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DIED. ED FLANDERS, 60, actor; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Denny, California. Flanders' career included a string of Emmy-winning roles, notably that of Dr. Donald Westphall, the sane, soulful center of the surreally frantic St. Eligius Hospital in the 1980s TV series St. Elsewhere...
...Elsewhere (NBC, Tuesdays, 10-11 p.m. E.S.T.) it is unclear whether the show's St. Eligius Hospital in Boston-known, not always with affection, as St. Elsewhere-is located near Cheers, but it is a safe bet that its local police force could be the Hill Street Blues. NBC's Hill Street Blues, fractured and jazzy, seems to be stuck in a slough of self-admiration at the moment, but it set a style for television drama that St. Elsewhere is emulating with considerable success. The new show is populated by a floating rep company of actors, including...
...Expulsion from Paradise, Rembrandt's Portrait of Gérard de Lairesse, a Botticelli Annunciation. Others are perhaps less familiar - Ingres's Portrait of the Princesse de Broglie, one of the supreme moments in 19th century art; a Sassetta Temptation of St. Anthony; Petrus Christus' Saint Eligius and assorted Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern Europe. Among the drawings- which, at the time of Lehman's death, was one of the greatest collections in private hands in the world - are such rarities as two highly finished studies...
Staying clear of the High Renaissance masterpieces, the Lehmans on their regular summer trips to Europe sought out bargains to their taste, rapidly expanded the collection to include other Italian, Spanish, French and Flemish masters (including the prize of the collection, Petrus Christus' The Legend of St. Eligius and St. Godeberta, bought for $144,000 in 1921), filled it in with matching period pieces of Renaissance furniture, tapestries and majolica plates. Robert Lehman, who as a boy accompanied his parents on their art forays, exults: "It was a fascinating way to get an education...
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