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...resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided to import his wife and five children from Germany. They came. The five offspring were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce the mother retired to troubled Europe. But she left the children in this country, in the motherless care of a father, because at some future time when she returns to America-in a Dutch quota-there might...
...Antwerp, where Rubens lived 300 years ago, has added to its immense collection of the master's works a painting depicting his conception of the Roman philosopher, Seneca...
Authorities declare that only two etchings ever proceeded from Rubens' hand. One of them was a head of Seneca, now belonging to the British Museum. It was at first thought that the Seneca acquired by the city of Antwerp was the famous etching, but subsequent brief despatches indicate that it is a painting discovered at Riga. The price paid was only...
...Antwerp's great Rubens treasure is the trio hung in her Cathedral: The Descent from the Cross, The Elevation of the Cross, The Assumption...
...Antwerp which gave Rubens his two beautiful wives, Isabella Brant and Helena Fourment; and, although Rubens' male line is extinct, more than 100 great families of Belgium and the rest of Europe claim descent from him on the distaff side...