Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louvre was the famed La Belle Ferronière (The Blacksmith's Daughter), most often attributed to Leonardo and almost identical with the Lardoux portrait. Thus Connoisseur Sortais' dictum implied that Leonardo had painted this subject twice. But, since the Louvre painting disappeared in 1848 and later reappeared, there loomed other suspicions. Perhaps the Louvre Belle was a fake. Perhaps the Lardoux Belle was the genuine Leonardo. Perhaps both were by minor artists. Apart from dogmatic critical opinions there was no evidence to show that Leonardo had painted either Belle...
Back to Sir Joseph came favorable reports by "expertizers" of the two paintings. Said they of the Lardoux portrait: "Soggy and bulgy ... it resembles in portions a child's balloon . . . mouth too luscious . . . angularity of the 18th century is here translated into the suavity of the late 18th...
Rich Miss Radclyffe Hall, author of the suppressed Lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (TIME, Dec. 31), contributed $5,000 to the fund, last week, after selling for that sum to the Glasgow Art Gallery a portrait of the late Mrs. George Batten by John Singer Sargent. It had been bequeathed to her by Mrs. Batten...
...President Coolidge asked the Senate to appropriate $5,000 for the purchase of an oil portrait of himself to be hung in the White House. The procedure is customary with outgoing Presidents. Hungarian Artist Philip A. Lazlo de Lombo's suave, briskly painted Coolidge portrait, which now hangs in the state dining room, seemed a probable choice. Other famed Coolidge portraits are by Frank 0. Salisbury, "painter laureate of England," for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Soci ety, Manhattan, and by Ercole Cartotto, adroit Italian. The Cartotto Coolidge is soon to be hung in the Manhattan clubhouse of President...
...show how various European photographers get their portrait effects, Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe...