Show MRS BENJAMIN D WOODWARD the most beautiful of created be ings madam I 1 must paint your por trait it shall make us famous for ever that was the unconventional re made by thadde is on being presented to mrs benjamin D wood ward for painters like poets have li cense but the object of the artists outspoken admiration was unprepared for such a test mony to her loveliness she is only 19 years old and a bride of six months she dropped rather than sat on a convenient chair and stared at the appreciative painter in wide eyed wonder then came ex plantations pla nations a tentative consent and now mrs woodward whose husband was commissioner general to the paris exposition is having her tea tures reproduced on canvas the artist H J thaddeus arrived in this country for his first visit in the middle of the winter and has on ex hibi tion at knoedler s art gallery in new york portraits of the new pope of cardinal merry del val sir H timer durand the british dor to washington and of mrs corll lard ronalds and mrs philip lydig |