Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Collector Stannard's dealer sticks to his story: that his portrait of Henry is the earliest authenticated one. The National Portrait Gallery sits firmly on the fence...
...Thanks ... are due to TIME for reporting the uncovering of a hitherto unknown portrait of that interesting monarch, Henry VIII [TIME, June 30]. . . . TIME slipped, however, in stating that the English collector [Stannard] had "rescued from oblivion Henry's earliest known portrait." There is a quite authentic and well-known "Portrait of Henry VIII as a Child" [see cut) which antedates the portrait in question by some 15 years. The childhood portrait, made about 1494 by an unknown artist, has in recent years belonged to the collection of the Verney family at Rhianva, Anglesey, England. It shows that even...
...heard one torpedo explode. Not until after the war did the U.S. know what had happened after that. The Japanese civilian workers had lost their heads. No one thought to shut the water-tight doors. Slowly, water welled into the Shinano. Six hours later, her Japanese skipper tucked a portrait of Emperor Hirohito under his arm, scrambled over the side and left the biggest carrier ever built to sink ignominiously, the victim of one torpedo...
Painter Tom Benton, clad only in a pair of blue jeans, was busy getting in his hay on Martha's Vineyard when the good news arrived. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts had just spent $2,000 for Benton's latest portrait, New England Editor (see cut). It had been some time since the champing champion of American-school painting had received such a boost...
Some museumgoers wished that Benton had done his drinking before starting to paint. To them, his portrait looked as inert and uninspired as a coil of rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...