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Look what Martin Fennelly Antiques has put up for sale on-line: <br/><br/> <a href='http://www.fennelly.net/Item.aspx?id=19315'>138 Daniel’s Answer to the King - Briton Rivière - Large Framed Engraving</a><br/><br/><img src='https://file.4pm.ie/866/b1676bfe.jpg.144x95.png' alt='138 Daniel’s Answer to the King - Briton Rivière - Large Framed Engraving'/><br/><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">'<em>Daniel&rsquo;s Answer to the King'</em> 1890. Briton Rivi&egrave;re (1840&ndash;1920)</span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> was a British artist who specialized in painting animals. Rivi&egrave;re meticulously studied wildlife to perfect his compositions. He attended dissections at the London Zoological Gardens and kept the &ldquo;body of a fine lioness&rdquo; in his studio. In this work, he paints a scene from the biblical story of Daniel, a Jewish official in the service of the Persian king Darius</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Darius had issued an edict that no man should pray to any God or man other Darius himself. Daniel defied the ruling and continued to pray toward Jerusalem, so Darius convicted him and threw him to the lions. The next day Daniel was still alive and unharmed. Rivi&egrave;re shows Daniel with his back turned on the lions in relaxed contemplation, eyes raised in deference to God. Here Daniel prefers to face death rather than forsake God. This<strong> Large hand coloured engraving</strong> is truly magical and gets admiring glances from all that visit my Gallery.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Plate Size of Image Width</span></span></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> 36&quot; (91.5cm) <strong>Height</strong> 25&quot; (63.5cm)&nbsp;</span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> &euro;850</span></strong></span></span> </p> </p>