Word: holbein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
Blake (B) defeated Kent (D), 15-12, 18-16, 15-7. Williams (B) defeated Holbein (D), 15-11, 15-17, 12-15, 15-10, 18-15. Crandall (D) defeated Wood (H), 15-4, 12-15, 15-0, 15-9, Shaw (B) defeated Turkevich (D), 15-9, 6-15, 10-15, 15-10, 15-13. Eaton (D) won by default...
...religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
Director Pratt was especially excited about a drawing which he is sure is the original study by Hans Holbein the Younger for his famed Progress of Riches, painted after 1532. Another discovery was a set of seven grotesque heads which had been attributed to Holbein. "I'll stake my reputation," said Director Pratt, "that these . . . are the work of Leonardo da Vinci...
...other country do portraitists flour ish as in England. This has been true ever since the German Holbein and later the Flemish Van Dyke came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. Richly represented was the capable if uninspired work of British official portraitists. Among the best was Gerald F. Kelly's picture of the late famed Provost of Eton and writer of immortal ghost stories, Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James...