Word: portraitists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after garnering a few commissions in London, Maurice Quentin de La Tour set himself up as a portraitist in Paris. The year was 1727, and Anglophilia was becoming fashionable in the court at Versailles...
...long afterwards, a counselor to Louis XV wrote admiringly that "La Tour is becoming the portraitist a la mode." Louis summoned La Tour to Versailles, where he limned the monarch's handsome features, as well as those of the royal family and Madame de Pompadour. Other commissions naturally followed. Along with other prominent painters of the day, he was soon awarded quarters in the Louvre, which then served as a royally endowed artists' colony. In 1750 Louis named him official court painter...
Portrait by Romney. Dining at 10 Downing Street, he delightedly pointed out to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even...
...print collection shows Rembrandt as a genre painter and portraitist, a landscape artist, a painter of biblical, mythological, and historical scenes, and it even contains Rembrandt still lifes. The great range and mastery revealed in these etchings accounts for Rembrandt's reputation as the master of print-making. The etching of Rembrandt's Mother, one of the best prints on display, demonstrates the scribbling, playful quality of line in Rembrandt's early etchings, as well as his superb control. In short, the print galleries are a necessary stop for the edified but somewhat disappointed gallerygoer who has just seen...
From the first, the President and the portraitist hit it off together like a pair of cowpokes. Both, after all, were men of the Southwest, both ranchers, both devoted to the austere horizons of the high desert...