The Duke of Shrewsbury and Roman Art
In 1701, writes L.R. Betcherman, a leading member of the Whig Junto retired to Rome for the sake of his health.
L.R. Betcherman
Balthazar Gerbier in Seventeenth Century Italy
L.R. Betcherman describes how, early in the seventeenth century, an English royal favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, despatched his Dutch agent to Italy to form a sumptuous art-collection.