It Happened on
May 19, 1916
Two Portraits
The Princess Lwoft-Parlaghy has been giving a private view of two recently-painted portraits, one is of John Burroughs and is the best of the artist’s works so far as they have been shown to the public. It is sympathetically seen and is executed with a technical resource quite adequate to expressing the character of the subjects.
The low-toned browns and grays with their rellet of dull red suggest a palette that has ceased to appeal to the younger artist. but the tonal envelope is managed expertly and the result is a truly beautiful interpretation from which all hints of a Lenbach tradition have disappeared.
The right hand holding an old parchment book is, indeed, worthy of the far greater master, Leibl.
The portrait of Colonel Church, which was the immedlate occasion of the ex-hibition, is in a lustier vein, a very down. right performance and an excellent likeness.
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People featured in this post:
Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
Her serene Highness - Prolific portraitist of notable Europeans and Americans
John Burroughs
American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.