Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today is the last day of the Rembrandt exhibition. During the twelve days of the exhibition it has been visited by over twenty-eight hundred people. Since it was opened two paintings have been lent by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--one a "Portrait of an Old Man", probably Rembrandt's father, painted about 1630--and the other, "Danae", signed and dated 1652. Added interest has been given to the collection of etchings by placing in the cases additional impressions of several of the subjects for the comparison of different states and quality of impressions...
...family of Charles Eliot Norton '46 have presented the Widener Library with a crayon portrait of James Russell Lowell '38. The picture is the work of S. W. Rauss, a noted artist in crayons, and was made for Mr. Norton...
...light of day literally hundreds of great and pseudo-great paintings, many of them authentic, hoarded up for generations by families now impecunious, and handed down along with the patent of nobility, as things to be kept in the family. In London, there has been discovered recently a reputed portrait of Shakespeare; in France a score of Millet paintings hitherto unknown have been brought out of some forgotten corner; and Murillo's "Gentleman of Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed...
Gainsborough's "Portrait of Count Rumford", bequeathed to the University by the will of Edmund Cagswell, Converse, has recently been hung in the Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum...
...portrait by Gainsborough shows Count Rumford in the uniform of the King's American Dragoons. The portrait was published by Mr. Maurice W. Brockwell in Art in America for December, 1917. Mr. Brockwell says: "The internal evidence of the painting shows it to be a late work by Gainsborough, and one of the great English artist's finest achievements in male portraiture. Although neither signed nor dated it a absolutely autograph. The technical characteristics of the picture, the appearance of this famous investigator of light and heat, and the biographical data which we possess of him show that...