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David Martin as a gift for Franklin's family when the subject was 61. Franklin specified the thumb on chin, made no objection to the warts (see cut). Ten years later Jean Baptiste Greuze made him elderly and dignified in a fur collar and fine blue velvet coat to match his eyes...
...summer afternoon in 1885 the great Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became...
Camille Pissarro never made much money. If he got $500 for a canvas he thought he was doing well. Fame came to him late in life. With a beard every bit as large and white as that of his friend Monet, and evening clothes of black velvet, he was idolized by young Bohemians of the 1890's, loved to preside at the Impressionists' monthly dinners in the café Riche. He died Nov. 13, 1903 of an abscessed prostate gland...
...decision on the Tennessee Valley Authority. They had two tips: 1) Word had leaked out that the Supreme Court police had been instructed to get luncheon in advance since the session would not be brief. 2) Seated in the court room crowd was Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State...
...entire plot of the present production is concerned with the machinations of a slippery clan of genteel racketeers. For the first three of the five scenes, however, the craft is coverered by the show, and the flattering challenge is issued to discern the infernal workings under the velvet cloth...