Frank Duveneck . sbeautiful handmade paper. Bacher revealedthe secret to the two startled artists in a whis-per. Doubtful whether he was merely joking,they nevertheless set out gamely for the mar-ket, where to their satisfaction they did find theexquisite paper which was used by a couple ofwomen to wrap up butter. Whistler, who alsoheard about this, was not slow in laying in asmuch of a stock of the paper as he could get. In 1886 Duveneck was married to Miss Eliza-beth Boott, of Boston, herself a painter of dis-tinction. Miss Boott was born in Boston, and,having lost her mother while still a v
Frank Duveneck . sbeautiful handmade paper. Bacher revealedthe secret to the two startled artists in a whis-per. Doubtful whether he was merely joking,they nevertheless set out gamely for the mar-ket, where to their satisfaction they did find theexquisite paper which was used by a couple ofwomen to wrap up butter. Whistler, who alsoheard about this, was not slow in laying in asmuch of a stock of the paper as he could get. In 1886 Duveneck was married to Miss Eliza-beth Boott, of Boston, herself a painter of dis-tinction. Miss Boott was born in Boston, and,having lost her mother while still a very youngchild, was taken by her father to Florence, tolive with two of her aunts. Later she went toParis to study painting with Couture and livedwith his family. At the age of eighteen shecame to America and studied with William FLORENTINE FLOWER GIRL1887 Bathed in the sunshine of outdoors. The form expression and thebrush-work reflect the influence upon him of the modern Frenchpainters point of view and FLORENTINE FLOWER GIRL1887 FRANK DUVENECK 65 Morris Hunt, who had been a pupil of Couturebefore falling so strongly under the influenceof Millet. About this time Duvenecks one-man show was held in Boston and was greatlyadmired by Miss Boott; so much so that sheinduced her father to purchase the portrait ofMr. Adams, which is now in the CincinnatiMuseum. Duvenecks various portraits of hiswife reveal a character refined, womanly, andat the same time marked by firmness, and thislatter quality was clearly demonstrated in thepresent instance. Miss Boott determined notonly to own the portrait of Mr. Adams, but tostudy with the man who had painted it. Ac-cordingly she and her father sought out Du-veneck in Munich in 1879, their cab drawingup at the door when he was in the very act ofclosing his studio to go to Polling, having got so far, it is not remarkablethat the young artists lack of enthusiasm overteaching a young girl should have been over-come, so he advis
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