A THEOLOGIAN’S TALE: ELIZABETH

Lady painter of portraits, nudes and busts; draughtswoman.

Countess Emma de Liedekerke, the future wife of Guy de Beauffort, was the only pupil of Fernand Khnopff. She was born in 1889 and entered the studio of Fernand Khnopf, who died in 1921, at a very early age.
Her son, the Marquis de Beauffort, left a widow who died on June 12, 2018.

The text below the drawing is a quotation from the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Portland, Maine, February 27, 1807 – Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 24, 1882) was an American educator and poet whose work included “Paul Revere’s Ride”, “The Song of Hiawatha” and “Evangeline.” Longfellow was one of the five Fireside Poets. He studied at Harvard and became a librarian. After a journey through Europe (1826-1829) he became the first professor in modern languages at Harvard. In 1831 he married Mary Storer Potter, who died in Rotterdam in 1835, on a new journey through Europe. He then married Frances Appleton.

In 1854 he left Harvard to dedicate himself completely to writing. He received an honorary doctorate in 1859. In 1861 he lost his wife by a fire. He dedicated the much-read sonnet “The Cross of Snow” to that event. In his time, his poetry was extremely popular. Longfellow was also an excellent technician and his poetry is accessible because the poems often deal with familiar themes and are contained in simple but flowery language. Longfellow also made many translations and has therefore made much European poetry accessible to Americans. In addition, various folklore themes and figures from American folklore have made this folklore known in Europe.
In 1884 a bust of him was placed in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey in London.
He was the first American poet to receive this honor.