Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tossed him a rubber mouse. To the mouse was attached a string which was attached to a curtain which was attached to an easel. Passionately the poodle pounced on the mouse, pulled the string, drew the curtain and unveiled a first proof of Etcher West's latest work: a portrait of Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen...
University officials have not decided where the engraving will be hung. A portrait of the Reverend Cooper's son, the Reverend Samuel Cooper, painted by John Singleton Copley, was given to the College many years ago, and is now hanging in Eliot House. Like his father, the Reverend Samuel Cooper was offered the presidency of Harvard and declined...
...portrait of a Boston clergyman who declined the presidency of Harvard College in 1737, the Reverend William Cooper, was acquired this week by Harvard University from an anonymous donor. The portrait is one of the rarest and most valuable mezzotint engravings of early New England clergymen, and was made in 1743 by Peter Pelham, copied from an oil painting by John Smibert...
...likeness of John Harvard having been preserved, the statue by Daniel C. French in the College Yard and the stained glass portrait at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, are both ideal representations. Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882 posed for the sculptor but the statue does not pretend to be a likeness of Hoar...
...Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones like rawhide on a saddle frame, his clipped speech and full-stopped voice make him ideal for impersonating tragic historical figures. In spite of a tilted, completely un-Washingtonian nose, he admirably conveys an entirely credible portrait of the great general's sombre personality...