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...Invisible. Around the turn of the 19th century Blake walked the streets of London as if invisible. The city was the portrait center of the world. Sir Joshua Reynolds was discoursing at the Royal Academy. Two expatriate Americans, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, plied an elegant trade. Blake meanwhile engraved and illustrated his own poems, and did illustrations for Milton, Dante and the Bible, working prodigiously to create some of the most magnificent and moving volumes ever made, which he sold, when he could sell them at all, for little more than a dinner...
...Included in the show: America's Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart...
George Shearing with quintet at Storyville in the Copley Square Hotel should be seen at the Sunday afternoon matinee (2-6:30), when the cover charge drops to two dollars...
Boston is historical in other ways; and it is best seen by walking. If you start at Copley Square and walk north, you will come eventually to the docks, and can cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground...
...first dated New England miniature (176-, the last number being obscure) was the small, three-dimensional self-portrait by John Singleton Copley, whose father-in-law owned some of the tea destroyed by the Boston Tea Party but whose locket cases were made by Tea-Dumper Paul Revere. The best American miniatures were made by Edward Greene Malbone, who with precision of draftsmanship and a unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted...