Word: empress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dated 1657. It is a splendidly rich piece of Rembrandt coloring and represents a thoughtful man seated in an armchair, gazing in a pensive and almost melancholy manner into the distance. The history of this superb painting can be traced back without interruption to the time of the famous Empress Catharine of Russia. This Bartholomew picture was known for a time in Russia as the "Troubetzkoy Rembrandt...
...Admitting that in such a hurried trip he must necessarily lose much of the picturesqueness and beauty of the scenery, Mr. Mears emphasized that this, however, was impossible in Japan, and threw photographs on the screen which were excellent witnesses to what he said. At Yokohama he took the "Empress of Russia" for America. A hydroplane took him ashore from the steamer to Seattle, and here he took the North Coast Limited for St. Paul. He arrived in New York on August 6 and the official record of his time was given as 35 days, 21 hours, and 25 minutes...