Excerpt from Portraits of Great Men and Women of Our Time: With Interesting Testimonials by the Most Prominent Art Critics and Leading Men of Intellect of France, England, Switzerland and America<br><br>Mr. Benziger is a portrait painter. He aims to get a likeness of the person he is painting and in that likeness he aims to get the strong characteristics of the person - oi the face. And the pose is largely dictated by the strongest characteristic of the person.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.