John Singer Sargent - John Singer Sargent Self Portrait oil painting, 1907 John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 - April 14, 1925) was a painter especially known for his fine portraits. He is usually considered an American artist, although he spent most of his life in Europe. Sargent was born in Florence, Italy to USA parents. He studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Carolus Duran. His portraits are remarkable for subtly capturing the individuality and personality of the sitters; his most ardent admirers think he is equaled in this only by Velázquez. Sargent's Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), done in 1884, is now considered one of his finest works, but it aroused so much negative reaction in Paris at the time that it prompted.
John D. Rockefeller - John D. Rockefeller 1917 painting by John Singer Sargent John Davison Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 - May 23, 1937), an American capitalist and philanthropist. He was born in Richford, New York to William Avery Rockefeller (November 13, 1810 - May 11, 1906) and his wife Eliza Davison(September 12, 1813 - March 28, 1889). In 1853 his family moved to Strongville, Ohio. After 1857 he lived in Cleveland, Ohio, where he had begun to work as a bookkeeper in 1855. In 1858 he went into the produce commission business. His firm, Clark & Rockefeller, invested in an oil refinery in 1862, and in 1865 Rockefeller sold out his share to his partner Clark, paid $72,500 for a larger share in another refinery, and formed the partnership of.
January 12 - Family debuts on CBS. 1971 - "Harrisburg Six": The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, DC. 1976 - UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization. 1986 - Space shuttle Columbia takes-off with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz. 1991 - Persian Gulf War: An act of the United States Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1995 - Malcolm X's daughter, Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan. 1998 - 19 European nations agree to forbid human cloning. Births 1628 - Charles Perrault, folklorist (†1703) 1729 -.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - furniture, textiles, ceramics, prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, jewelry, Japanese screens and architectural elements set into the building. It is particularly rich in Italian Renaissance paintings, as well as in 19th-century works by John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler. The first Matisse to enter an American collection is housed there. The Gardner Museum is much admired for the intimate atmosphere in which its works of art are displayed and its flower-filled courtyard. The museum was established by Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1928), a wealthy patron of the arts. On night of March 18, 1990, thieves broke into the museum and stole a dozen works of art, including a work by Vermeer ("The Concert") and three Rembrandts. It is considered the biggest art theft in US history and remains unsolved. In her.
Villa Torlonia - exotic parts of the world. Villa Torlonia, the most famous 'English' landscape garden in Italy, became a part of the public park system of Rome in 1978. Villa Torlonia, Rome. At Frascati the grand Baroque terraced gardens and fountains of the Villa Torlonia, Frascati, bought by prince Torlonia in the 19th century, provided subjects for watercolors by the American painter John Singer Sargent. The land the Villa was built on belonged to the Abbey of Grottaferrata, which donated it in 1563 to Annibal Caro, who commissioned a small villa where he spent the last years of his life, translating the Aeneid. (In 1896, Prince Leopoldo Torlonia placed a memorial stone to remember this event.) In 1571, Beatrice Cenci bought the villa, which passed in 1596 to Cardinal Tolomeo Galli, Secretary of.
Frederick Law Olmsted - Olmsted also designed the World Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago, Illinois. Frederick Law Olmsted oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895 Born in Hartford, Connecticut to a wealthy dry-goods merchant and the daughter of a farmer Olmsted was fascinated with nature from his youth. He studied agricultural science and engineering at Yale. After sailing to China in 1843 for a year he worked on his farm in Connecticut. Finally he moved to New York City and ran a 130 acre experimental scientific farm on Staten Island that his father acquired for him in January 1848 named ‘’The Woods of Arden’‘ previously owned by Erastus Wiman, Olmsted renamed it Tosomock Farm. Considering himself a man of letters he also had a career in journalism that included co-founding The Nation. He was.
Elizabeth Bibesco - expressing their concern for her health, have referred to her charm of manner and to the interest which she has begun already to show in political matters." As a teenager, during World War I, she was given opportunities to do "good works", organizing and performing in "matinees" for the servicemen. Her first known literary effort was a short duologue called "Off and On" which she performed with Nelson Keys in 1916 at the Palace Theatre. In the same year she organized a large show of portraits by John Singer Sargent at the Grafton Galleries to aid the Art Fund and a "Poets' Reading" in aid of the Star and Garter Fund. In 1919 she married Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1951),a Romanian diplomat stationed in London, a man twenty-two years her senior. She.
1856 - showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths Events January 8 - Borax is discovered (John Veatch). January 29 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross February 18 - The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore. March 30 - The Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the Crimean War April 7 - Foundation of Nelson College, Nelson, New Zealand May 21 - Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces. May 22 - Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas"). Sumner was unable.
1925 - its first issue. March 4 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcasted on radio. March 13 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. May 25 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. May 25 - The National Forensics League is founded. June 13 - Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion is sent across 5 miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the Bureau of Standards, the U.S. Navy, the Commerce Department, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
1976 in music - for seven Brunswick Records and Dakar Records employees. The record company employees are charged with stealing more than $184,000 in royalties from artists. February 15 - Bette Midler bails seven members of her entourage out of jail after they are arrested on charges of cocaine and marijuana possession January 19 - Concert promoter Bill Sargent makes an offer of $30 million to the Beatles if they would reunite for a concert February 19 - Former Tower of Power lead singer Rich Stevens is arrested and charged with the drug related murders of three men in San Jose, California. February 20 - Kiss gets their footprints added to the sidewalk outside Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater. February 24 - The Eagles Their Greatest Hits compilation becomes the first album in history to be.
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - by Austin Stong Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway from a play by Rida Johnson Young The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn from the play Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations. 1928/29 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly from a play by Ashley Dukes translated from the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky The Cop - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson In Old Arizona - Tom Barry from the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly from a play by Frederick Lonsdale The Leatherneck - Elliott.
Academic art - Criticism and Legacy Academic art was first criticised for its use of idealism, by Realist artists such as Gustave Courbet, as being based on clichés and representing fantasies and tales of ancient myth while real social concerns were being ignored. Another criticism of Realists was the "false surface" of paintings--the objects depicted looked smooth, slick, and idealized--showing no real texture. The Realist Theodule Augustin Ribot worked against this by experimenting with rough, unfinished textures in his paintings. This Year Venuses Again... Always Venuses! Honoré Daumier, no. 2 from series in Le Charivati, 1864 Impressionists, who were associated with loose brushstrokes, likewise criticized the smooth finish of Academic art. Actually, such loose brushstrokes were also part of the academic process. When artists started planning a painting, they would first make drawings and.
April 14 - English domination in northern France. 1632 - Battle of Rain, Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. 1828 - Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary 1860 - The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies 1910 - President William Howard Taft begins the tradition of throwing out the first baseball on opening day 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage - it finishes sinking at about 2:20 am the next day. 1931 - Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
Cecilia Beaux - Beaux is an American society portraitist, in the nature of John Singer Sargent..
Chelsea, London - of George IV. According to Encyclopedia Britannica "the better residential portion of Chelsea is the eastern, near Sloane Street and along the river; the western, extending north to Fulham Road, is mainly a poor quarter". And it is so today. The memorials in the churchyard of St Luke near the river, known as the Old Church, illustrate much of the history of Chelsea. These include Lord and Lady Dacre (1594—1595); Sir John Lawrence (1638); Lady Jane Cheyne (1698); Francis Thomas, "director of the china porcelain manufactory"; Sir Hans Sloane (1753); Thomas Shadwell, poet laureate (1692). Sir Thomas More's tomb is also there. Chelsea was once famous for the manufacture of Chelsea buns (a Chelsea bun is made from a long strip of sweet pastry tightly coiled, with currants trapped between the.
November 9 - Sachs, and Salomon Smith Barney) to pay investors who claim they were cheated in a wide-spread price-fixing scheme on the NASDAQ. 2002 - In Los Angeles, California, television and film actor Merlin Santana is shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's car parked on the 3800 block of Victoria Avenue. 2003 - A total lunar eclipse is seen in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Central Asia. 2003 - A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has killed 17 people, during the holy month of Ramadan. This attack comes amid tensions within the kingdom with a surge of Islamic extremism militancy. It has been attributed to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror organisation. Births 1522 - Martin Chemnitz, theologian (†1586) 1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist.
Madame X - is. He finds himself defending her without knowing her background. All are adaptations of the novel and play La Femme X by Alexandre Bisson. The 1916 version stars Dorothy Donnelly, John Bowers, Edwin Forsberg and Ralph Morgan. It was directed by George F. Marion. The 1920 version stars Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh and Casson Ferguson. It was adapted by J.E. Nash and Frank Lloyd. It was directed by Lloyd. One of the more famous versions is from 1929. It stars Ruth Chatterton, Lewis Stone and Raymond Hackett. It was adapted by Willard Mack and directed by Lionel Barrymore. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ruth Chatterton) and Best Director. The 1937 stars Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal and Reginald Owen. It was adapted.
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List of painters - (1527-1593) Jean Arp, (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet John James Audubon, (1785-1851), naturalist, illustrator Jean-Michel Atlan, (1913-1960 Frank Auerbach (1931-) Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) Milton Avery, (1885-1965), USA painter B Marcello Bacciarelli, Polish painter Francis Bacon (painter), (1909-1992), British Artist William Jacob Baer, (1860-1941), American painter Albert Baertsoen, (born 1866), Flemish painter, etcher Ludolf Bakhuysen (1631-1708) Hans Baldung (1484-1545) Robert Ballagh, painter, Aosdána Vincenzo Balsamo, (born 1935), Italian painter, etcher Balthus (1908-2001) (Count Balthasas Klossowski de Rola) Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828-1901) Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine (1888-1944) Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (1591-1666), Italian painter. Ernie Barnes (1938- ) Geoffrey Barnes (1972- ) James Barry, British painter Hans von Bartels, (1856-1913), German painter Richmond Barthe (1901- c.1990) Jennifer Bartlett (1941- ) Fra Bartolommeo (1474-1517) Francesco Bartolozzi (1728-1815) Georg Baselitz, (born 1938), painter and sculptor Marie Bashkirtseff, (1860-1884),.
List of people from the United States - also politicians 7 Music 8 Politicians 9 Scientists 10 Writers 11 Other Notables Artists Ansel Adams Edward Hopper Jackson Pollock John Singer Sargent Andy Warhol Entrepreneurs John Jacob Astor Andrew Carnegie William C. Durant Henry Ford Bill Gates H. L. Hunt J. P. Morgan John D. Rockefeller Cornelius Vanderbilt Filmmakers Frank Capra Walt Disney Max Fleischer John Frankenheimer William Friedkin John Ford David Wark Griffith Ron Howard Stanley Kramer George Lucas Steven Spielberg Orson Welles Billy Wilder Inventors David Bruce -- Pivotal typecaster 1838 George E. Clymer -- Columbian Printing Press 1813 Thomas Edison -- phonograph, many others Philo Farnsworth -- Television Benjamin Franklin Buckminster Fuller-- Dymaxion house Cyrus McCormick -- Mechanical reaper Samuel F. B. Morse -- Telegraph Eli Whitney -- Cotton gin, interchangeable parts A. Baldwin Wood -- Pumps.
