Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after February 1934 when a grand jury indicted her and four gangsters for the kidnapping in 1931 of strapping, wealthy Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley. Day after day, week after week newspapers dished up incidents from Mrs. Muench's past. At police headquarters they found a rogues' gallery portrait of Nellie Muench taken in 1919 when she was arrested in an alleged jewelry theft. They found a record of another arrest as a larceny suspect, and a report that had to do with an attempt to work the ancient badger game, another in which she was accused of planning...
Artist Copley married well, lived and worked in Boston until he was 36, entertaining the quality, living in a fine house with an eleven-acre farm on Beacon Hill. He had had quite a success with a portrait of his half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...
Most famed example of Artist Copley's slow pace is his large portrait of The Knatchbull Family. While years passed and Copley continued to peck at the canvas, Sir Edward Knatchbull's first and second wives died and he married a third, sired a tenth child. Undaunted, Artist Copley got Ladies Knatchbull I and II in the picture as angels in the sky, but later Sir Edward had them painted out. Out of fashion and in debt, Artist Copley died in 1815, twelve years before his son, John Singleton Jr., became Lord Chancellor of England...
...Eliot House last Wednesday, President Conant accepted on behalf of the College a portrait of Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, presented by present undergraduates and former resident members of the House, and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Merriman...
...portrait was painted by the artist, Alexandre Iacovleff, head of the School of Painting of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It is temporarily hanging in the Eliot House Library and the permanent disposition has not yet been definitely decided upon...