Sentence examples for commission to execute from inspiring English sources

He had arrived with a commission to execute a series of etchings for the Fine Art Society.

He was rejected in various competitions for monuments to be erected in London and Paris, but finally he received a commission to execute a statue for City Hall in Paris.

Bronzino, who was court painter to Cosimo de Medici, was often commissioned to execute religious paintings.

Jackson used military commissions to execute two British traders who were suspected of helping the Seminoles.

He was commissioned to execute posters for events like the Kentucky Derby.

That same year he was commissioned to execute a tomb in St. Peter's to Pope Clement XIII.

In 1907, commissioned to execute a rich landowner's funeral monument in the Buzau Cemetery in Romania, Brancusi sculpted a statue of a young girl kneeling, entitled The Prayer, which represented the first stage of his evolution toward simplified forms.

The "Ecstasy of St. Francis," perhaps his finest religious work, dates from about 1732, and some three years later he was commissioned to execute an "Assumption" for the elector of Cologne.

In 1932 he won a scholarship to the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and two years later was commissioned to execute bas-reliefs for a building in his hometown.

After taking up a teaching post at the University of Chicago, where she remained until 1977, Ms. Duckworth was commissioned to execute a suite of murals for the entry atrium of the university's new Geophysical Sciences Building.

Domingo French was commissioned to execute the verdict.