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; . as the .Mliright Gallery of Buffalo. How-ever, Mr. Benziger has taken the habit of makingan annual exhibition at his spacious New Yorkstudio. As far back as 1892 he was mentionedby the great art critics of Europe with suchmasters as Henner, Benjamin-Constant, Bonnat, did the old masters. The result is that his fleshtones painted twenty years ago are as fresh asthey were when the picture left the easel, and hisc
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; . as the .Mliright Gallery of Buffalo. How-ever, Mr. Benziger has taken the habit of makingan annual exhibition at his spacious New Yorkstudio. As far back as 1892 he was mentionedby the great art critics of Europe with suchmasters as Henner, Benjamin-Constant, Bonnat, did the old masters. The result is that his fleshtones painted twenty years ago are as fresh asthey were when the picture left the easel, and hiscoloring, for Mr. Benziger is a colorist, asbrilliant. NEW YORK EVENING POST, Fchruary 51895.—From the Wcstminslcr Gazette, London. A Portrait of the Pope .\t last an artist has succeeded in obtaining aportrait of the Pope as he really is. So far LeoXIII has always objected to be immortalized inany picture wearing spectacles, though as amatter of fact, he is never in ordinary life withoutthem. Spectacles, the head of the Church ofRome hath it, interfere with the artistic successof a portrait; and spectacles, therefore, he willnot wear when he is sitting to a photographer or 10. Portrait by A. Benziger THE LATE CURTIS GUILDThree times Governor of Massachusetts and ambassador to Russia artist. Not even the great Lenbach himselfwas allowed to paint the Pope other than in anunnaturally erect position and without glasses. Now at last, a Swiss artist, Mr. Benziger, hassucceeded, by a little ruse to obtain a true andvery interesting likeness of the fine head ofLeo XIII. The artist was among those whorecently obtained an audience of the Pope. Hewas one of the first to be presented, and retiredafter the ceremony, into the background, wherehe was able to do what no one yet had succeededin doing, namely, to get a sketch in profile of thePopes head in which there is absolutely no posing. Leo XIII looks an old man, with all the signs ofold age upon him, but besides these, the portraitalso
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