Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-21 | Page 12 | Desire Portraits of "Better Art"

IDESIRE PORTRAITS OF "BETTER ART" Alleged Likenesses of Former Ministers to England Are Pronounced Unworthy. Through the objection of their descendants de-scendants to the quality of tho portraits of his predecessors, which hang on tho walls of his private oftlco, Embassador Page hopes to seeuro an improvement in the gallery. During tho past fortnight one grandson and one great-grandson have assured tho embassador with, some warmth that the presentments of their distinguished, ancestors were almost libelous, li-belous, and they offered to roplaco the offending portraits with ones which would be bettor art. if not better likenesses. like-nesses. Dr. Page assured them that such S contributions to tho artistic improve- S mont of the historic collection would be welcomed, and he expressed tho bopo that other disgruntled diplomatic de-H de-H scendants would call to examine tho pic- V turcs of their forebears. Hflj "When President Lawrence Lowell of flfll harvard university called recently upon Km the ombassador ho was almost overcome Immm when ho saw the chromo which serves to perpetuate the features of his grandfather, grand-father, Abbott Lawrence, who once represented rep-resented the United States at tho court of St. James. Tho Lowell family has always run to brains rather than beauty, but the Harvard president declared that his ancestor did not even look intelligent intelli-gent in the embassy portrait. C. C. Piuckuey "of Richmond, who called several days later, was the next protestanfr When ho saw the picture of his great-grandfather, Thomas Pinck-1103 Pinck-1103 fi1"5 regularly accredited ministor to the court of St. James from Washington, Washing-ton, he paraphrased tho saying of another an-other famous ancestor by exclaiming ""Millions for art but not one cent for chromos." Embassador Pago is now patiently awaiting the arrival of portraits of soino of his early predecessors done in the best Trumbull and Stuart styles.