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Infant prodigy

... Infant prodigy Here for the last 19 years. 69-year-old Chevalier Fortunino Matania. one-time infant prodigy. has painted those delicate, exact and beautiful historical studies which have graced the pages magazines and the walls of the Academy He grew ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1950
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ANOINTING OF KING GEORGE VI. AT HIS CORONATION

... CHAIR HAS BEEN USED AT EVERY CORONATION SINCE THAT OF EDWARD 11., SAVE THAT OF MARY I. AND MARY 11. From the painting by Fortunino Matania. R. 1., reproduced from The Illustrated London News May 15, 1937. ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1951
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 13 April 1951
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 992 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

From the FIRST WORLD WAR to the DAYS of BETROTHAL and MARRIAGE

... Westminster Abbey on April 26, 1923. As ever, The Sphere was an inde fatigable recorder of great events. Our special artist, Fortunino Matania, sketched in detail the brilliant scene within Westminster Abbey as the Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced the Benediction ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4193 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

IN GOOD QUEEN MARY'S DAYS: A Six-page Section Showing Aspects of Her Public Life as Recorded by Special Sphere ..

... drawings made specially for the occasions by SPHERE artists, most notable among them being Fortunino Matania and Eduardo Matania. On behalf of The Sphere Fortunino Matania travelled far and wide recording his vivid impressions. The greater part of his finest ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 587 | Page: 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

The PAGEANTRY of CORONATION YEAR, 1911: As Recorded in The Sphere!

... i the occasion of the third progress of the King and Queen through London after the Coronation, and in this picture Fortunino Matania recorded the scene it I High Table as Grace was said by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Randall Davidson), who is seen ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 417 | Page: 41 | Tags: Photographs 

THE LIFE-STORY OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY FROM 1867 TO 1953: A PICTORIAL RECORD FROM THE DAYS OF HER INFANCY TO ..

... DAYS and the GREAT DELHI DURBAI The Lite-Story of Queen Mary THE CROWNING OF QUEEN MARY BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Fortunino Matania, one of The Sphere artists in Westminster Abbey, recorded this scene as the Primate set the Crown upon Her Majesty's ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6604 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THANKSGIVING BENEATH THE GREAT DOME OF ST. PAUS'S

... Mary's Days MAY 1935-- THE CLIMAX OF THE SILVER JUBILEE In this drawing, so photographically perfect in all its detail, Fortunino Matania, the noted artist whose work was for so long a feature of The Sphere, reconstructed the scene of splendour in St. Paul's ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 144 | Page: 44 | Tags: Illustrations 

EDWARD VII TO GEORGE VI--PREVIOUS CORONATIONS RECORDED

... officers of State, and bearers of the Regalia are seen awaiting the coming of the King and Queen in this drawing made by Fortunino Matania. On the extreme left of the drawing is Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 362 | Page: 68 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CORONATIONS OF EDWARD VII, GEORGE V AND GEORGE VI: As Recorded in the Pages of The Sphere

... leading Sphere artists were Percy F. S. Spence, Maurice Greiffenhagen and Sidney Paget. Later in the century the work of Fortunino Matania began to loom large in The Sphere, and he recorded the Coronations of both King George V and his son King George VI, ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 424 | Page: 61 | Tags: Illustrations 

EDWARD VII TO GEORGE VI--PREVIOUS CORONATIONS RECORDED

... Primate lifted the Queen' crown the Koh-i-noor that is set in it flashed and sparkled so that all m ht see. Drawn by Fortunino Matania, one of The Sphere artists in the Abbey THE NEWLY-CROWNED KING GEORGE V PREPARES TO DESCEND THE STEPS OF THE THEATRE ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1953
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 65 | Tags: Illustrations