sentences:  The Princess had seen the lion cub at Ringling Brothers circus and asked to buy him, but the circus owners refused.However, they agreed to sell him to American Civil War hero Daniel E. Sickles - whose portrait the Princess had recently painted.He gave the cub immediately to the grateful Princess as a gift..
  
  She became known as a 5th Avenue portraitist, partly as a result of a well-publicized 1911 visit to her cousin Abbott Lawrence Lowell, then President of Harvard, during which she travelled to Boston by private railway car and insisted on dining off her own solid-gold dinnerware.