gervoyse

Updated: July 10, 2026

There is an old, fat portrait of Gervoyse Holles, in a buff-coat, a coarse, hoggish, yet manly man. The painter is unknown; but I honor him, and Gervoyse Holles too, for one was willing to be truly rendered, and the other dared to do it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

There is an old, fat portrait of Gervoyse Holles, in a buff-coat, a coarse, hoggish, yet manly man. The painter is unknown; but I honor him, and Gervoyse Holles too, for one was willing to be truly rendered, and the other dared to do it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete