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...beautifully exemplifies the powerful Baroque dramatization, the juxtaposition of rich golden browns with cool tones of blue, and the intricate articulation of the detail which characterize the mythological paintings of his early years. The rest of the Rembrandts are mediocre at best. The two portraits of Joannes Elison and Maria Bocknelle are flat and uninteresting. The Portrait of Young Titus has gained wider acclaim from its price than from its quality. This washed-out portrait--which fetched $2.25 million may even be misnamed. It is the only painting which portrays Rembrandt's son with grey-blue eyes, and the facial...

Author: By Jonathan D. Fineberg, | Title: The Age of Rembrandt | 2/14/1967 | See Source »

...Boston the Museum of Fine Arts announced its new double acquisition, matching portraits of the Rev. Johannes Elison and his wife, Maria Bockenolle, of Norwich, England, painted in 1634 during Rembrandt's early years as a successful portrait painter in Amsterdam. Boston Museum trustees used up the whole of their five-year-old William K. Richardson fund to pay for the pair of life-sized portraits, largest single purchase in the museum's 80-year-old history. The price: just under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rembrandt for $500,000 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Boston Museum Director Perry Rathbone feels the money was well spent. Not only are the two paintings the only full-length portraits by Rembrandt now in the U.S., but, says Rathbone, "they seem particularly appropriate for Boston. The Rev. Johannes Elison and his wife were the same kind of Puritans that first came to Massachusetts, very Elder Brewsterish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rembrandt for $500,000 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York, will get the Louis C. Elison lectures on music under way tomorrow and Thursday evenings. His first subject will be "The Materials of Music." The lectures are scheduled for 8:15 o'clock in Paine Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Briefs of Today's News | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

Freshman 150s: Robinson bow, Schell 2, Moot 3, Elison 4, Jagoe 5, Locke 6, Wilson 7, Cunningham stroke, Olsen coxswain...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Crews, Baseball Team See Action Today | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

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