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...They exhibited together in Germany; a German critic bracketed them in the phrase "The Blue Four. *By Gainsborough (TIME, Jan. 26). †By Rembrandt...
Last week, came the announcement that Duveen Bros., famed London dealers, had bought six of them-three Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Van Dyke, a Frans Hals-for a sum said to approximate $1,500,000.* The portraits would be shipped to the U. S. "soon," said the Duveens...
...grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy." The portrait was painted at the time of her wedding. Seven years later, she sat to Gainsborough, and his portrait of her shows a woman whose face had taken on a pensive cast and her body a buxom rotundity-not quite so buxom, on the tactful canvas, as her contemporaries are known to have found...
...Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, his graceful chestnut mare. There was Sir James J. Shannon's portrait of the Princess Patricia, loaned by the Duke of Connaught. There were two Hogarths from The Rake's Progress series, two portraits by Reynolds, a romantic landscape by Gainsborough, a liberal representation of other 18th Century painters...
...John P. Morgan (Manhattan), Michael Friedsam (Manhattan), Henry E. Huntington (Los Angeles). In addition to the group of Rembrandts (probably the finest in the world), it contains several items acquired from the Morgan collection: some immensely valuable tapestries, two marbles by Donatello and paintings by such masters as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Romney, Constable, Holbein, Hals, Hobbema, Rubens, Millet, Corot, Daubigny, Dupre, Raphael, Tintoretto, Murillo, Goya, Velasquez...