Oratio Gentileschi, pictor [art original]Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist[between 1720 and 1756?]engPortrait of Orazio Gentileschi (1563-639), Pisan-born painter, whose style was influenced by Caravaggio after they met in 1600. Gentileschi moved to London in 1626 at the invitation of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, the favourite and chief minister of Charles I from whom he received a pensionTitle from inscription in ink below image.Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 113.George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.