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Each figure expressed an individual passionate sorrow, yet there was swaying and swooning in groups. It was extraordinarily well done. Responsible for the dramatic composition and the stage direction was Miss Irene Lewisohn.* The voices of invisible singers mingled with the orchestral sounds. The Rembrandt-like picture on the stage was but one more instrument. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff was at his best; connoisseurs called him great...
There were exceptions to this tendency, notably the high price of $52,000 which was offered for Jean-Honoré Fragonard's glittering and beautiful self portrait, and the $16,000 brought by Josef Israëls' pretty painting, Her Treasure. Rembrandt's portrait of the Marquis d'Andelot putting on his armor went to the John Levy Galleries for $86,000; A Young Cavalier, by Frans Hals went for one thousand less. The second highest price of the evening was the $90,000 for which Frederick Bucher bought John Hoppner's cool and charming...
Among the artists represented in the current exhibit are such well-known artists as Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyke, all of whom painted during the seventeenth century, the high water period of Dutch and Flemish...
Perhaps the crowning feature of the exhibition is a group of portraits by Rembrandt, who was called by one authority on Dutch art "an independent genius. . . . the supreme glory of the Dutch nation...
Presidents F. E. Herriman, of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corpn., Rembrandt Peale, of the Peale, Peacock & Kerr, and J. W. Searles, of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co., all testified that they had considered the Jacksonville agreement, bitter bone of the whole contention, to be morally as well as legally binding. President Horace F. Baker, of the Pittsburgh Terminal Co., has already testified the same (despite contradiction by his competitor, President Morrow), having established that his company kept the agreement, was not again called to the stand...