Portraits painted by the artist patrushka
These images are all original, one-of-a-kind paintings, not prints. Patrushka is available for personal portraits, commissioned works and exhibitions.
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Lady Evelyn
Lady Evelyn
A watercolor study based on Evelyn Nesbit, a popular American chorus girl and artists’ model.
In the early part of the 20th century, the figure and face of Evelyn Nesbit was everywhere, appearing in mass circulation newspaper and magazine advertisements, on souvenir items and calendars, making her a cultural celebrity. She attracted the attention of the then 47-year-old architect and New York socialite Stanford White, who became her lover and dedicated benefactor. Nesbit achieved world-wide notoriety when her jealous husband, multi-millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, shot and murdered Stanford White on the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden on the evening of June 25, 1906, leading to what the press would call “The Trial of the Century”.
Title: Lady Evelyn
Size: 12″ x 16″
Medium: Watercolor on Arches paper