The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 345
ed him into an extraordinary error.Being anxious to procure the figure of Alexander, theysent him, it is said, an antique medal of Minerva, on thereverse of which appeared the name of the Conqueror.Le Brun copied these features in his picture of thefamily of Darius, and consequently gave to his… … A WOUNDED ROMAN SOLDIER. DROUAIS. This composition is from the pencil of an artist whopromises by his talents to reflect lustre on the career hehas chosen : the subject is at once simple and interesting. Having received a wound which is likely to deprivehim of life, this soldier appears to look…
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