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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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While Lee Duveneck’s dominant Man of the Cloth had authoritative moments, he failed to sustain his character’s fearsomeness.

From The Wall Street Journal

When the group returns, Harnage — with a glance and a reach — finds a connection with another dancer, Lee Duveneck.

From New York Times

“Paul never let you into the mystery of what the movement meant,” said Lee Duveneck, who will be performing in “Tracer.”

From New York Times

Wealthy cosmopolites, the Bootts spent most of their time in Italy — James stayed with them there — and were inseparable until the appearance of the American painter Frank Duveneck, who became Lizzie’s art teacher and, eventually, to the distress of Francis, her husband.

From New York Times

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