Word: portraitists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Robert Winthrop Chanler, 57, portraitist, mural painter, onetime (1903) sheriff of Dutchess County, N. Y., wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made...
...music-hall comedian, bushy-browed George Robey. As a painter he lived ten years in Paris, studied under the late great Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant, wrote a text book on watercolor painting which is quoted by Encyclopaedia Britannica as an authority, and became a fashionable portraitist. But painting is only one of the many things that Artist Lintott has done. He worked under Lord Northcliffe on the Daily Mail at its inception. He edited and illustrated a colored Women's Supplement of the London Times. He has been Librarian of the Royal Academy...
Divorced. William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, portraitist; by Frances Starr, famed Belasco-developed actress; in Reno...
...event of the French art year, real Parisians as well as gaping tourists lined up in open admiration before the portrait of a pretty, shapely young woman in a bright red gown against a peacock-blue background-Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, by Portraitist Edward Everett...
Died. William George Krieghoff, 54, Philadelphia Public Ledger's famed portraitist, painter of the late Chief Justice Taft, Col. Lindbergh. Eva Le Galhenne; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...