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...paintings that disappeared from Harvard’s collections more than three decades ago have resurfaced, the University said yesterday, and an art professional says that one of them is a 1790 portrait by John Singleton Copley...
...mystery surrounds the Bessborough portrait as well. The University Art Museums website includes an entry for the work but does not list it as missing or stolen. But unlike 20 of the 23 other Copley paintings listed in Harvard's collection, the University Art Museums website has no archived image of the Bessborough portrait...
...portrait is the work of one of colonial America’s most distinguished artists. Copley, born in Boston in 1738, was tied to the Tories who supported British rule during the time of the American Revolution. He left Massachusetts for London in 1774 and never returned to his native land. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1779—a likely explanation for the “R.A.” in the signature on the painting in question...
Bessborough, the subject of the portrait, was a Whig member of Parliament and a British government official in Ireland. He died...
...Banshees in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, though perhaps excessively opulent, re-envisioning of one of history’s most infamous monarchs. Inspired by Antonia Fraser’s somewhat controversial biography, Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” offers a sympathetic portrait of a young girl trapped in a glittering and cold palatial prison. The film follows the Austrian-born princess from her engagement at 14 through her life at the royal court of Versailles. The majority of the film centers on Marie’s early inability to fully integrate into court...