Word: gainsborough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Josnua Reynolds weightily pronounced blue to be unsuitable as a prevailing color in paintings. Almost simultaneously Artist Thomas Gainsborough produced his famed Blue Boy, intentionally or not a complete confutation of haughty Artist Reynolds...
Many another Englishman faced an esthetic dilemma as he thought of the rosy native graces depicted by Reynolds and Gainsborough. Several wrote to the newspapers. Why did the Dutchmen choose such ugly models? Were they ugly? Last week Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American, agreeing for once with Britishers, echoed the questions and said of Artist Haus Holbein's Eve: "The mother of the human race . . . appears to be afflicted with adenoids for she is certainly breathing through her mouth...
When Admiral Lord Nelson created by his heroic death a stencil for millions of Victorian lithographs, he is said also to have left desolate the most beautiful woman of his time. Lady Hamilton's white face and big eyes, painted by Romney and Gainsborough, were so widely admired that her elderly husband investigated no rumored infidelities "for fear they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High...
English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...
...which nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed...