Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...splendid and spirited Franz Hals gives an excellent idea of the work of that great master. It is a half-length portrait of a well-to-do substantial Dutchman, seated, and is signed in the centre with a monogram and inscribed with the age of the sitter and dated Anno. 1637. This picture was formerly in the collection of Sir Edgar Vincent, and was exhibited in the Grafton Galleries in 1911. The brilliancy of the artist's brush work is particularly noticeable in his handling of the collar and the sleeves of his genial sitter...
Students of the University and the public who visit the Fogg Museum are thus given a rare opportunity of seeing unusually fine examples of Rembrandt and Franz Hals beside the Van Dyck portrait of Nicholas Triest, which belongs to the Fogg Museum...
...most important picture of all, however, and the one that will be longest remembered, is the wonderful portrait of Olivares from the Villahermosa Collection in Madrid, painted by Velasquez in 1624. Throughout Velasquez's life and work. Philip IV and the Count Duke of Olivares exercised the strongest influence upon him, and during the early years of the master's activity as court painter, he produced almost exclusively portraits of the royal family and of Olivares. Of the latter, unfortunately only a limited number are extant; the balance were destroyed when Olivares fell into disgrace in 1643. Though Olivares...
...effort is being made among alumni of the University to secure sufficient funds to purchase the painting of Professor Royce, Professor James, and Professor Palmer, known as "Three Harvard Philosophers." The portrait is the work of Mr. Winifred Rieber, of Berkeley, California, and in the event of its being acquired by the University will probably be hung in the Widner Library...
...income to be used for the purposes of the Cancer Commission of the University; $23,250 from the estate of Julia M. Moseley, also for the work of the Cancer Commission in the City of Boston; $6,200 from various donors for the purchase of Van Dyck portrait for the Fogg Art Museum. Another gift, from Erasmus D. Leavitt '08, of a number of drawings and drawing cases belonging formerly to the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, was also reported. The establishment of "The N. P. Hallowell '61 Memorial Scholarship," was announced the fund being furnished by the children...