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Among the 40 British paintings expected were works by Sir William Orpen, Alfred J. Munnings, David Y. Cameron, Frank Brangwyn, Colin Univen Gill. Mild surprise greeted the news that Augustus John was to be featured in a one-man exhibit (a room to himself). Of late seasons this eminent portraitist's popularity has somewhat waned...
...London, Sir John Lavery, famed portraitist, reported a successful visit to the U.S. where with businesslike speed and punctuality he had done 15 millionaires. He also reported that prohibition was practically unknown among the rich. Only four abstainers had he met. One was Vance C. Mc-Cormick, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
Louis Betts, N. A., long a most facile portraitist, achieved the most coveted honor of the show, the Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print...
...rare excellence. In fact, two-thirds of this series consists of either first states or the only states of the plates represented. Nanteuil was the greatest master of pure line engraving of his age, and no such engraving of any time is superior to his. He was himself a portraitist of consummate skill, and many of these engravings are from his own works...