The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 373
rect in point of drawing, and defective in per-spective, which induces us to believe, that this is one ofthose works executed, in a great measure, by the disci-ples of Rubens, from his sketches, which he afterwardsretouched. In other respects, the three figures in theforeground, as well as the… … • THE FOUR PHILOSOPHERS. RUBENS. This picture, representing Grotius, Lipsius, Rubens,and Philip Rubens, his brother, is a monument of thefriendship by which Rubens was united to his brother,and to two celebrated characters who may be styled hiscountrymen; Lipsius being a native of Flanders,…
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