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Yet, if not absolutely founded on its ruins, at any rate in some measure following its example, we soon find record of the rise of a similar institution. One Sir Balthazar Gerbier, without Government aid or countenance, but acting entirely on his own responsibility, had opened an Academy 'on Bednall-green without Aldgate. This was probably in the year 1649.
Portraits of Gerbier were painted by Dobson the picture was sold for £44 at the sale of Betterton the actor and by Vandyke. The work by Vandyke also contained portraits of Gerbier's family, and was purchased in Holland by command of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and brought to Leicester House.
Williams, to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year or two, coming to almost L4. At the coffee-house in Exchange Alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir Balth. Gerbier.
Williams, to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year or two, coming to almost L4. At the coffee-house in Exchange Alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir Balth. Gerbier.
The Duchess of Buckingham wrote to her husband in Spain, 'I pray you, if you have any idle time, sit to Gerbier for your picture, that I may have it well done in time. After the accession of Charles, it appears that Gerbier was employed in Flanders to negotiate privately a treaty with Spain, in which Rubens was commissioned to act on the part of the Infanta; the business ultimately bringing the great painter to England.
Sir Balthazar Gerbier, architect and painter, 'excellent in either branch, says a biographer, had led a somewhat curious life. In a pamphlet published in Paris, in 1646, addressed 'to all men that loves Truth, singularly rich, thanks to the French printers, in blunders, orthographic and grammatical, Sir Balthazar gives some account of his family and himself.
And meanwhile a diamond-cutter was replacing the purloined stones by others, matching them so closely that no man should be able to say which were the originals and which the copies. Buckingham and Gerbier between them guided the work.
The two clever men got through with their talk, nothing unfortunate happened, and Rubens got off to Spain where he laid the result of his talk with Gerbier before the Spanish powers. He was given a studio in Philip's palace, where he carried on his art and his diplomacy.
So one day, many months after his departure, she begged Gerbier as La Rochefoucauld tells us to journey to London and bear the Duke a trifling memento of her a set of diamond studs. That love-token for it amounted to no less Gerbier conveyed to England, and delivered to the Duke.
Significant as are the instructions of Gerbier, Lassels, and others of this period, there are some directions for an education abroad which are more interesting than these products of professional tutors instructions written by one who was himself the perfect gentleman of his day.
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