Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second blow is the surly reception to Rembrandt's mass portrait of Captain Banning Cocq's conceited officers. This huge, sombre painting, generally called The Night Watch, is now recognized as one of the world's greatest. When it was unveiled, all Amsterdam laughed, both at the officers and at Rembrandt. Even his friends could not understand his modern chiaroscuro. As a result, Rembrandt's art went out of style, himself into bankruptcy...
Morris, whose portrait was painted by most of the Pre-Raphaelites, addressed one remark to Shaw. Annoyed by his vegetarianism, she once served him a rich pudding, told him triumphantly after he had eaten two helpings with relish: "It will do you good; there's suet in it." Thereafter she never said a word...
...usefulness of the X-ray in penetrating to the under layers of paint without damaging the work is illustrated. In one case, it is shown, the X-ray indicates that the Fogg Museum probably possesses a true portrait by the colonial artist Copley, and not an inferior copy. The picture's authenticity had been questioned because the surface painting is inferior to the artist's usual work...
...most brilliant men ever graduated from Princeton (1903), Paxton Hibben had successive exciting careers in diplomacy, politics, war correspondence, the A. E. F., post-War famine relief, authorship (Constantine I and the Greek People, Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, An American Report on the Russian Famine). A lifelong liberal, he requested that his ashes be taken to Moscow. Following his death in Manhattan in 1928, they were...
...arms about, twisting his body, turning his face to the ceiling, laughing too much, either opening his mouth or distorting its shape by wedging his cigaret holder too far to the side. He may be a swell President, but he doesn't know how to pose for his portrait...