Below is the hot house. In the apartment above are his flowers more freely admitted to the air, & above a summer house with every convenience. The squares are decorated with marble figures as large as life.'" The gardens extended "back to Franklin Place.
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Copley visited Philadelphia, where, at the home of Chief Justice William Allen, they "saw a fine Coppy of the Titian Venus and Holy Family at whole length as large as life from Coregio"."Copley-Pelham Letters," p. 163. On their return journey they viewed at New Brunswick, New Jersey several pictures attributed to van Dyck.
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Small oval frame for a Lion with neat carved ribband knot, gilt in burnished gold & glazed. Bronzing the figure of King James & 2 medallions. 2 antique vases with treble branches to stand on your Lordship’s Thermes. Carving 4 lions as large as life to match old ones to fix on top of the Hatfield House: ditto 4 large eagles.
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"Darden, Douglas. "Melvilla: An Architect on Moby-Dick," Melville Society Extracts, Number 91, November 1992. p. 1. After Darden's death a note of his was found in the project file box for Oxygen House that read: "Literature continues to create an agenda for representation which I deem to be pertinently as large as life. I wish architecture to have that same agenda, and literature has thus been my inspiration and, effectively, my sponsor.
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During this time, her mother Ellen's diaries shifted their focus to Rolinda's progress as an artist. In 1812, Ellen wrote of her daughter: "Rolinda commenced oil painting on the 21, & has since applied with great ardour, continuing other studies, & having lessons in music, practising &c.;" Soon thereafter in 1813, Ellen notes that she "sat for my picture to Rolinda in oil colours as large as life, kit kat size, the first portrait she painted in oil." Rolinda painted her mother several times.
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The cardinal died in 1632, leaving it to his brother, Federico Savelli (died 1649), who in his turn left it to his nephew Cardinal Fabrizio Savelli. In 1650 the Savelli collection was offered for sale to the Duke of Modena and the picture must have been sold soon thereafter. In 1798, Matthew Pilkington noted a painting in the Certosa di San Martino in Naples "by Caravaggio, representing the Denial of St. Peter, with figures at half-length and as large as life". A document of 28 September 1655 states it was sold to the Certosa by architect Cosimo Fanzago and was hung above the door to the sacristy.
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His eye was fascinated in turn by the sheen of jewelry and stained glass; and, though he soon left Toorenvliet for the workshops of Gerard Dou and Abraham van den Tempel, he acquired the Leiden fijnschilder manner over the Amsterdam finish of the disciples of Rembrandt. He seldom chose panels of which the size exceeded 12 to 15 inches, and whenever his name is attached to a picture above that size it is reasonable to assign it to his son Willem or to some other imitator. Unlike Dou when he first left Rembrandt, or Jan Steen when he started on an independent career, Mieris never ventured to design figures as large as life. Characteristic of his art in its minute proportions is a shiny brightness and metallic polish.
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He co-wrote the book for the musical play Miss Esmeralda (1887) to music by Meyer Lutz and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London.Miss Esmeralda - University of Bristol Theatre Collection - Theatricalia website His stage appearances include Bertie Fitz Bunnyon in As Large as Life (1890) at Terry's Theatre,Wearing, pg. 18 Remendado in Carmen up to Data (1890) at the Gaiety TheatreWearing, pg. 37 Tom Edge in Zephyr (1891) at the Avenue Theatre,Wearing, pg 56 touring in The Circus Girl (1897),The Circus Girl - Footlight Notes Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Prince’s Theatre in Manchester (1900) with Ada Reeve and G. P. Huntley,Neville Cardus, Second Innings: Autobiographical Reminiscences (London: Collins, 1950), pp. 23-34 in the Comedy Oddity ‘Mashing the Misses’ (1904) at the Argyle Music Hall in Birkenhead,Argyle Theatre Collection - University of Sheffield Adolphus Dudd in The Girl Behind the Counter (1906),The Girl Behind the Counter - University of Kent Theatre Collection Valet in The Hon'ble Phil with Denise Orme and G. P. Huntley at the Hicks Theatre (1908),Denise Orme (1884-1960) - Stage Beauty website and Swaak in A Persian Princess (1909).
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