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; (1917) (14595425579)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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LANTIQUE Auguste Benziger A Great Painter of Portraits By H. Villiers B.\rnett Louis Robin, Redacteur en chef, Paris. There are not more than five leading portrait-painters to-day in the whole world: AugusteBenziger is one of them. He is one of them byreason of three things: The great number of hiscommissions; the social pre-eminence and, inmany cases, the world-wide interest of his sitters;and his astonishing and original technicalpowers. The powers explain the vogue. The essence of potraiture is likeness; and like-ness is the instantly striking and alluring qualityof every portrait that the one is physical, theother psychological, truth. The one, even in itssimplest, most material manifestation, involvesthe highest technical skill; the other, even at itslowest significance, involves the keenest insightinto mind and soul. For while nothing physicalis so difficult to paint as the quality of flesh,nothing spiritual is so complex and elusive asthe expression of a sitters soul. Thus, the
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Portrait iy A. Benziger Portrait by A. Benziger MR. AND MRS. JAMES HARTNESSof Springfield, VermontJames Hartness, an author and inventor, having over 100 American patents, best known as theinventor and manufacturer of the flat turret lathe; inventor of the turret equatorial telescope, andat his residence in Springfield may be seen the only underground observatory in the country. Hishonorary degrees are M. E. of the University of Vermont and M. A. of Yale University. Chair-man of the State Board of Education of Vermont. Past President of the American Society of Mechan-ical Engineers; a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and of theRoyal Astronomical Society. Member Astronomical Society of American Engineers Club, MachineryClub, Royal Society Club of London, British Institute of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, etc. business of a portrait-painter isand comprehend thesoul of his sitter and ex-press it—eloquent, lum-inous, living