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...Adventures of Tartu (M.G.M.-Gainsborough) enlists Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson and a cast like a jeweler's tray in the shiniest spy thriller since Night Train (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941). Many expert British melodramas baffle U.S. audiences because they are too exotically British. This one, directed in Britain by M.G.M.'s Harold S. Bucquet, is as intelligible to Americans as to Englishmen...
Thereafter Decker had plenty of sitters, collected plenty of fat fees. He also instituted a point system, rationing only one portrait to each subject. But the sitter was permitted to choose the famous painting he wished to be dubbed into. Harpo Marx was painted as Gainsborough's Blue Boy, Charlie McCarthy as Hals's Laughing Cavalier, W. C. Fields as Queen Victoria. Prices for these efforts sometimes ran up to $1,000. Says Decker (who suffers from ulcers and diabetes): "An artist doesn't earn a living until after he's dead. People buy his stuff...
...Book With more painted yardage of canvas than any country in the world, the U.S. now possesses 123 of Cézanne's 1,155 oil paintings; 52 of El Greco's 115; 18 of Vermeer's 37; 83 of Gainsborough's 300; 34 of Velasquez' 92; 143 of Rembrandt's 988; 87 of Romney's 429; 106 of Van Dyck...
...Figures of Gainsborough, El Greco, Vermeer's outputs are approximate...
...Severance's palace had come: Sir Joshua Reynolds' idyllic portrait of The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs of the Cleveland museum...