But the ci-devant Beau Arthur considered every sort of work that was suggested to him very far beneath him; he thought that he would degrade himself by becoming a copyist or a minstrel, and he was not ashamed to borrow a hundred sous when he knew that he could not repay them.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
So valuable have his paintings become, that he has long been a prey to the forger and the clever copyist.
"Constable"
C. Lewis Hind
He became copyist to and collaborator with Holbach and conveyed his works to Amsterdam to be printed.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler