Word: lintott
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Painted for TIME by Artist Edward Barnard Lintott...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the King & Queen of Great Britain in Parliament robes (see front cover) Artist Edward Barnard Lintott of London, Paris and Manhattan* was at home last week in his pale green, high ceilinged 57th Street, Manhattan, studio. Now 54, Artist Lintott looks ten years younger, is large and broad, immensely genial, bears a marked resemblance to London's favorite music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting...
Edward Barnard Lintott is one of the few artists who have ever been diplomats...
...Artist Lintott painted his first society portrait, after the War, of Lady Diana Manners, as she lay in bed. Since then he has done hundreds, expects to do many more. Privately he hates society jobs, quotes his friend the late great John Singer Sargent that "portrait painting, my boy, is a pimp's profession." One portrait, however, that he thoroughly enjoyed was that of faithful James Miller, ancient, honorable red-nosed steward of Princeton's Ivy Club. Because Artist Lintott painted faithful James smiling quizzically over a silver cocktail shaker, timorous club trustees refused to accept the picture...
...confused with Instructor Henry John Lintott of the Edinburgh College...