text:  The following anecdote is delightful:-- "Whilst at Antwerp Sir Joshua had taken particular notice of a young man of the name of De Gree who had exhibited some considerable talents as a painter: his father was a tailor; and he himself had been intended for some clerical office but as it is said by a late writer having formed a different opinion of his religion than was intended from the books put into his hand by an Abbe who was his patron it was discovered that he would not do for a priest and the Abbe therefore articled him to Gerrards of Antwerp