Word: vandyck
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...never exhibiting again. He afterwards became reconciled with Sir Joshua Reynolds and began a portrait of him, which was never finished. Four years later, when Gainsborough felt that his end was near, he sent for Sir Joshua. His last words were, "We are all going to heaven, and VanDyck is of the party...
...Faculty of Princeton University have announced the following appointments for the class of '93 for commencement day: Valedictorian, Bertram Vandyck Post of Syria; honorary orations, Abram P. Andrew, Jr., of Indiana, Jesse B. Carter of New York, William A. Dunn of Ohio, Lee Montgomery of Missouri, Charles B. Newton of Pennsylvania, Guy A. Tawney of Minnesota, John L. Tidsley of New York and Herbert L. Winans of New York. The appointments of Latin and English salutatorians have not yet been made...
Having found some fault with Rembrandt, no fuller reparation can be made than by turning our attention to the world-renowned Hundred Guilder piece. Here Rembrandt makes himself immortal, and uses his chiaro-oscuro in a most effective manner. Professor Lubke has called Rembrandt, as compared with Vandyck or Rubens, a demagogue. This may be admitted, unless the bad sense of demagogue is too much insisted upon. It was most natural for Rembrandt, who lived and died in Holland, to depict what he had before him, and that was a government by the people. In this truly superb impression...