Brewer's: Painting

It is said that Apelles, being at a loss to delineate the foam of Alexander's horse, dashed his brush at the picture in despair, and did by accident what he could not accomplish by art.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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