Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paint in 34 scenes the tumultuous love-life of Veronica Mathilda McConnell, a poor Irish serving girl. At the age of eleven in the streets of the slums. she gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz good to me," she breathed to the portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age of 22. Her devoted master and mistress, mystic and delicate...
...portrait above was drawn by his great and good friend, Rockwell Kent...
...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...
...Significance. Many Frenchmen have written about Mirabeau?notably Louis Barthou whom Author Jouvenel, generous, believes "almost conclusive." Orderly, perceptively, amusedly, with a good eye for a subject's public-private proportions, Author Jouvenel renders this portrait as a biography in the tradition, though not the manner, of Plutarch, Suetonius, Maurois...
Engaged. Miss Eileen Bennett, English tennis player; to Edmund Fearnley Whittinghstall, 28, English portrait painter...