Ev’ryone knew Dapper Dan
Knew him for a ladies man
Never cared to settle down
Had a girl in ev’ry town
1921, lyrics by Lew Brown, music by Albert Von Tilzer
If you are in need of an elegant instant ancestor, you cannot go wrong with this skillful and striking pencil sketch of a well-dressed gent. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "dapper" can mean, a neat and trim in appearance, very spruce and stylish, or alert and lively in movement and manners, and this meticulously dressed man meets all three criteria.
The drawing is by Graziella Jacoby, an artist renown for her colored pencil drawings, especially her portraits, which captured the character of her subjects. Born in Illinois on 1885, Jacoby studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as with famed art nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha in Czechoslovakia and American realist painter George Wesley Bellows in New York City. She moved to Pasadena, California in 1928, where she was active in local art circles. Jacoby passed away on July 20, 1980.
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