Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no prize exhibit in the Havemeyer collection. Outstanding are El Greco's portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Cardinal Fernando Nino de Guevara, a crafty-eyed prelate in thick horn-rimmed spectacles, painted over 300 years ago, just before Inquisitor Fernando burned alive half a hundred heretics in the Toledo market place; Manet's portrait of the redhaired, raffish George Moore; the superb example of Rembrandt's engraving: "Christ Healing the Sick...
Notables from every branch of life were present yesterday at the presentation to the Harvard Law School of a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes '61. Ceremonies were held in the Court Room of Langdell Hall, with speeches by Bishop Lawrence, Dean Pound, and Judge Learned Hand '93, of the New York State Supreme Court...
...Professor J. H. Beale '82, acting dean of the Law School, and Judge Holmes. In replying to Professor Beale's invitation to attend the unveiling, Judge Holmes wrote, "Your more than kind letter came this morning. My emotion, were I able to be present at the presentation of my portrait, would be embarrassing. But, fortunately, for my composure, I cannot leave Washington. I feel very deeply the great honor that you do me. To have the picture placed where I understand it is to be, in your magnificent hall--worthy of the noble corps of professors and instructors who teach...
Dean Pound, accepting the portrait for the Law School, spoke of the three branches of the law, the judging, teaching, and practicing. He praised Justice Holmes as having acted in all three capacities in a laudable manner...
...portrait, which depicts Judge Holmes standing in judicial robes in a speaking pose, is by C. S. Hopkinson '91, who has painted several portraits for the Law School. It will be hung in the reading room of Langdell Hall opposite the portrait of Justice Marshall...