The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 3) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808)

PYRRHUS AT THE COURT OF GLAUTIAS.
A little time after, his enemies sent to demand him of
the King, Cassander having offered two hundred talents
for his surrender, but this Glautias refused; and as soon
as he had attained his twelfth year, he sent him with an
army into Epirus, where he remained secure,
Poussin, in one of his landscapes, admirably repre-
sented the flight of Pyrrhus to the Megarians ; and two
modern artists, of great celebrity—M. Vincent, professor
of the Academy of Painting, at Paris; and Mr. West,
President of the Royal Academy—have each depictured
the moment in which Pyrrhus implores the protection of
Glautias, These two compositions possess very signal
merit, and are remarkable for the beauty of their ex-
pressions, the happy disposition of the drapery, for free-
dom of execution, and strength of colouring.
The picture of Pyrrhus, one of the first pieces of M.
Vincent, the figures of which are of the natural size,
was exhibited at the Louvre a little time before the re-
volution, and was wrought in tapestry by command of
Louis the Sixteenth,