The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 165
he handof his wife, surrounded by his eight children. The air ofsatisfaction depictured on his countenance, proves thatit was in his domestic enjoyments that he placed hisfelicity. Isaac Van Ostade, his brother and pupil, who diedwhen young, was an artist of considerable eminence;some of his… … ANTONINUS PIUS. The Emperor Antoninus, surnamed the Plow, wasborn at Lanuvium, in the year 86. He was, at first, Pro-consul of Asia; and, in 120, appointed Consul, when hedisplayed that justice, goodness, and wisdom which ren-dered his memory consecrated by the friends of huma-nity. Adrian, who…
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