Dutch Girl in White, 1907, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50. 8 cm), Paintings, Robert Henri (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1865?1929 New York), Henri championed truth and vitality in life and art. He echoed in his paintings the dark palette and gestural brushwork of the old masters Diego Velazquez and Frans Hals and the more recent Realists ?douard Manet and Edgar Degas