Farnol is depicted at half-length sitting in a relaxed posture on a wicker chair. He signs the portrait for future Congressman Seymour Halpern then a young autograph collector.
Jeffery Farnol [1878-1952] was a British author known for writing more than 40 romance novels, some swashbucklers and others set in the Georgian or English Regency period. With Georgette Heyer, he largely initiated the Regency romantic genre. Two of his early novels, "The Amateur Gentleman" and "The Broad Highway" have been issued in versions edited by romance novelist Barbara Cartland. "The Amateur Gentleman" was adapted for British cinema in 1920 and 1936 and for American cinema in 1926.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Very good .
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