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Duveneck

[ doo-vuh-nek ]

noun

  1. Frank Frank Decker, 1848–1919, U.S. painter and teacher.


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Example Sentences

When the group returns, Harnage — with a glance and a reach — finds a connection with another dancer, Lee Duveneck.

“Paul never let you into the mystery of what the movement meant,” said Lee Duveneck, who will be performing in “Tracer.”

Wealthy cosmopolites, the Bootts spent most of their time in Italy — James stayed with them there — and were inseparable until the appearance of the American painter Frank Duveneck, who became Lizzie’s art teacher and, eventually, to the distress of Francis, her husband.

From the early 1880s comes a still life by Lizzie Boott, possibly done under Duveneck’s eye, and one by Duveneck himself: a flattering likeness of Francis Boott as a Titianesque grandee.

Finally, the presence in the Morgan gallery of a bronze cast of the effigy made by Duveneck for Lizzie’s tomb — she died, suddenly, in 1888 — brings the story, told entirely through images, to a close.

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