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The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)

London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 247

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is impartial branchof his art, has perhaps produced nothing in its kind tobe compared to the figure of St. Stephen. A piousresignation, and a celestial pleasure, are depictured inhis face, suffused with blood, and already covered withthe paleness of death. The group of his faithful followers,who… … THE ENTRY OF ALEXANDER INTOBABYLON. LE BRUN. After having subjugated the whole of Greece,Alexander employed the resources he was possessed ofin the conquest of Persia. Followed solely by- 36,000men, he passed the Hellespont in the year 334, beforeJ. C.—visited the ruins of Troy—arrived upon the…

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