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Show A l-alntrr of !' In these days of very personal Jonr-nal.sm. Jonr-nal.sm. Kndolf I-ehr.iann. who attained t the a?e of 81 on Aug. 1. can not be J said to be vtry well known to the man in the street. Yet the veteran la the nio.-t illustrious portrait painter l:v- , Ing. nnl the number of distinguished people who havj sat to him Is simply amazing. Fur example, there Is th Prince of WaVs. who smoked a great deal while undergoing the or.'eal; and other sitter have been Mr. Gladstone, the Duko of Cambric! -te. Fope Plus IX.. Lord Tennyson. Cardinal Manning. Man-ning. Browning, and the p.'isent Lord Warwick, who was th.-n 2 yar old. Mr. Lehmann also painted Lord I"iga-ton. I"iga-ton. when the president of the Koyal Academy was aboat 23 years old. LorJ Le.L'hton was bom 11 years after the veteran artist and died four j ears ao. Mr. Lejrr.ann was born at Hamburg, and It was not till that he set tled In Indon. For 16 years previously previous-ly he had lived 1n Rome, where om I of bis pictures hal become well known, j London Tit-n.t. |