Sentence examples for master's pupils from inspiring English sources

Competing with American millionaires whose pictures founded some of the great US museum collections, such as Henry Clay Frick, Iveagh paid the top price of £27,000 for the Rembrandt – together with a second picture that turned out to be a work by one of the Dutch master's pupils – and a mere £1,050 for the now priceless Vermeer.

The old master's pupils may no longer be world champions such as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Willie Pastrano, Jose Napoles, Carmen Basilio and the host of others – 15 in all – he schooled in his 50 years as boxing's supreme Svengali, but the squad of young hopefuls now under his inimitable tutelage receive the same care and sage advice he gave the fight game's finest.

His biographers, among them Carlo Ridolfi, whose book was published in 1648, speak of an apprenticeship with Titian that was broken off because of the master's resentment of the pupil's proud nature and exceptional accomplishment.

Also, if the masters level is low it is said it increases the percentage of chance of the pupil get the bear, because the pupil will inherit the master's abilities.

Portraying himself as an apt pupil at the master's feet, Hoxha thus establishes continuity between Stalin's USSR and his own rule, thus "proving" that his particular sectarian offshoot of communism is the "true" heir to the Revolution, even if it is entirely without influence on world affairs.

Viola players, with their tiny repertoire, are mighty grateful that Bartok's pupil, Tibor Serly, finished his master's sketched-out viola concerto.

This is not a study of master and pupils or indeed of direct painterly influences but of shared themes and sensibilities.

Linnaeus's star pupil, Daniel Solander, was his master's complete opposite, a man universally adored.

Isaac Albeniz was Liszt's abject admirer and sometimes pupil, taking up his master's style and principles and extending them to self-destructive lengths.

Saturday 10 a.m. 4) MASTER AND PUPIL Perugia's most celebrated painter, Pietro Vannucci, who was also known as Perugino, once had an even more famous pupil: the Renaissance master Raphael.

Caprilli wrote very little, but his pupil, Piero Santini, popularized his master's fundamental principles.