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...contemporaries have left behind a rich and varied gallery of George Washington's portraits. To John Singleton Copley is attributed a likeness of Washington as an elegant young Colonial of 25, an 18th Century dandy in a tightly curled peruke and lace ruff. Charles Willson Peale first pictured him as a strapping colonel of Virginia militia, utterly self-confident from hard years of surveying Lord Fairfax's estates and fighting Indians in the wilderness. Again, Peale caught him flushed with victory after the Battle of Princeton. In Gilbert Stuart's famed, unfinished Athenaeum ("dollar bill") portrait, Washington is the First...
Recognized immediately by every visitor was a Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Washington showing the President's sunken cheeks caused by the wooden false teeth which Painter Charles Willson Peale made for him. Less known was a Washington at the Battle of Trenton by Stuart's contemporary, John Trumbull (1756-1843), moody son of a Connecticut Governor, who once refused a commission in Washington's army because a clerk misdated it. Best known of Painter Trumbull's works are his four big panels (The Declaration of Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation...
Last week Painter Harry Willson Watrous, 76, who specializes in small highly-finished figures, made news when he stepped out of the presidency of the National Academy of Design. Elected in his place was Norwegian-born Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), 54, academic painter of land and seascapes. President Lie's election statement to newshawks convinced Academicians that they need fear no disturbing innovations from their new administration...
...gifts from Earl Willson Bemis, retired engineer of Worcester, Massachusetts, of $50,000 each to the Astronomical Observatory and the Gray Herbarium was announced yesterday by Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of Harvard College...
...from 1922, until he went to Yale in 1931. G. B. Kistiakowsky will serve as associate professor of chemistry. H. B. Cabot '17, a Boston lawyer and a graduate of the Harvard Law School has been appointed assistant professor in the Institute of Criminal Law. B. J. Bok, a Willson Teaching Fellow at Harvard since 1930 was appointed assistant professor in Astronomy and tutor in Physical Sciences...