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Scottish painters; a critical study (1888)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London: Seeley & Co. · leaf 150

An illustration from Scottish painters; a critical study, 1888, leaf 150 — The masterpiece of that period was, perhaps, the Queen of the Swords, which had so great a success at Paris in 1878. Two years later there appeared at the Academy a picture which at once raised its author's fame to a higher level. This was the Napolem on Board the Bellerophon — the conqueror of… … NAPOLEON ON THE BELLEROl'HON. FROM THE PICTURE BY W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A. as The Chaltcnge, to a much higher expression, he evinced a creative power as yet unsur- passed, for his figure of Napoleon is a creation. The solidity of the pose, the simplicity of the lines, the breadth of the masses of…

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