Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Godfrey Kneller was the first English portrait painter to achieve a great reputation. He left behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...
...portrait of the late Judge Hoar has been hung on the south wall of Memorial Hall, directly over the serving tables...
...shown from the clubs of Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Syracuse and Buffalo. The slides as a whole gave evidence of artistic and sympathetic treatment, - the work of the eastern clubs being decidedly the best. The exhibition comprised views of many kinds, of which those from nature showed most skill. The portrait work was least successful...
...request of some of the alumni Professor Lane, during his visit to Europe last summer, sat for his portrait to the distinguished French artist, Bonnat. The portrait, which is to be presented to the University, has lately arrived and may be seen for a time at the gallery of Messrs Doll and Richards, in Park street, Boston. The likeness of the great scholar is said to be an excellent one in every...
...advance sheets of the University Graduates' Magazine, which is intended as a means for the presentation of the thoughts of college professors and of all interested in higher education, have been received by the CRIMSON. The frontispiece is a portrait of President Eliot, given in connection with an article by Adam De. Marisco on "Harvard of Today...