A small notice heralding a new portrait painted by the British painter William Orpen (1878 – 1931), which depicted the likeness of the popular American stage actress, Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn (Edna May Pettie 1878 – 1948). The reviewer compared the portrait styles of Orpen to that of London’s reigning portrait painter, John Singer Sargent:
“Sargent had a way of showing his sitters as they didn’t think they looked. On the other hand, Orpen has a trick of making his sitters look like what they would like to be.”
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