Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life of the vice-admiral that ran to 717 pages, seemed likely to fix Bligh's place in history for a long time to come. A partisan of his hero, Dr. Mackaness has had the advantage of new discoveries of Bligh's personal writing in drawing his portrait, studiously refutes writers who have charged Bligh with inhumanity and tyranny, but not those who have called him hot-tempered, tactless, shortsighted, rough...
...importer named David Stewart, Isabella Stewart married into a proud Boston family. She delighted, scandalized and tyrannized Back Bay from the early 1860's until her death in 1924. Small, exuberant, handsome, Mrs. Gardner was first painted by John Singer Sargent at 30 in a black shawl. The portrait caused so much talk that she had it put away. That was about the only time she ever bowed to public opinion. She traveled abroad more than anyone else in Boston, bought more dazzling gowns, had more servants and footmen, consorted with actors, artists, musicians, acquired matched pearls...
Brilliant and full of meaning as these portraits are, the great achievement of The Flowering of New England lies in the beautiful discussions of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau. There is a sunlit, morning mood in all Van Wyck Brooks's writing on Emerson, but he has never equaled his new picture of the unself-conscious Sage of Concord who, with his inexhaustible buoyancy and courage, found in the simple life, in disregard for riches, the secret that unlocked his creative genius Of Hawthorne, Mr. Brooks draws a bolder and darker portrait, seeing him as the link between New England...
Left. By the late Steelmaster John Long Severance, Cleveland's great patron of arts & music; to the Cleveland Art Museum: whatever its officers choose from his $2,140,252 art collection, which includes Rembrandt's Portrait of a Youth, Sir Thomas Lawrence's Daughters of Colonel Thomas Cartaret Hardy, Van Dyck's "Sir Thomas Hanmer; in Cleveland...
Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...