This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the grandson of John Fraser, a Scotchman, who had settled in the State of South Carolina about 1700. He made his home in the country of the Yemassee Indians, and with his wife escaped, through the friendship of an Indian chief, the terrible massacre which commenced the great Yemassee War in 1715, when from Savannah to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the grandson of John Fraser, a Scotchman, who had settled in the State of South Carolina about 1700. He made his home in the country of the Yemassee Indians, and with his wife escaped, through the friendship of an Indian chief, the terrible massacre which commenced the great Yemassee War in 1715, when from Savannah to the Santee River the allied tribes spread death and devastation throughout the province. His son, Alexander, the father of the artist, married Mary Grimke, of a ART IN AMERICA AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE VOLUME V NUMBER II FEBRUARY MCMXVII A PORTRAIT BY FRANS HALS BY FRANK JEWETT MATHER, JR. MR. HENRY GOLDMAN, of New York, has recently acquired a fine male portrait by Frans Hals. The form, a short bust showing the hands, and the color, mostly grays tempered with yellow--a harmony so delicate as hardly to accord with the character of the sitter, point to Hals's later phase. The picture is recorded by Darres and Moes (No. 127) as in the collection of Sir Edgar Vincent at Esher. It has occasionally appeared in London at loan exhibitions. This has caused the carelessly read date to be passed on as 1631. Although the 7 is partly effaced, there can be no doubt as to the reading 1637. It is confirmed alike by the fine almost monochrome tonality and by the compositional form. It is strikingly like the Sibelius, dated 1637, which was lately in the Borden collection, and it is similar to the arrangement of the Koeijmanzoon of 1645 in the Huntington collection. It would be difficult to parallel these short, massive, carefully placed busts with hands in Hals's work before about 1633. Again the flat lace collar, strangely effeminate adornment about that manly, gorgeted throat, was still a rather new fashion in 1637. No oldish man is likely to have worn it as e...
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