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...sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
...Approval (Gainsborough-English Films), an English comedy starring Beatrice Lillie, may or may not win general U.S. approval. It is pleasant at all times, and very funny in spots, but nine-tenths of it is enjoyable in proportion to your pleasure in the cliches of drawing-room dialogue, setting, character, gesture and costume of a departed...
Primitives & Preferences. Among the English paintings in the Providence show were familiar Raeburn, Romney, Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits in the grand manner. Also on view were works by a famed trio of 18th Century New Englanders: John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull - all of whom were influenced by English styles. But the surprise of the show was a group of little-known early American portraits, sound and penetrating studies by men who followed no tradition, who painted people as they saw them...
...fellow officers in the American Army during the Revolution; 2) from known movements of Lafayette and Trumbull, the Officer must have been painted after Trumbull returned from Europe-and the Officer shows a treatment of lighting on forehead and hair which distinctly imitates a style of English Portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, who was showing in London at the time; 3) typical Trumbull traits in the Officer are straight-line highlights on buttons, the peculiar method of coloring the rectangular collar of the uniform...
...public-utilities developer, a man who was wont to tread on rare Tabriz rugs and drink from cut glass goblets said to have been fingered by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Some of McCall's paintings bore such signatures as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Thomas Gainsborough. But certain Memphis newsmen were not impressed. They called on fastidious Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Valentiner's thudding opinion: the City of Memphis had been stung...