painting

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/2/19
  

  ‘It’s a Beatle haircut’: historian claims 15th-century portrait is from the 1960s

  National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- The Trustees of the Sulgrave Manor Trust
  5-12-16
  

  You remember this painting of George Washington wrong

  This is what happens when you clean a painting. 

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-4-14
  

  An Ex-President, Brush in Hand, Captures His Fellow Leaders

  The world’s most distinctive gallery of world leaders, the work of George W. Bush, who took up painting after he left office, opens in Dallas on Saturday.

• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
  1-28-13
  

  Nell Irvin Painter Bids Farewell to the Past

  In 2005 the prize-winning historian Nell Irvin Painter put down her pen and picked up a paintbrush.After 17 years at Princeton University, the publication of seven groundbreaking books, and terms at the helms of two prestigious historical associations, Ms. Painter said goodbye to all that. She retired at 62 and spent $150,000 to pursue a bachelor-of-fine-arts degree from Rutgers University, followed by an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, in 2011.And although she received a Centennial Medal that same year from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for her historical work, the former professor, once described by some peers as an imperious trouble­maker who refused to be boxed in, is not particularly interested in returning to the ivory tower.In an interview here at her art studio, a few blocks from Penn Station, Ms. Painter, who is now 70, describes having given away all the books in her library. She says she'll never write another word of history....