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Duveneck

American  
[doo-vuh-nek] / ˈdu vəˌnɛk /

noun

  1. Frank Frank Decker, 1848–1919, U.S. painter and teacher.


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Despite his deep aesthetic investment in these people, James never warmed up to the “terribly earthy and unlicked” Duveneck.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2017

From the early 1880s comes a still life by Lizzie Boott, possibly done under Duveneck’s eye, and one by Duveneck himself: a flattering likeness of Francis Boott as a Titianesque grandee.

From New York Times Jul. 6, 2017

Barnes and Bass improvised, ending up in front of “Tomb Effigy of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck,” a bronze statue made by her surviving husband, Frank Duveneck, in 1891.

From The New Yorker Jan. 16, 2017

A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals.

From Time Magazine Archive

A group of men, including Duveneck, Chase and Shirlaw, went to Munich whence they brought home a solid, painter-like technique and a sober tonality.

From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Breck, Joseph

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