Word: famously
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...grand challenge cup race, to be rowed on the Thames during the second week of July. In this event the American collegians will meet the best crews of England, France, and any other country that may aspire to the aquatic championship of the world and will include the famous Leander eight, composed exclusively of the best oars of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. This will be the first American eight-oared crew to visit England and row in England's greatest regatta at Henley, although several four-oared amateur crews of this country have in past years competed in England with...
...melodramatic side of the play that appeals the most to lovers of Shakespeare. It is to them a work of genius, upon which famous illustrators have for hundreds of years been engaged, and which generations of great actors have interpreted. It is to be ranked with but three other works of Shakespeare: Othello, Macbeth and King Lear. When considering these plays in relation to Hamlet, one point of contrast immediately presents itself. In Hamlet it is not the hero of the play who acts and keeps you in suspense. He is the one unhappy soul hurried along by the fates...
...Square. The Duke of Richmond came to sit for his portrait. The picture was a brilliant success and in twenty years Romney was the acknowleged rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1782 his friend Charles Greville brought Emma Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton, to sit for her portrait. Of this famous woman Romney painted not less than twenty-three portraits in various poses. His picture of her as a spinner is his masterpiece. It is a miracle of simplicity, soft color, and bewitching grace...
...Joshua Reynolds was born in 1723 at Plympton in Devonshire. When eighteen years of age he was apprenticed to Hudson, a famous portrait painter. This relation lasting but two years, he set up for himself and met with considerable success. During this time he formed a warm acquaintance with Admiral Vicomte Keppel. He accompanied the latter in his trip to the Mediterranean. He carefully studied the galleries of Rome, Florence and Venice. Three years later he returned to England and rented a studio in London...
...behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...