. Review of reviews and world's work. ELEANOKA DUSK AM) LENBACHS LITTLE DAUGHTER, MARION. (From a painting by Lenbach.) temporary Review (London) for June by SidneyWhitman. Referring to the thought that Len-bachs work will hand down to the coming gen-erations the dominant personalities of a gloriouBperiod in German history, this writer recallsPrince Bismarcks declaration that it pleasedhim to feel that he would be known hereafter by means of Lenbaclf s portraits. On the otherhand, it may be said that the artist himself isknown outside of Germany largely because ofthe fact that he painted Bisma
. Review of reviews and world's work. ELEANOKA DUSK AM) LENBACHS LITTLE DAUGHTER, MARION. (From a painting by Lenbach.) temporary Review (London) for June by SidneyWhitman. Referring to the thought that Len-bachs work will hand down to the coming gen-erations the dominant personalities of a gloriouBperiod in German history, this writer recallsPrince Bismarcks declaration that it pleasedhim to feel that he would be known hereafter by means of Lenbaclf s portraits. On the otherhand, it may be said that the artist himself isknown outside of Germany largely because ofthe fact that he painted Bismarck, although theIron Chancellor was only one of many exaltedpersonages whose portraits were painted byLenbach. It is said that no artist of his timewas less impressed by rank, and he refusedalmost as many commissions as he Whitman states that he declined an invita-tion from the Emperor Alexander IT I. to cometo St. Petersburg, and he once showed KH VN/. VON LENBACH. (From a painting by himself.) LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 105 Whitman a telegram from Cecil Rhodes sum-moning him to come to London to paint hisportrait with the impatient exclamation. ?• Lethim come to Munich. It has been remarked of Lenbach that the workof his later years surpassed his earlier produc-
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