Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That portrait of an irresponsible critic remained accurate throughout the Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Even as late as 1932 Senator Harrison was still being spurred to flights of irony by such items as a Government pamphlet which he called "The Love Life of a Bullfrog." But the portrait bears no recognizable likeness to the Pat Harrison...
...Gallery asked to borrow it. A little later the Montclair people wrote to say that his picture had disappeared from the show. Last week the news came out. Of the Academy's 278 paintings, many of them by famed artists, 25-year-old Rob Godfrey's portrait of Anneliese had been the only one picked for purchase by the great Metropolitan Museum...
...Rembrandts while ignoring living artists, the august Metropolitan's directors have lately begun to take a few chances on moderns. But they do not take very big chances, and last week dazed Rob Godfrey refused to reveal the "very modest sum" the Metropolitan had paid for his portrait. "It might." said sensible Anneliese Godfrey, "cause clients to want to have their portraits done for the same price, or cheaper...
Backbone of the exhibit was the Halsey Collection of more than 100 Wedgwood portrait medallions, which Franklin's contemporaries called "cameos." Among the Franklin friends whose likenesses were thus ceramically preserved were Josiah Wedgwood himself, William Penn, William Pitt, Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), Charles James Fox, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Washington, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Jean François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) and Catherine II of Russia...
Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...