Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when that dusty institute contained such promising pupils as Augustus John, Sir John Lavery, William Rothenstein. Billy Orps did not have to wait long for recognition. His humor, the firmness of his line, above all his brilliant use of color attracted inter national attention. Very soon he had more portrait com missions than he could handle. Tycoons besieged his studio. One New York gallery offered him $5,000,000 to come to New York and do a series of 300 portraits. Billy Orps turned it down. He had all the portraits he could possibly do right in London...
...portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Feke, the American painter, is the feature of the Eliot House library. The picture, which hangs directly over the fire-place, is the earliest known portrait of Franklin. On either side of it are paintings of Sir George Downing and of Robert Bacon, Fellow of Harvard University from...
...Tutors' Common Room is a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Buckminster, the Unitarian minister, and one of Samuel Cooper Thatcher by Gilbert Sturt Newton. The Students' Common Room has an enlarged photograph of the crew of 1858. It is a six-oared shell with President Eliot...
...large portrait of President Eliot in the dining hall is by Sargent and was formerly in the Fogg Museum...
Interior decoration work in the House is nearing completion. Furniture recently moved into the upper common room includes a side-board formerly in the possession of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The portrait of John Quincy Adams in the Union will be moved to the dining hall, where it will hang in company with one by Savage of General Washington...