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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Frank Bowman (Duke University): Admiral, USN (retired); former Chief of Naval Personnel and director of Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Robert Page Waller Morris (VMI 1869): 1st Commandant of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets (1876-1877) and designer of 1st TAMU cadet regulations and uniform. [8] [5]
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]
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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 ...