Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sargent," said the King to the painter at a Royal Academy banquet, "I want you to do a portrait of Ribblesdale. Wonderful name, wonderful family-600 years on one property up in Yorkshire, wit, great sportsman, two fine sons, great breed...
Sims-not the Rear Admiral whose likenesses adorn the cover of this magazine, nor the Seattle lumberman whose name may be remembered*-but Charles Sims, R. A., portrait painter of smart repute in England, exhibited last week at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan...
Epigrams are easily manufactured in synthetic prose; to produce them in paint requires a far greater technical equipment. Mr. Sims is a masterly epigrammatist. Almost every Sims picture in the Knoedler Gallery flashes with the slim lustre of a dinner table witticism, but most mordant of all is the portrait of King George...
Every year the supporters of the Gallery are rewarded for their in vestment with a free lottery of selected paintings. Mr. Swift chose the only Sargent in the Gallery, a portrait valued at $15,000. The second name was Charles Clifton, President of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, who chose Heavy Weather, a marine painting by Irving Wiles. The third, James Parmelee of Washington, acquired Lilian Hale's Spring Reverie...
...fourth name drawn was Otto Kahn; he chose a portrait to be painted by John Johansen...