Word: rothensteiner
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...Artist with gleaming spectacles and a serious expression who wandered about Division Headquarters in a shaggy goatskin tunic and trench helmet drawing pictures of Generals. Those who talked with him discovered that he knew an enormous number of famous people. Intellectuals realized that this little man was the Will Rothenstein celebrated in Max Beerbohm's Enoch Soames. When the first volume of his autobiography appeared in the U. S. last month,* readers had a chance to learn something of a man who is still comparatively unknown to the general public, though he has had his paintings hung in dozens...
...William Rothenstein (knighted last year) was born in Yorkshire in 1872, the son of a prosperous cloth merchant. At the age of 16 he left grammar school to be an artist, studied at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, a meticulous draughtsman and a pupil of Ingres. The Ingres-Legros influence is still obvious in Rothenstein's drawing. A preternaturally solemn youth of 17 in a long black frock coat, he went to Paris to enter the Academic Julian...
Already he was developing his faculty for meeting and making friends with great men. Sober-faced Will Rothenstein was as thrilled at chatting with Degas, dining at the Cafe Royal with Oscar Wilde, going to the Moulin Rouge with Toulouse-Lautrec, as a young U. S. executive might be at lunching with Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell or Albert Wiggin. After four years in Paris he was sent to Oxford to do a series of portraits of famed Oxonians. Wrote his friend Max Beerbohm...