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...knows just when Hubard stopped scissoring and began painting, or when he parted from Mr. Smith. He did rather well as an itinerant portraitist, and even better after he had married into Virginia society and settled down in Richmond...
...black tie, cane, long hair, and his studies at Paris' Beaux Arts school. He carved belt buckles, buttons and saddles for Civil War monuments in Boston, later apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Manhattan Sculptor Paul Manship. After seven years' labor, Lachaise was a slick enough portraitist and decorative sculptor to live by his art. Then he married Isabel...
...British did better in French eyes. Leaving out such sure-fire conservatives as famed old portraitist Augustus John, their exhibition was built around Frenchified Britishers like Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland...
Wrote opinionated old Portraitist Augustus John: "To have him portrayed permanently on his legs or somebody else's (even without walking stick!) would be an intolerable solecism, dishonoring to a great and unvanquished spirit, and a lasting monument to British ineptitude only." Opera Singer Marjorie Lawrence, like Roosevelt a polio victim, asked "Why not present...
...experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half of his face and body, including his painting hand. (By great effort, he has since learned to paint as well with his left...