Eloise, At the Plaza
Hilary Knight made a painting of Eloise (which he says is "not as polished as the drawings") to hang in the Plaza Hotel lobby in 1964--at left is a watercolor sketch Knight did before committing the image to oil. Knight originally painted Eloise in 1957, but the canvas disappeared from the hotel lobby in 1960 and never returned, despite author Kay Thompson having offered a hefty reward for it.
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