The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 339
background, appear to be merely sketched. The light pencil and the fine colouring of Paul Vero-nese, are visble in all the figures. The execution is, per-haps, not sufficiently laboured ; but the species of negli-gence that is remarkable, operates to its advantage in CHRIST CARRIED TO THE TOMB.… … THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA REGNAULT. Cleopatra was the daughter of Ptolemy-Auletesking of Egypt. This prince when dying, left the crownto the elder born of the two sexes, with an order that theyshould marry each other, according to the custom of hisfamily; but Ptolemy-Dionysius, the brother of…
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