Word: vanderlyn
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...notch trio of Homer, Ryder and Eakins. There were plenty of surprising items: a huge, romantic, melodramatic scene by Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins in a towel antedated the work of meticulous Realist William Harnett...
...Franklin, now the property of Mrs. Arthur Lehman, and Benjamin West's unfinished group of the signing of the Treaty of Peace with England in 1783 from the Morgan LIbrary. Interesting because the subject is so seldom seen was a portrait of Grecian-nosed Theodosia Burr by John Vanderlyn. Beloved only child of Aaron Burr, she was her father's companion and housekeeper for years, married Governor Alston of South Carolina, and in 1812 disappeared mysteriously at sea on her way from Charleston to New York. For years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery...