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The Greatest Brush recounts the extraordinary life of an American artist, Frank Duveneck (1848-1919), whose versatility and talent have awed art lovers for generations. Successful as a young painter in Europe, an adherent of the Realism style, Duveneck excelled in portraiture, won prizes for his Rembrandt-like canvases, and founded schools for painters in Munich and Florence. He and his students, the Duveneck Boys, were the toast of Florence, then the capital of Italy. No one-trick pony, Duveneck adapted his natural abilities to landscapes, etching, sculpture, murals, and to new trends. Continued here….