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At Hofmann's summer school, he met fellow student Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. The couple moved into a large, airy loft in New York's Greenwich Village , where they were able to paint. They surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller , playwright Tennessee Williams ...
Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Spencer C. Tucker is an American historian who was a Fulbright scholar, retired university professor, and author of works on military history.He taught history at Texas Christian University for 30 years and held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute for six years.
February 4 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (d. 2000) [8] February 11 – Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic (d. 1996). [9] March 10 – Harry Bertoia, Italian-born American artist and furniture designer (d. 1978). [10] March 19 – Maria Austria (née Marie Karoline Oeststreicher) Austro-Dutch photographer and photojournalist ...
Robert Anthony De Niro [9] was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943, [10] the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. [11] His father was of Irish and Italian descent, [12] while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. [13]
Promoted to lieutenant general of the army on July 25, 1762, d'Estaing was also given the rank of chef d'escadre (rear admiral) in the French Navy in recognition for his exploits, a rank lesser than that he held in the army. In order to clarify his command role in the expedition, the king formally removed him from the army and gave him the rank ...
They served under Admiral Vernon in the 1741 expedition to Carthagena. [3] Then Van Braam accompanied Lawrence Washington in 1742 to the house which would become Mount Vernon . [ 3 ] After Robert Dinwiddie , the lieutenant governor of Virginia, appointed George Washington as a militia-leader for southern Virginia with the nominal rank of major ...
Elie Augustus Frederick La Vallette (May 3, 1790 – November 18, 1862) was an American military officer who served in the United States Navy from 1812 to 1862. He served during the War of 1812, in the Mediterranean and Africa Squadrons, and during the Mexican-American War.