• Francis Hayman, Finding of the Infant Moses, 1746. Hayman used contemporary reports of Egyptian antiquities to create an "authentic" atmosphere for his setting of the Bible story.

Hayman used contemporary reports of Egyptian antiquities to create an "authentic" atmosphere for his setting of the Bible story.

From The creation of color in eighteenth-century Europe by Sarah Lowengard

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  • European: 1400-1800
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