Portrait of a gentleman in armor

"... an excellent painter of portraits" thus begins the biography of Gio Enrico Vaymer in the Genoese lives of painters, sculptors, and architects that Carlo Giuseppe Ratti wrote based on information provided directly by the painter's son "I am debtor of his kindness present news please send me; "[P.182] His first teacher was the father Endryck Vaymer, carver of Kiel, who instructed him in drawing and who later entrusted it to a" Painter of mediocre skill called schiena. But as the child came in the state of knowing what the back wanted: he took his leave from it, and turned to more experienced Director "[p.17