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 | Alexander Roslin is the portrait painter with an incredible ability to realistically express such things as velvet, silk or a woman’s powdered complexion. |
| After just one year in Paris, Roslin was admitted to the art academy, which was very unusual for a foreign artist. |
| He was one of the most highly praised portrait painters of that time, and many went to Paris specifically to be painted by Roslin ("le Suédois"). |
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Encyclopedia: Alexander I of Russia (10363 words) |
| Alexander, in fact, who, without being consciously tyrannical, possessed in full measure the tyrant's characteristic distrust of men of ability and independent judgment, lacked also the first requisite for a reforming sovereign: confidence in his people; and it was this want that vitiated such reforms as were actually realized. |
| Alexander's grandiose imagination was, however, more strongly attracted by the great questions of European politics than by attempts at domestic reform which, on the whole, wounded his pride by proving to him the narrow limits of absolute power. |
| Alexander, indeed, assisted Napoleon in the war of 1809, but he declared plainly that he would not allow the Austrian Empire to be crushed out of existence; and Napoleon complained bitterly of the inactivity of the Russian troops during the campaign. |
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