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Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) was the name of a number of different artists in ancient Greece and Rome:

• Alexander, a painter, one of whose productions was said by Johann Joachim Winckelmann to be extant, painted on a marble tablet which bears his name.
• Alexander, a son of king Perseus of Macedon, who was a skillful metalsmith.
• Marcus Lollius Alexander, an engraver of gems, whose name occurs in an inscription in Doni.

References

1. Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 123.
2. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, vol. ii. p. 47, v. p. 120, ed. Eiselein
3. Plutarch, Aemil. Paul. 37
4. Giovanni Battista Doni, Inscriptiones Antiquae, Florence (1731), p. 319, No. 14.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexander". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 123.

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