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...Painted for TIME by Douglas Chandor...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the Hoover Cabinet, the first panel of which is published this week (see front cover), Painter Douglas Chandor of London, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C. is like Author Chesterton's Noah?everything "on the largest scale;" that is, in the grand manner...
...emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King George called Painter Chandor to him to say it was an excellent likeness. The Prince was so pleased he had Painter Chandor do him again, with arms folded, reflective, in his study at St. James's Palace. Also in 1921, his first year out of art school, Painter Chandor had his portrait of Sir Edward Marshall Hall "on the line" at the Royal Academy...
...Britain's prime ministers were assembled in London for the Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Not without much shrewd wangling and entirely "on his own," Painter Chandor got them all to sit together for a monster canvas which, when finished, was given a place of honor in the Government's pavilion at Wembley and later hung permanently in the Colonial Office. This piece of work entrenched Painter Chandor, at 27, in the very front rank of his profession...
...went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President, Vice President, the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the Attorney-General and Postmaster-General...