Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Sir Knight Alfred E. Smith...
...Sir Abdur Rohin (India...
...Sir Johannes Wessels (So. Africa...
Most unfashionable painters feel and express disdain for fashionable portrait painters. This disdain is in many cases justified because many fashionable portrait painters are ridiculous fakes. Disdain is not usually felt for Sir William Orpen with his careful, photographic half-tones, sometimes so emphasized that his faces are overmodeled. Among the most prolific of painters, he held, in 1918, a vast exhibition of War-paintings, of which he gave a large number to the British nation. He has written books as well as painted pictures, but less ably...
...Sir John Lavery's portraits are distinguished by concentration upon pattern and composition and by a unique green which he uses in his flesh tints. Lavery has painted the British Royal family with notable success; a man of strong and erratic enthusiasms, he last week proposed to portray Prize-fighter Gene Tunney whom he met at a banquet. "He is the favorite of the Gods," exclaimed Sir John, "Someone ... I myself . . . should paint him for the Royal Academy...