Identifier: portraitsofgreat00benzrich (find matches)
Title: Portraits of great men and women of our time; with interesting testimonials by the most prominent art critics and leading men of intellect of France, England, Switzerland and America;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Benziger, August
Subjects: Portraits
Publisher: (New York, Wynkoop Hallenberk Crawford Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nday,February 9,1902. By Special Cable from Paris. The annual picture show of the Cercle UnionArtistique, commonly known as the Epatant,comprises S5 pictures, of which 35 are portraits.Indeed portraiture is pre-eminent, not only inquantity, but in quality. The portrait of a ladyin black, by Dagnan Bouveret, has grace anddistinction. Chartrans portrait of Mrs. Knightis bright and pleasing. Gabriel Ferreirs por-trait of Gaston Boissier is pronounced thestrongest work that the painter has done. Bcn- You will view with awe the giant M^then, pierc-ing with double apex the Northern heavens, andwhile your eye is held by the Alpine glow of thesejagged summits you behold the snow-crownedpeaks of Old Urirothstock, king of the mightychain of mountains that enthrone him, grandestof them all. Forsake the border road, yield not to thetemptations of the luxurious Grand Hotel ofBrunnen, till you have pushed on straightupwards into the woods, and reached the chaletperched on the shoulder of the cliff.
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pin tiiiit hi/ A. i:i ■ ■ I PRESIDENT F(JRRERThe democratic President of Switzerland, whose portrait was painted by Mr. Benziger at his studio in Brunnen, Switzerland 15 Mount the turret step? cut in natixe rock, tillyou stand at the door of the atelier of the famousSwiss painter, Monsieur lienziger. You knock!Palette in hand the artist advances to f^ive youwelcome. Like every American you feel yourheart j^o out toward him for his masterly por-trait of the re\cred McKinley, painted in theWhite House for \ice-President Hobart. An Eloquent Canvas You confess your intense desire for a glimpseof that crowning creation of his art, the portraitof Theodore Roose\elt. A big easel is swungaside, and you stand looking into the face,seemingly not of a picture of the President, butof Mr. Roosevelt himself. He appears to stepdown from the canvas and come forward in allhis uniciue virile personality, that he may greetyou heartily. His presen,ce fills the room, anddominates it. You forget Monsie

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