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Died. Sir William Rothenstein, 73, amiable, bespectacled British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with his anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very...
...William Rothenstein once painted Einstein's portrait in Berlin. Throughout the sittings the great man conversed steadily with a thickspectacled stranger who sat in a corner looking "like an ancient tortoise." From time to time the stranger shook his head solemnly, and Einstein, crestfallen, would relapse into temporary silence. When Sir William took his final leave, Einstein explained apologetically: "He is my mathematician, who examines the problems I place before him and checks on their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...
...week agreed with Mrs. Macdonald. Bilbo's sloppy, raw-hued pirates, animals, nudes and caricatures of Hitler looked as if he had dipped his gat in the paint pot and then let fly at the canvas. But with metropolitan art critics, the astute, silk-toppered Artist Sir William Rothenstein, the Duke of Kent and bevies of Mayfair socialites swarming to see his pictures, and with the whole show bought by Scottish Art Dealer Andrew G. Elliot, the bushy-headed, self-styled ex-gangster pal could well afford to smile...
...Royal Academy show is most painstakingly reviewed each year by London's sartorial trade sheet, Tailor and Cutter, which last week gloomed over Sir William Rothenstein's slovenliness in painting a portrait of himself wearing a waistcoat buttoning the wrong...
...while he was "doing the books" for the "Review" that he saved enough money and summened up enough courage to visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...