The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 267
nified than that ofthe celestial missionary, is ably drawn. The colouring isfresh, harmonious, and brilliant; and the tree, the water,and the sky, are executed with great freedom of pencil.Rubens appears to have painted the fish with peculiarcare: he has perfectly represented the rich and… … -. TndoniPiUflinked}iy Vcmjcr.Hbod & SharpcFffuJoy. iS,->9 THE DECOLLATION OF ST. JOHN THEBAPTIST. mUBENS. The scene in the interior of a prison passes by torcklight. The body of St. John the Baptist is extended onthe ground. The executioner has just dissevered thehead, which he presents to…
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