Word: painting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After the painting of John Harvard's statue some years ago, people said: "Yes-Harvard men win a game and then paint their founder's statue." Graduates and undergraduates alike felt the disgrace deeply, but it did seem as if such a misdemeanor would never occur again...
...Raiders" and "The Men of the Moss Hags" are quite as sadly inferior in style, in unifying principle, and in suggestion of the past. Stevenson, a little romantic, but a perfect little romantic, has not equaled himself with the great romantics, Scott and Dumas, in trying to paint upon his canvas any famous figure of history. Mr. Crockett, an imperfect little romantic, has dared Sir Watter and "Old Mortality" by placing Grahame of Claver-house in his scene. Stevenson, a perfect little romantic, has given us, notably in "The Master of Ballantrae," marvels of last-century English, shrewdly touched with...
...free of mannerisms. His make-up was distinctly better than that of any other player. Perhaps Mr. Wolff's look of the servile blackguard, Danny Mann, was almost as fit. His likeness to a cringing, cowardly villain was not all the effect of a few daubs of grease paint topped with a very black wig and a sneak thief's cap; there was something about it that displayed clever facial expression...
...Gainsborough left Bath and moved to London, a migration which was due to the well-meant but intolerable persecution of his friend Fickness. At London he was more successful than ever. The queen invited him to paint her portrait. He did it so well that he was asked to paint the portraits of all the royal family. In 1784 he sent a full length picture of the three princesses to the Royal Academy, which he requested to be hung on a line with the eye. This the officials refused to do, and the matter ended by his withdrawing the picture...
...with all its faults and beauties, but it is still most interesting from a psychological standpoint for the French artists of this period devoted all their energies to the development of the varying moods of the heart: it was suffering and torment which these men strove so successfully to paint and these characteristics of mankind have always had a most human interest, not that man might revel in the sufferings of others, but that he might learn how another has endured what he in his turn may have to bear...