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...week Bridget Rose Dugdale, 33-year-old daughter of a British insurance tycoon, was in jail-again. The blonde, Oxford-educated million-heiress was accused of masterminding and directing the largest art theft in recent history: last month's looting of 19 masterpieces, including paintings by Goya and Gainsborough, from the Irish manor home of Mining Heir Sir Alfred Beit.* The art works, valued at $20 million, were recovered intact two weeks ago in a remote cottage in County Cork, on the Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police...
Sidewalk Sam paints the town, or at least the sidewalks, when the weather permits and the mood takes him. People passing a guy who kneels in the street and chalks reproductions of Gainsborough on the pavement may wonder what he's doing down there, but to Sam it's all very clear. "I'm bringing art to the people instead of making them go to dusty old museums to see it," he says. "I'm taking painting out of the hands of the elitist art bureaucracy and putting it back where it belongs...
...Motley's Cardinal Richelieu, silently suffering from constant migraine as he tries to hold together both himself and the entire French state, could easily have stepped out of a painting by Goya, and Charles Smith, with just the slightest trace of foppishness under his dirty black hair, looks like Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" gone syphilitic...
...neither Gainsborough's grace nor Reynolds' robust authority. Yet as much as any painter of his time, Joseph Wright of Derby captured the peculiar spirit of 18th century England. On the one hand, there was the century's sense of discovery and pride in scientific investigation, which resulted in a wealth of tools and inventions and, in due course, the Industrial Revolution. On the other, there was its almost mystic appreciation of nature. A rare exhibition of Wright's paintings, drawn entirely from the Paul Mellon Collection and currently on display at Washington's National...
...Thomas Gainsborough, for example, is represented most tellingly by a flamboyant "fancy picture" (a fantasy) of a sleeping country girl. John Constable's Study for "A Boat Passing a Lock" illustrates through its snapshot organization and cavalier brushwork his influence on Delacroix, Millet and Corot. Hardly less impressive are five canvases by the provincial Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97), which range from a firelit Iron Forge to the protosurrealism of The Old Man and Death...