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Some of the contributing artists, including Sargent, are paying members of the Association as well. The landscape painters contribute two or three paintings outright as their share. The portraitists offer to paint portraits of members gratis. Miss Beaux, probably the most distinguished woman painter in America, stipulated that her sitter must be a man, and the lot fell upon Richard H. Webber, of Detroit...
...Goya has been lent to the Fogg Art Museum and placed on exhibition in the Gallery. The portrait represents the Toreador Romero and is a striking characterization. It is painted in warm grays, black, white, and violet, with a bright not in the rose colored lining of the sitter's jacket, and is executed with great subtlety and refinement of technique...
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...splendid and spirited Franz Hals gives an excellent idea of the work of that great master. It is a half-length portrait of a well-to-do substantial Dutchman, seated, and is signed in the centre with a monogram and inscribed with the age of the sitter and dated Anno. 1637. This picture was formerly in the collection of Sir Edgar Vincent, and was exhibited in the Grafton Galleries in 1911. The brilliancy of the artist's brush work is particularly noticeable in his handling of the collar and the sleeves of his genial sitter...
...photographic committee wishes to announce that Pach Bros. have been elected photographers of the senior class. Each member will be allowed as many sittings as he wishes, but one negative only will be furnished without extra charge. Each extra negative that is finished costs the sitter one dollar ($1.00). The rates agreed upon are the same as have been offered to college men in past years. Lists containing all members of the faculty, the class, past and present, athletes in costume, groups and views, together with all other necessary information will be mailed to each member of the class...