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...natural as two lumps in his cup of tea. The year was 1782, and there was Elkanah Watson, 24, a Massachusetts-born merchant visiting London with 100 guineas to burn. As he dined with the famous expatriate painter John Singleton Copley, Watson resolved to spend the money on a portrait of himself. Together they decided to include in the painting, as Watson wrote, "a ship, bearing to America the intelligence of the acknowledgment of Independence, with a sun just rising upon the stripes of the union, streaming from her gaff...
...exhibition, "Three Centuries of American Painting," ranges from Copley to Calder, from a Stuart portrait of Washington (circa 1796) to a circa tomorrow Rauschenberg. So who had eyes for Art? For the 260 preview-and-dinner guests, all lovingly culled by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum from Who's Most, the picture to remember was Lady Bird Johnson, wearing a black faille strapless gown for the occasion. It was fastened, as the New York Times was constrained to note, "with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait...
...last portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike opens to the public at 3 p.m. today, allowing drivers to go from Copley Square in Boston to Rock Island, III, on expressways. There will be a ceremony followed by a motorcades...
Artists of loftier vocation expatriated themselves to study in England and to absorb the classic mastery of Renaissance portraiture. John Singleton Copley was one such, but before he left U.S. shores, he had already put together a masterly portrait gallery of some of his fellow Bostonians. His Portrait of Nathaniel Hard, a famed silversmith and engraver, stares back at the observer with a keen, curious, probing intensity that is uncannily lifelike. As John Adams said of Copley's portraits: "You can scarcely help discoursing with them, asking questions and receiving answers...
...Pride. Mrs. Kennedy has not yet by any means acquired all the paintings she wants for the White House. The collection includes no John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer or Thomas Eakins. But the paintings already acquired constitute a priceless national heritage...