Identifier: generalbiographyv2pt1aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: "Paulus Brillius Antverp" Paul Bril Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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employedin the Vatican. In this seat of the arts, Paulimproved his taste, and perfected his colouring;,so that on the death of his brother in 1584, hewas employed by popeSixtus V. to go on with hisworks in the Vatican. He soon surpassed his bro-ther, and attained a high reputation. ClementVIII. continued to employ him in the Vatican,and often passed whole days in seeing himpaint. His manner was light, soft, and ele-gant, his distances well marked, and his fi-gures beautiful. The green tint prevails in hispieces. In his old age he painted small land-scapes upon copper, most higlily finished. Hedied at Rome in 1626, aged seventy. The greatest of his works are in the papal!palace, and in the churches of Rome, consist-ing of scripture pieces of the landscape kind,views of convents and country seats, &c. Hissmaller pictures are met with in most consi-derable cabinets. A great number of hisworks have been engraved. DArgenville Viesdes Peintres.— A. BRINDLEY, James. The rapid improve-
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B R I ( 301 ) B R I ments In the arts and manufactures of this king-dom during the last fifty yL-; rs h;ivc called fornew arrangements in the disposition of men andcapital ; and these again have created or en-foixed wants scarcely attended to before. Newsituations have been chos n, remote from the in-dolence, the dissipation,and the narrow policy,ofcorporate towns, human hands have operatedwith incomparably greater effect by the aid ofmachines. Wind, water, animal strength, afldthe power of steam, are applied as first moverswhere men formerly laboured ; roads, rivers,and navigable canals, have been made or im-proved for the carriage of raw materials andfinished goods; and in a word, the skilful pro-gress of national industry has, by these andother means, greatly overbalanced tlie effects ofa public expenditure, whicli, during the periodalluded to, has, for its ma;^nitude, and perhapsits prodigality, far exceeded whatever was knownin former times. In the infancy of manufac-tures, one m

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