Drinker became Beaux's role model, and she continued lessons with Drinker for a year.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

" Though overshadowed by Mary Cassatt and relatively unknown to museum-goers today, Beaux's craftsmanship and extraordinary output were highly regarded in her time.

In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as " after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life.

" The Civil War years were particularly challenging, but the extended family survived despite little emotional or financial support from Beaux's father.

Portrait of Mrs. Jedidiah H. Richards ( Beaux's cousin Julia Leavitt ), 1895.

Lady George Darwin, Beaux's pastel portrait of the former Martha du Puy of Philadelphia, who married Sir George Darwin.

By 1900 the demand for Beaux's work brought clients from Washington, D. C., to Boston, prompting the artist to move to New York City ; it was there she spent the winters, while summering at Green Alley, the home and studio she had built in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

( Bernard ) Berenson, Mrs. Coates tells me, stood in front of the portraits – Miss Beaux's three – and wagged his head.

* Cecilia Beaux's Contemporaries Judged Her to Be the Cat's Meow ; History Sees a Bit of a Chameleon, The Washington Post, March 9, 2008, washingtonpost. com

I had long since begun to lose my general innocence when I lost my trust in you, but this special innocence I lost before ever I loved, through my discovery that one could tremble with desire and even experience a flaming delight that had nothing, nothing whatever to do with friendship or liking, let alone with love.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

It was unexpected, unexpected because Lilly walked with her head bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to look into your face.

Lines 23-36 of Lycidas later point to a friendship with Edward King, who entered Christ's College 9 June 1626.

Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

Dickens not only reveals character through gesture, he makes hands a crucial element of the plot, a means of clarifying the structure of the novel by helping to define the hero's relations with all the major characters, and a device for ordering such diverse themes as guilt, pursuit, crime, greed, education, materialism, enslavement ( by both people and institutions ), friendship, romantic love, forgiveness, and redemption.

Cape Verde signed a friendship accord with Angola in December 1975, shortly after Angola gained its independence.

He had a close friendship with " Antoninus ", possibly Antoninus Pius, who would consult Rabbi Judah on various worldly and spiritual matters.

The Vipava Valley, through which Alboin led the Lombards into ItalyAs a precautionary move Alboin strengthened his alliance with the Avars, signing what Paul calls a foedus perpetuum (" perpetual treaty ") and what is referred to in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani as a pactum et foedus amicitiae (" pact and treaty of friendship "), adding that the treaty was put down on paper.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

Although Amasis thus appears first as champion of the disparaged native, he had the good sense to cultivate the friendship of the Greek world, and brought Egypt into closer touch with it than ever before.

He also entered into a league with Jason of Pherae, and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens.

He mourns the deaths of both Sariputta, with whom he enjoyed a close friendship, and the Buddha.

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

Through Sven Markelius, Aalto became a member of the Congres Internationaux d ' Architecture Moderne ( CIAM ), attending the second congress in Frankfurt in 1929 and the fourth congress in Athens in 1933, where he established a close friendship with László Moholy-Nagy, Sigfried Giedion and Philip Morton Shand.

The children made little attempt to mix with others outside the parsonage, but relied on each other for friendship and companionship.

Between the younger son, Giuseppe Falier, and the artist a friendship commenced which terminated only with life.

A childhood friend ( and distant relative ) of W. S. Gilbert, Beckett briefly feuded with Gilbert in 1869, but the two patched up the friendship, and Gilbert even later collaborated on projects with Beckett's brother.

While Richard was at Warwick's estate, he developed a close friendship with Francis Lovell, which would remain strong for the rest of his life.

According to medieval scholar Richard Zeikowitz, the Green Knight represents a threat to homosocial friendship in his medieval world.

Comedian Richard Lewis stated that Keaton was his prime inspiration, and spoke of having a close friendship with Keaton's widow Eleanor.

Patrick O ' Brian, CBE ( 12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000 ), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey – Maturin series of novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars and centred on the friendship of English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish – Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

The building featured in the BBC Four 2010 series Churches: How to read them, in which Dr Richard Taylor named it as one of his ten favourite churches, saying: " If buildings have an aura, this one radiated friendship.

It is rumoured that before he left, Richard gave Tancred a sword he claimed was Excalibur in order to secure their friendship.

Fossett became well known in the United Kingdom for his friendship with billionaire Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group sponsored some of Fossett's adventures.

Koppel returned in 1968 to cover the campaign of Richard Nixon, before becoming Hong Kong bureau chief, and US State Department correspondent, where Koppel formed a good friendship with Henry Kissinger.

There he ultimately entered the Anglican Church, having studied theology at Oxford and made the friendship of Thomas Arnold, John Henry Newman and Richard Whately.

According to Hoover's biographer Richard Hack, Hoover pursued Lamour romantically, but she was initially interested only in friendship with him.

His friendship with Greene drew Nashe into the Harvey controversy, involving the brothers Richard and Gabriel Harvey.

At Hayes's funeral on March 17, 1987, former president Richard Nixon delivered the eulogy before a crowd of 1, 400, acknowledging the friendship that had begun between the two during his second term as vice president.

Van Doren upended critical impression the film left regarding his engaged friendship with Congressional investigator Richard Goodwin while he was Twenty Ones reigning champion ( and as Herb Stempel had begun his bid to expose the show's rigging ).

Tickell's success in literature, as in life, was largely due to the friendship of Joseph Addison, who procured for him ( 1717 ) an under-secretaryship of state, to the chagrin of Richard Steele, who from then on bore a grudge against Tickell.

Senior was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford ; at the university he was a private pupil of Richard Whately, afterwards archbishop of Dublin, with whom he remained connected by ties of lifelong friendship.

The cultural contacts with the Muslim Kingdoms that he visited and battled with, his friendship with his brother in Law Richard the Lionheart and his sister Blanca's Court of Troyes, at the time the most refined in Europe, must have left an important influence on the King's personal intellect, bringing to him an advantageous outlook from the one well set already by their father at his youth, full however with peccadilloes and other impetuous extravaganza.

Through a friendship with Pat Buchanan, McLaughlin became a war supporter and a speech writer and advisor to U. S. President Richard Nixon.

In 1955, Williams met and developed a friendship with Little Richard Penniman, who was recording at the time in New Orleans.

After the board developed a plan to refinance debt and a long term financial strategy, Richard Fisk resigned in June 2010 due to his close friendship with Ricky Stuart and a failure to refresh the commercial area of the club.

He adapted from the Spanish a comedy, Love in a Veil ( acted 1718, printed 1719 ), which gained him the friendship of Sir Richard Steele and of Robert Wilks.

Longworth developed a genuine friendship with Richard Nixon when he was vice president, and when he returned to California after Eisenhower's second term, Longworth kept in touch and did not consider his political career to be over.

While attending Solihull School, he began a lifelong friendship with Richard Jago.

He defended Richard Nixon throughout the Watergate affair ; his close personal friendship with Gerald R. Ford ensured a good relationship with Nixon's successor.

Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of Human, All Too Human “ to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death, May 30, 1778 .” Instead of a preface, the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes ’ Discourse on the Method.