Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seriously when he was about 15, in the studio of his elder brother, a designer of stained glass windows. He won scholarships at the Royal Academy art schools, traveled in Italy, Germany and France. At the age of 23 he returned to London, set up his easel as a portrait painter...
...first success was a portrait of a Miss Alice Maude Greenwood which was accepted for the Royal Academy of 1899. The picture was sold and two years later Frank Salisbury married Miss Greenwood. The portrait of the future Mrs. Salisbury won him a commission to do a portrait of Sir Joseph Gilbert which in turn brought him a commission from Sir Charles Lawes-Writtewronge. After that Frank Salisbury was made. Since then he has propped up his easel before so many of the world's potentates, that it is difficult to understand why he has never been knighted...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...
...Switzerland. No delegate showed up to represent Adolf Hitler. Moreover, two of II Duce's most ardent foreign disciples, Austria's Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg and Britain's Sir Oswald Mosley, also stayed away. At Fascist Headquarters in Rome hangs a full-length portrait of Sir Oswald - the only foreign Fascist so honored. His absence from Montreux last week amounted to notice from II Duce that the Pax Romanizers will have to achieve something concrete and meritorious before they can consider them selves one with Benito Mussolini. Last week the Montreux Conference first achieved...
...inevitable." He fell in with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians attended his funeral. Gilbert Stuart painted his portrait from a death mask...