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[[start page]] [[centered]] Art Critics of New York [[Red calings?]] To my Wife the grandest critic living a woman with a heart a brain and a swift courage to express. not an art critic - and so removed from the common [[scaths?]] [[/centered]] profile charcoal portrait of Carol front spheres charcoal heads of Mrs Nelson [[Cafton?]] Cole Bowdoin Sunday ^[[insert]] 29 [[/insert]] 30 Dec Have fine dinner at home with Carol and the kids fine roast chicken dressed Monday 30 Dec stop at Babcocks meet Bowdoin there and Mrs Machefert Coritssoz's assistant on the "Tribune". Bowdoin asks if I'd have time to do some book reviews for Harpers. Babcock comes in for a minute says he's going home to the country over New Years stay till week fr Monday. Stop at [[Bourgions?] and B asks me into his inner private galley to see a bronze by Renoir! nude woman very heavy but very human full of "nature." [[Bourgoine?]] says Anisfelds show at Brooklyn was too big that Anisfeld himself planned the thing and had the resource I suppose from this that Brenton was merely hired and paid for the catalog and now I see how it all came on. Brinton's interest was of course for himself. In a very short time a [[end page]] [[start page]] 118 V 3 large vol. NYPL Witenkampt Dep. Engs from works of Sir Jos. Reynolds Prt. by Hodgson & Graves plate 14 portrait of Margaret Wilks Lady Beaumont ("in her own poss." at Coleorton.) This is [[underlined]] remarkable! [[/underlined]] Is Copley a plagiarist. This portrait has the same pose, lighting & arrangement of hair & black satin gown low neck that [[strikethrough]] ch [[/strikethrough]] Copleys Mrs. Hay has. Face is of course different but [[strikethrough]] arr [[/strikethrough]] the bust and hair extremely like. Copleys canvass is not [[T this square &?]] it is obvious Rs was painted first though must be certain of this. This is not so like as the Marlboro is like Mrs Rogers but is near enough to remark. 23 Rs. E. Spenser Duke of Marlboro is a beautiful 3/4 standing worthy of Van Dyke fine eng by S W Reynolds full l Lord Robt Manners [[Edith?]] Emily Countess Kildare has the pattern of certain Copley 3/4 hand in lap. hand at cheek [[left margin]] * [[/left margin]] p 58 Adm Barrington Good head not such a character as Copleys smuggler more English Copley very Irish [[Dr C Armstong?]] My God! Copley is no plagiarist but this is certain neither was Reynolds, but swindling dealers have had pictures forged as by Reynolds which are almost straight copies of Copley with a
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Here is a link to an entry on Royal Coritssoz, art critic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Cortissoz
Here is a link to the book "engravings from the works of Sir Jos. Reynolds" by Hodgson & Graves: https://books.google.com/books/about/Engravings_from_the_Works_of_Sir_Joshua.html?id=asC5rQEACAAJ