Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war years no gilt-edged Old Masters of the Andrew Mellon-J. P. Morgan class have changed hands at auction. Recent sales: a Fra Lippo Lippi, $30,000; a Van Dyck, $10,000; a Tintoretto, $41,000; a Rembrandt, $11,500; a Velasquez, $15,500. But many a painting with a dazzling signature has fetched a four-figure price: a Rubens for $6,900; a Goya for $3,500; a Gainsborough at $6,000; an El Greco...
...pleasant life, Artist Mount flirted with spiritualism. Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s. The New York Evening Post once gravely reported: "We met him one day in Broadway, and he ... took from his hat a roll of papers filled with etchings by Rembrandt, who had the previous night appeared to him. . . . These . . . were probably Mr. Mount's own work, but produced under some spiritualistic hallucination."* The old painter's preoccupation with Rembrandt was deeper than the Post knew. A few years before his death from pneumonia in 1868, William Sidney Mount...
...Founded in 1805, after more than a dozen years of urgent petitions and civic meetings engineered by Charles Willson Peale, most popular American portrait painter of his time (post-Copley, pre-Stuart and Trumbull). An insatiable art lover, Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian. He painted portraits of most of the Founding Fathers, including some 60 studies of Washington. At his avocation as jeweler, Peale also fashioned for General Washington the wooden false teeth which caused the well-known shrunken cheeks of the Stuart portraits...
...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...
...best canvases, almost a year to the day before his death left to Washington's National Art Gallery (and to Philadelphia's dismay) some $50,000,000 worth of oil paint's primest pedigrees: more than 100 "best-of-brush," over such names as Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt...