Word: copley
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...early greats of American painting-such men as John Copley, Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West-were influenced chiefly by British masters. But with the winning of independence, Americans found new confidence in home talent. Untrained artists began proudly advertising themselves as "self-taught," and for the next century native portraitists, landscapists and genre painters did a brisk business. They were simple, humble men, who seldom signed their work. Many hit the road each spring, offering their services at farmhouses from Maine to Georgia...
...beginning he was invited to many socially prominent homes, but according to one person who knew him, Schine alienated many of his hosts by pulling his "telephone trick." This consisted of phoning from his car and saying "This is G. David Schine, I'm now driving through Copley Square, could you direct me a little further" and then later "This is G. David Schine, I'm now at Kenmore Square. Could you give me more directions please...
...girl paused at the bell desk. The fat girl stumbled, and fell sprawling on the floor when she was thirty feet from them. "Oh," she panted, "I'm terribly sorry. I thought you was someone else, sir." The man and the girl walked out into Copley Square...
...François Malepart de Beaucourt, who painted the Negro Slave, was Canada's first artist of international caliber. Trained in France, he developed a slick and brisk technique which well suited his obvious purpose: to charm. Copley and Stuart, American contemporaries, were deeper students of character, but not of paint...
Divorced. By Pamela Brown, 35, auburn-haired British actress of stage (The Lady's Not for Burning) and screen (Tales of Hoffmann): Peter Copley, 37, British character actor; after eleven years of marriage, no children; in London...