Art: Portraitist

Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show...

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