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Family Moved: Chippendale was born about 1718 at Otley, Yorkshire, the descendant of a family of joiners and cabinetmakers. He served his apprenticeship under his father, who about 1727 moved the family business to London. Shortly after his marriage to Catherine Renshaw in 1748, Thomas Chippendale opened his own cabinet-making shop in Conduit Lane. In 1753 he moved to 60 St. Martin's Lane, a center of furniture making in London where he remained thereafter.
RACHEL, ra-sheT (real name £LISA FELIX), French actress: b. Mumpf, Aargau Switzerland, March 24, 1820 or Feb. 28, 1821 ; d. Le Cannet, Provence, France, Jan. 3, 1858. Her father, an Alsatian Jew, was an impoverished peddler who wandered about Europe in his trade and at some time before 1831 established his family at Lyon, where the eldest children, Sophie (later known as Sarah) and filisa (later Rachel), sang and begged in the streets and local cafes. Subsequently the family moved to Paris, where the girls sang on the boulevards.
In 1918 Olga Koklova changed her name to Picasso. Their marriage also brought about a change in lifestyle. Picasso ceased to cultivate the Bohemian image of an artistic genius and began to display the pride of someone conscious of his superior position as a master painter. The young family moved house, acquired servants, then a chauffeur, and moved in different social circles, no doubt due to Olga's influence. The chaotic artists' get-togethers gradually changed into receptions. Picasso's image of himself as an artist had changed, and this was probably reflected in the more conventional language he adopted in his art, the way in which he consciously made use of artistic traditions and was almost never provocative. |
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