Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found one common point of reunion ?their mutual desire to keep him as far away from the front as possible? a desire in which they were aided and abetted by Julia Campton's second husband, the millionaire Mr. Brant, who idolized George. John Campton had become a famous portrait-painter? Julia, as Mrs. Brant, had at last attained the riches and social success she craved? but what reality life possessed for each of them was bound up with George...
...possible disappearance of the best known portrait of Jefferson...
...idealism. "Dat feller is painting God mitoudt seeing him," said one Croatian, sweaty with coal dust. They like it and are proud to work for "Hydraulic." Beneker has a flair for the descriptive title to catch the worker's imagination-" Galvanized American " "Men Are Square," Gray Matter " ("portrait" of a huge hydraulic press). He traces the lineage of Industrial Art to Velasquez and his Forge of Vulcan, painted in Italy for Philip IV of Spain...
...most important paintings of Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter of the English school in the 18th Century, were purchased by Americans at the private sale of the late Sir Charles Tennant (father of Mrs. H. H. Asquith) through Duveen Brothers, New York. The buyers and prices were not announced. The pictures...
...Portrait of Lady Diana Crosbie, daughter of Lord George Sackville, one of Sir Joshua's greatest full-length portraits, comparable with the famous Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse (owned by Henry Huntington) and Nelly O'Brien (in the Wallace Collection, London). The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of 1779, and depicts Lady Crosbie, then but 21 years old, charmingly posed on a lawn, elaborately gowned and coifed, with a landscape background...