Tag: Reginald Arthur
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s Pharaoh’s Daughter, with Footnotes, #184
Estimate for 30,000 – 50,000 GBP in July 2016 Pharaoh’s Daughter appears to depict the un-named heroine of Exodus who discovered the infant Moses among the bulrushes when she was fetching water from the Nile. It was a popular subject in the nineteenth century and the most famous depiction of her was painted by Lawrence…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s The Death of Cleopatra, with Footnotes. #186
Once Mark Anthony had been defeated at the battle of Actium (30 B.C.), and fallen on his sword, Cleopatra herself commited suicide to avoid capture by Octavian. An asp, or Egyptian cobra, was smuggled to her in a basket of figs and she died from its bite. According to Egyptian legend, death from snakebite ensured…
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