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...commanding portraits: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Anthony Van Dyke's Mountjoy Blount, Earl of Newport. Indeed, the entire exhibit is heavily weighted with portraiture and landscapes. In one corner, the viewer can stare at the grayed elegance of a Gainsborough; in another, he is lulled by the peaceful countryside of a Constable. There is also a fine sampling of George Stubbs, including two huge works-both of lions variously attacking a horse and stag-that dominate one court. A large, dramatic Henry Fuseli painting, Dido on the Funeral Pyre-all swooning...
Feminist songwriter, pianist and singer Margie Adam appears Friday and Sunday at 8 p.m. in Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St. in Boston. Tickets are $3, $4.50 and $6 at the New Words Bookstore in Cambridge or the Jordan Hall box office. Both concerts are fundraisers for Sojourner, a feminist newspaper...
...killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg. He had never in his life looked at a work of art as art, and the first thing that struck him was "that someone had thought these things out and made them. Behind each of them...
...home. Copley was a brilliant recorder of the human face, the female face especially. The portraits of the middle-aged women he painted in the 1760s are so dense and assured, warts and all, that one may well prefer them to the more florid exercises in the manner of Gainsborough that Copley resorted to when, in London, he wanted to rival West...
Virginal and Dense. But for all that, Constable still wanted to paint landscapes like an old master in the line of Gainsborough, Ruysdael and Rubens...