The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 309
always happy; the hairs of the head graceful andexpressive, the draperies broad and well dispersed. Hismanner of painting is perhaps the finest that can be con-ceived : every thing appears to live in his productions.It is related, that some peasants seeing him one dayseated before a picture which… … VITELLIUS. Vitellius, the son of a father who was renderedillustrious by three consulships, was one of the favoritesof Nero. He passed his youth in the island of Capreae,and was educated, in a manner, in the midst of everyspecies of crime. After having successively been pontiff,sedile, and…
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