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Identifier: earlyenglish00amer (find matches)
Title: Early English portraits and other paintings
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: F.A.G. Hood, Esq G.F.W. Hood, Esq
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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RAIT OF JOHN GURNEY, JUNIOR Height, 30 inches; width, 24% inches Exhibited at the British Institution under the title The Lit-tle Flute Player. John Gurney, Jr., son of John Gurney of Earlham and Statira Hood. A fancy portrait of him appearsalso in The Fortune Teller, by Opie. A bright-faced boy well on his way to young manhood is en-joying himself playing the flute. He is pictured seated at thefoot of a great tree, which at the left merges with a nebulousbackground while on the right appears a landscape, with adistant figure disappearing down a path leading towardwooded land. The young Gurney is seen at three-quarterslength, clad in brown, with a black stock and upstanding col-lar, and a little old mans cap of yellow fur with black visor.Holding his flute ready for the next note, he pauses to lookup at the spectator, with a bright eye and a smile, the sunlightfull upon his chubby and rosy face and casting the shadow ofhis visor upon his forehead. Beside him is a book and roll ofmusic.
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Xo. 34 SIR HENRY RAEBURN Scotch: 1756—1823 THE HON MRS. Bl SHELL Height, .50 inches; width, 25 inches Exhibited at the Raeburn Exhibition, Edinburgh, 187(>, underthe anonymous title, The Old Lady with the Large Cap.Praised by Robert Louis Stevenson in Virginibus Puerisque,in the essay, Some Portraits by Rabeurn: There are some capital old women . . . such as Mrs. ColinCampbell of Park, or the anonymous Old Lady with a LargeCap, which are done in the same frank, perspicacious spirit asthe very best of his men. He could look into their eyes with-out trouble; and he was not withheld by any bashful senti-mentalism from recognizing what he saw there and unsparinglyputting it down upon canvas. The perspicacity and frankness are seen at a glance. Thehonorable lady is portrayed at three-quarter length, comfort-ably seated, looking directly at the spectator, her aged fea-tures eloquent of life and her keen eyes revealing a spirit un-daunted, almost expressing a challenge, unafraid of herp

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