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...unique harmony of colors could portray the lofty assurance of Philanthropist Thomas Russell, wealthy New England merchant, or the visionary romanticism of Painter Washington Allston. Fine miniatures were also done by Sarah Goodridge, who painted the luminous portrait of aging, crusty Painter Gilbert Stuart, and by Charles Willson Peale, who did the study of phlegmatic-looking John Lowell of the Boston Lowells, member of the Continental Congress and a U.S. judge. Many of the miniatures, and not the worst, went unsigned, like the deft portrait of youthful Navyman Oliver Hazard Perry. A miniaturist celebrated in other fields was Robert Fulton...
...charge of the programs at Harvard is Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics and General Education. Others working with him are Bart J. Bok, formerly Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, I. Bernard Cohen '37, associate professor of the History of Science. Others include Gerald Hilton, associate professor of Physics and of General Education, Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics, and Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus...
WHEN TIME'S Art Researcher Martha Peter Welch began to check the story of the Mount Vernon Museum's miniature of Martha Custis Washington (see ART), supposedly a 1772 work of Charles Willson Peale, she discovered Yale University had another miniature, also thought to be the 1772 Peale portrait. Since both were acquired from direct descendants of the nation's first First Lady, the museum and university quietly began to reconcile their claims...
...prodding and blandishments of his wife Martha to make him agree to have "his likeness limned" for the first time. Giving in. Washington said: "Very well, Madam, but only if you and your children have your likenesses taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become...
...nearby Williamsburg, Va., another lady Washington also admired (though presumably from afar) showed up last week, with the discovery in a private collection of another Charles Willson Peale portrait-this one of Actress Nancy Hallam, one of America's first glamour girls. The portrait, unidentified for more than a century, shows Actress Hallam playing the role of Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Hailed as "superfine" by a contemporary theatergoer, and not above playing the daring "breeches part" of a young man on stage, Nancy and her charms lured Washington to the theater five times in one week...