 The first Duke granted lodgings at York House to the painter Orazio Gentileschi, and to Sir Balthazar Gerbier, diplomat and sometime painter.Although the Duchess tried to expel the latter after the Duke's assassination in 1628, it was in Gerbier's lodgings that Peter Paul Rubens sojourned during his visit to London the following year.An inventory of the contents of York House drawn up in 1635 is a valuable source for scholars both for the light it sheds on one of the handful of great art collections formed in the circle of Charles I, and for the furnishings of a fashionable early Stuart nobleman's residence.