speaking of Darby Suckling

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/30/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yesterday i saw the Van Eyck portrait of Sir John Suckling at the Frick
> Museum.
>
> Interesting.....he looked like his name.....young......dandyish with lots of
> curly hair  and holding a copy of Shakespeare, complete works in size......
> (a short time after Shakespeare's death)

Believe it or not, running across that portrait was the highlight of
my first trip to New York.  The Frick was the second last of the 15
museums I hit in 10 days (plus a dozen films, plus ...), an
afterthought on a Friday afternoon.  I had no idea it (OR that Hans
Holbein the Younger Thomas More, or that Renoir with the woman with
the muff and the little girl, or ...).  I burst out laughing when I
looked up after walking through the nearby doorway, and later bought
every copy of the postcard they had out ...

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