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Gilbert Stuart’s Portrait Shows His Uncanny Ability To Capture The Personality

Abhishek Kumar DECEMBER 03, ON THIS DAY What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach. —— Gilbert Stuart Gilbert Stuart\’s Portrait by Sarah Goodridge One of the most well-known portrait artists in American history, Gilbert Stuart is best remembered for his

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Madam Tussauds: Wax museum established by Anna Maria Grosholtz

DECEMBER 01, ON THIS DAY Marie Tussaud was a renowned French wax-modeling artist and one of the nineteenth century\’s most successful career women. She established the famed Madam Tussauds wax museum in London. Madame Tussauds is a prominent tourist attraction in numerous cities, where waxworks of famous and historical persons, as well as popular film

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William Adolphe Bouguereau\’s Art Depicted Modern Interpretations Of Classical Subjects

NOVEMBER 30, ON THIS DAY “One is born an artist. The artist is a man endowed with a special nature, with a particular feeling for seeing form and color spontaneously, as a whole, in perfect harmony. If one lacks that feeling, one is not an artist and will never become an artist; and it is

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