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...Peaches") Browning Hynes Civelli, relict of Millionaire "Daddy" Browning and favorite child bride of the tabloids in the '20s, said that she was going to marry her fourth. After Browning had come 1) a Denver showman, 2) a San Francisco department-store tycoon. Groom-in-prospect: Ralph N. Willson, a former Columbus, Ohio picture-frame maker...
...Founded in 1805, after more than a dozen years of urgent petitions and civic meetings engineered by Charles Willson Peale, most popular American portrait painter of his time (post-Copley, pre-Stuart and Trumbull). An insatiable art lover, Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian. He painted portraits of most of the Founding Fathers, including some 60 studies of Washington. At his avocation as jeweler, Peale also fashioned for General Washington the wooden false teeth which caused the well-known shrunken cheeks of the Stuart portraits...
...Loos and Captain Ausnit at the three-quarter position, Jon Pritchard playing his final game at stand-off half. Commander Keith Kear of the New Zealand Royal Navy and the Law School as scrum half, and Bob Kennedy, Al Weisberg, Fred Garfield, Frank Jessop, Don Cummings, Don Hodge, Rog Willson, and Robin Worthington in the forward positions...
...only known source of information about Miss Willson is an anonymous 19th-Century letter writer. Wrote he: "These two maids left their home in the East with a romantic attachment for each other and which continued until the death of the 'farmer maid.' The artist was inconsolable, and after a brief time, removed to parts unknown...
Farmermaid. A spinster, Miss Willson painted in a Greene County, N.Y. farm cabin sometime between 1800 and 1825. The Willson watercolors are among the earliest primitives in the history of U.S. art. Miss Willson shared her farm life with a hardy settler named Miss Brundage. A kind of 19th-Century Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the two women built their own log cabin. Then, while Miss Willson sat down to paint, Miss Brundage tilled the soil. The Willson pictures were sold to farmers and other buyers as far north as Canada, as far south as Mobile. The artist...