Word: mr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MR. FRANCIS P. KNIGHT, an old resident of China and one of the Chinese Commissioners to the Philadelphia Exhibition, has collected $10,000 to support for three years two Chinese instructors at Harvard College, who are to teach young men the Chinese language, so as to fit them for positions in China, either under the government or as business agents. He will select two Chinese gentlemen as teachers. - New York Evening Post...
Through the kindness and influence of Mr. Ruskin, the artist was allowed to take from the walls of the galleries, to a private room, whatever paintings he desired to study, and thus he was able to accomplish faithfully his task...
...Club last Friday were exhibited three of Mr. Moore's studies of the Venetian masters, forming part of the collection he has already sent home as specimens of his own work during his stay abroad...
After glancing at the lives and works of these masters, Professor Norton spoke at some length of the work with which Mr. Moore has been occupied during his stay in Italy, and expressed great satisfaction that the College should possess copies of such merit as those Mr. Moore has sent us. Mr. Norton considers these copies a great credit to the artist, as valuable, indeed, as originals; they show extraordinary care and delicacy, such as could have been given by a person of no less talents than Mr. Moore possesses...
...small copy of Carpatio's celebrated Saint Ursula, showing the head and bust of the reclining saint, into which Mr. Moore has put all the perfections and imperfections of the original; another represents the group of Apostles that occupies the lower part of Titian's "Annunciation of the Virgin"; and the third is taken from Tintoretto...