Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the acquisition of a rare portrait of Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court, the Harvard Law School has added another painting to its already large collection of poraraits of American and British jurists...
...portrait was painted in 1859 by Emmanuel Lentze, who came to America in the early part of the last century to make decorations for the capitol at Washington. Lentze was also commissioned to paint the portrait for Justice Taney's daughter, a Mrs. J. M. Campbell, the wife of a noted lawyer of Baltimore. Lentze is probably best remembered by his painting of "Washington Crossing the Delaware", which now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The painting of Judge Taney, which is three-quarter length and life size, was done when the Judge was in his eighty-third...
...portrait of Chief Justice Taney will be hung, at least temporarily, in the South Room of Langdell Hall between the portraits of Chief Justice Jay and Chief Justice White...
Gladstone's square face is still combative. He is healthy. He fells trees. It will be at least ten years before his portrait, majestic, infinitely venerable, will be painted for the ages. It will be 22 years before he dies...
...JEST-Sem Benelli's cruel Italian portrait brought back with Basil Sydney in the lead...