Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George L. Stout, head of the Department of Technical Research at the Fogg Art Museum, and John S. Thatcher, Assistant Director of the same museum announced yesterday that the cross on Bishop Lawrence's chest in his portrait in Leverett dining hall is caused by variations in the moisture content of the paint and the support...
After carefully examining the cross, Stout stated in his official "Observations on the Condition of a Portrait of Bishop William Lawrence by Charles Hopkinson": "In reflected light, there appears in the painting an inconsistency of surface character along narrow bands which extend vertically and horizontally through the center of the canvas and around the four sides...
...whole process of picture-making, he stated, has received a definite boost in the fields of advertising and news work. Portrait photography alone is still a rather dead field, and consequently, most new men go into commercial lines...
...Nobody ever stopped having a portrait done by Sargent," he grinned, "simply because he could get photographs for $75 a dozen...
...father's pear orchard, Tom at fourteen was sent off to London to study painting. In four years he was supporting himself. At twenty he fell in love with Margaret Burr, a young lady of confused origin who possessed many charms, including an annuity of $1000. After painting her portrait, he married her and settled in Ipswich...