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When victory approached, Peale settled in Philadelphia and opened a museum of his Revolutionary portraits. The resulting portrait commissions were just enough to support his greatest joy-a bustling, boisterous family. Of his ten children to reach maturity, most dabbled in art, two became professional painters: Raphaelle and Rembrandt. Raphaelle was by far the most talented, brought still-life painting to a pitch seldom equaled before or since, and died of drink...
...failure to make the doctor seem like a truly troubled man or even a convinced atheist. What is good about The Crazy Doctor is its author's earthy sense of humor, and the fresh background of Holland life and scenery that sometimes has the authenticity of a Rembrandt. Van der Lugt, a prolific writer still under 40 (more than 70 plays, six novels, many juveniles), writes like a man in a hurry. In his first U.S. bow, he very nearly throws away his characters and his story, but what is left is enough to keep the pages turning...
...Rembrandt is gone, and the house is stuffed with electronic brains and their human servitors, all available to customers on something akin to a help-yourself automat basis...
...finest in the world. Among its treasures, it boasts two Titians, two El Grecos, four Goyas, four Manets, two Monets, seven Modiglianis, ten Toulouse-Lautrecs, eleven Renoirs, four Van Goghs, five Ceézannes, two Gauguins, two Picassos and such masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Memling, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens and Valasquez. Most of these possessions are a result of Chato's winning way of putting the bite on other people for money...
...showing of part of his collection in Paris, Brussels, Utrecht, Bern and London. Chato himself was on hand for the sparkling opening at London's Tate Gallery. The show's 79 paintings (worth, says Chato, about $14 million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...