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    Richard Westall

    English painter (1765-1836)

    Richard Westall was an English painter and illustrator of portraits, historical and literary events, best known for his portraits of Byron. He was also Queen Victoria's drawing master. Wikipedia

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    In Richard Westall oil painting, The Sword of Damocles, it depicts an ancient moral parable told by the Roman philosopher Cicero dating back to 45 B.C..Cicero's interpretation of the tale focuses on Dionysius II, an authoritarian king who was once controlled Sicilian city of Syracuse during the 4 th and 5 th centuries B.C. He made more enemies than friends while ruling despite all his money ...
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    George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall, 1813. Westall was the more successful of two half-brothers (both sons of a Benjamin Westall, from Norwich) who both became painters.His younger half-brother was William Westall (1781-1850), a much-travelled landscape painter.. Born on 2 January 1765 in Reepham near Norwich (where he was baptised at All Saints on 13 January in the same ...
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    Damocles [a] is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", [1] [2] an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power. Damocles was a courtier in the court of Dionysius I of Syracuse, [3] a ruler of Syracuse, Sicily, Magna Graecia, during the classical Greek era.
  5. ackland.emuseum.com

    The Sword of Damocles. Artist Richard Westall (British, 1765-1836) Culture British. Date 1812. Medium oil on canvas. Dimensions 51 3/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 1/4 in. (130 x 103 x 8.3 cm) frame: 63 1/2 x 52 3/4 in. (161.3 x 134 cm) Classifications paintings. Credit Line Ackland Fund. Object number 79.10.1.
  6. introtofictionf18.web.unc.edu

    The Sword of Damocles was painted by a English artist Richard Westall in 1812. According to the story told by Cicero, Damocles was a man in court that lusted over the kings life and showered him with compliments and flattery. However, the king had a tyrannical reputation and didn't have many friends, so he lived in constant fear.
  7. introtofictionf18.web.unc.edu

    Painting Damocles in a red robe just like the one Dionysius is painted in, suggests the aspect of the story where they switch roles for one day. With this in mind, Westall also places women servants holding luxurious foods and dinnerware serving Damocles as a way of showing the audience the lifestyle of how a king lives.
  8. Richard Westall (British, 1765 -1836) The Sword of Damocles, 1812 Oil on canvas 51 3/16 x 40 9/16 x 3 1/4 in. Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ackland Fund, 79.10.1 . In the nineteenth century, educated Europeans read the story of the sword of Damocles in ancient accounts from Greece and Rome.
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    Hope commissioned a larger version of the Damocles painting from Westall. It is this larger version from 1812 that hangs in the nineteenth-century gallery of the Ackland Art Museum. The Sword of Damocles is typical of the Neoclassical style. It was painted in the same year that Lord Elgin brought the marble sculptures from the Parthenon in ...
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    Media in category "The Sword of Damocles (Richard Westall)" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Damocles-WestallPC20080120-8842A.jpg 803 × 1,024; 239 KB. The Sword of Damocles, 1812.jpg 473 × 600; 268 KB. WestallDamocles.JPG 872 × 1,096; 918 KB.
  11. artpaintingartist.org

    The Sword of Damocles: Painter Name: Richard Westall: Completion Date: 1812: Technique: Oil: Material: Canvas: Current Location: Private collection: Tags: British • English • Lady • Man • Oldman • Sword. Paintings Created by Richard Westall. The Power of Venus by Richard Westall;
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