Word: rumford
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Gainsborough's "Portrait of Count Rumford", bequeathed to the University by the will of Edmund Cagswell, Converse, has recently been hung in the Gallery of the Fogg Art Museum...
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1753, of parents who were on both sides of English descent. In the War of Independence he espoused the British cause and in 1776 sailed for England with despatches announcing the evacuation of Boston by the British troops. In 1783 he was advanced to a colonelcy in the "King's American Dragoons" and placed on half pay. In the same year he was knighted by George III. He then entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria and remained at Munich for eleven years. In 1791 he was made...
...portrait by Gainsborough shows Count Rumford in the uniform of the King's American Dragoons. The portrait was published by Mr. Maurice W. Brockwell in Art in America for December, 1917. Mr. Brockwell says: "The internal evidence of the painting shows it to be a late work by Gainsborough, and one of the great English artist's finest achievements in male portraiture. Although neither signed nor dated it a absolutely autograph. The technical characteristics of the picture, the appearance of this famous investigator of light and heat, and the biographical data which we possess of him show that...
Harold Irving Bixby, of Holbrook; Charles Ezra Constantine, of Roxbury; Rand Augustus Dunham, of Rumford, Me.; Walter Wendell Fray, of Catskill, N. Y.; George Kahn, of Dorchester; Robert Edward Lee Loring, of Shrewsbury; Max Ritvo, of Dorchester; Hugh Laughlin Robinson, of Waterville, Me.; Erland Myles Standish, of Wethersfield, Conn.; Horace Pottle Stimson, of Northampton; and Louis Wolff, of Revere...
...appointments announced yesterday include those of G. W. Peirce, A.M. '99, as Rumford Professor of Physics to succeed E. H. Hall, who has retired from active teaching, and of Theodore Lyman '97 as Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, a post made famous by its tenure in the past by Benjamin Peirce '76 and Wallace C. Sabine...