Word: izard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role in society, children were dressed like miniature adults. And since all good Calvinists looked upon wealth as a sign that they were among God's elect, those clothes were frequently expensive, ornate garments in the latest European styles. In Jeremiah Theus' 1753 formal portrait of Ralph Izard, for instance, the young man wears an immaculate gentleman's outfit, complete with ruffled shirt and silver-trimmed tricorn hat. All of twelve years old, he is painted as lord of the manor, stiffly gesturing toward his property...
...Ralph Izard was, by prevailing American standards, a work of sophistication. The image of the South Carolinian discoursing to his wife upon the meaning of a drawing from the antique is almost poignant; there cannot have been too many couples like them back home. Copley was a brilliant recorder of the human face, the female face especially. The portraits of the middle-aged women he painted in the 1760s are so dense and assured, warts and all, that one may well prefer them to the more florid exercises in the manner of Gainsborough that Copley resorted to when, in London...
...like pros. Dennis Crowley mades an equisitely tormented Lord Chancellor, Susan W . Van Colt and Douglas Morgan as the straight leads have a beautiful pair of voices, and Sallyu Stunkel plays the Queen of the fairies in a style pleasantly reminiscent of Glinda, the Good Witch in The W izard...