Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considered one of the finest examples of African art, the fourteenth century bronze portrait of a princess of Benin, fabulous and now virtually extinct small nation of the West African slave coast, was presented to the Fogg Museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York City...
...practices his hobby of photography. After the storm of rage which her visit provokes, audiences are not totally unprepared for the shock which comes to Carol when, examining a book about famous unsolved crimes, she recognizes her husband's face under a fringe of sandy whiskers in the portrait of a man who has killed three women by marrying them and luring them to cozy country pieds-à-terre. Or for what ensues when Gerald invites Carol to come downstairs and help him tidy up the darkroom...
...will of Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln, the Emancipator's daughter-in-law who died last month at the age of 90 (TIME, April 12). One of the Lincoln family's few precious objects which had not already been given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever...
...Only Lincoln portrait now in the White House is one by William Cogswell, hanging on the north wall of the State dining room...
Supposedly based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...