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Painted in lace jabots, powdered wigs and colorful velvet jackets, the 52 on display at the Tate looked boyishly innocent, boyishly arrogant. Their number included four future First Lords of the Treasury, and 21 future earls and dukes. One of history's most famed old Etonians, William Ewart Gladstone, was not present; he was not enough of a standout at Eton. Among those who were...
...Lace & Medals. Three out of four Brockhurst paintings (an estimated 600) have been of women, although "women are much harder to paint because of their subtler, less clearly defined features." Unlike Britons, "American men are still embarrassed to commission their own portraits for their homes and families." Most Brockhurst portraits of U.S. males are for board rooms and offices...
Duchess of Windsor, which was painted for the Duke in 1939. An average Brockhurst portrait takes about eight hour-and-a-quarter sittings, plus extra time for hands, backgrounds, diamonds, chiffon evening gowns, lace and medals. Because "she had an unusually mobile face and looked different every time she came to sit," it took Brockhurst twelve sittings to paint the Duchess...
...usual on a Marine jump-off, the leathernecks were not losing any time. Corporal Ardrick Hammon of Alton, Ill., radioman for an artillery observer, slogged his way north, so loaded with fighting and communications gear that he could stoop to tie the flapping lace of one combat boot. He felt a tap on his shoulder, looked into a lean face under a pile cap with three stars and a paratrooper's silver badge...
...taking over his country. Two of Masaryk's favorite sheepskin jackets, trimmed with fluffy white wool and decorated with black and red sprays of brilliantly embroidered flowers, plus a felt coat and a pillow cover, fetched ?32. Other clothing, including a pair of shoes, three net scarves with lace borders, a child's white skirt and bodice and a lace shawl, brought the total sale...