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Lady Frances Wentworth revealed the calm realism of John Singleton Copley (1737-1815), an apt painter of the gentlefolk whose silks and satins rustled primly through the streets of pre-Revolutionary Boston. His Brass Crosby was technically more assured, exemplified his work as an official painter of important London figures. Not hanging was his famed portrait of the Knatchbull family which took seven years to finish because Mr. Knatchbull caused repeated repaintings by remarrying, begetting more and more children. American-born Benjamin West (1738-1820) who lived in London and was one of his generation's most famed painters...
...pick up hands containing long suits studded with honors, short or void suits representing ability to ruff. If the cards are shuffled so that a truly random arrangement results, a player should get a 6-card suit every six hands, a 7-card suit every 28 hands, a singleton every three hands, a void suit every 20 hands...
Four unfamiliar pictures neatly quarter President Washington's life 1) a miniature attributed to John Singleton Copley executed when Washington was 25; 2) a Peale showing Washington, the Virginia colonel; 3) Trumbull's portrait of Washington, the General, painted in 1792, in which the subject is standing on a high cliff while a pickaninny in a turban holds his horse; 4) Washington, the Old Gentleman, with a somewhat rufous nose and in full Masonic regalia, done by William Williams for Alexandria (Va) Lodge No. 39. Their respective denominations...
Died. Esther Singleton, author (A Guide to the Opera, Social New York Under the Georges, The Shakespeare Garden, The Story of the Universe, The Wild Flower Fairy Book), since 1923 editor of The Antiquarian; at Stonington, Conn...
Score-Bradford-Durfee 2, Harvard Freshmen 0. Goals--Singleton, Bean. Time--two 35-minute periods...