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Then fortune struck. James Brewer III, an art restorer from Durham, Pa., breezed into New Bedford early this year, saw the painting and said it might well be the work of the master American portraitist, Gilbert Stuart. Stuart Biographer Charles Merrill Mount came by to take a close look and declared that Brewer was right and after some restoration the portrait could be worth $500,000. The painting was "certainly the most important discovery of my lifetime," rhapsodized Mount. "This is the top of American paintings...
...Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance in the worlds of politics, scholarship and art, and was the proper heir to Titian's role as "prince of painters and painter of princes." (By a slightly eerie coincidence, Rubens was conceived...
...girl's head-essentially different from that of Degas, Cassatt's mentor? Stylishness does not go by gender; perhaps it never did. Cecilia Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that it is the work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract art, division by gender becomes meaningless. What sex is Alice Trumbull Mason's painting L'Hasard (1948)? One might answer: platonic...
...join him in London -all in fear of some musket volleys at Lexington. Judging from the few examples of his painting that have been seen since his European excursion, he may be in danger of acquiring that overobsequious, overdandified slickness that is the sine qua non of the European portraitist...
...chance, he encountered an amateur painter, who showed him some of his works. "They were miserably done," Peale recalled later. "Had they been better, perhaps they would not have led ... to the idea of attempting anything in that way." He got some instruction from his neighbor, the established portraitist John Hessilius, and advertised as a sign painter. In 1765, pressed by his Tory creditors for both his debts and his patriotic views, Peale fled Maryland with the sheriff literally at his door. He took advantage of his exile to study briefly in Boston with Copley himself. On his return...