Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. C. E. Norton writes an "open lettee" to the April Century on the authorship of Dante's portrait in the Bargello at Florence...
...Matthew Arnold; "Recent Tendencies in American Journalism," by E. V. Smalley; "One View of the Chaucerian Mania," by Kate Sanborn; "Jasper Francis Cropsey," by W. H. Forman. Julia Hawthorne contributes a short story, and Edgar Fawcett continues his novel. The number is well illustrated throughout, the frontispiece being a portrait of Edwin Booth...
...privilege, the other day, of seeing a striking portrait of Dr. Peabody in the studio of Frederick P. Vinton. The painting, although not wholly completed, presents an excellent likeness, a fine effect having been produced by a broad light which gives his features a marked expression. The reverend Dr. is seated, a smile upon his face, with one hand partially extended, as it were in conversation...
...portrait of Dr. Peabody, by F. C. Vinton, is nearly finished...
...William Everett, principal of Adams Academy, has presented a portrait of Samuel Rogers, the English poet, to the college. It will soon be placed in Memorial Hall. It was painted about the year 1847 by Chester Harding, and by him sent in the spring of 1848 to Edward Everett, who was then president of Harvard College. By his administrator it was presented to Sidney Brooks, (Harvard College, 1819). From him it was passed by will in 1878 to William Everett, (Harvard College, 1859). It is by him presented to the president and fellows, in pursuance of an intention expressed...