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Lucian Freud - Mature Style
... a thinly painted very precise linear style with muted colours, best known in his self-portrait Man with Thistle (1946, Tate ) and a series of large-eyed ... The portraits in the new style often used an over life-size scale from the start, but were mostly relatively small heads or half-lengths ... Later portraits were often very much larger, and appealed to galleries and collectors ...
... a thinly painted very precise linear style with muted colours, best known in his self-portrait Man with Thistle (1946, Tate ) and a series of large-eyed ... The portraits in the new style often used an over life-size scale from the start, but were mostly relatively small heads or half-lengths ... Later portraits were often very much larger, and appealed to galleries and collectors ...
Peg Woffington - Portraits
... Having a reputation for beauty, Woffington appeared in portraits and paintings by several artists of the day, including Jacobus Lovelace in 1744, Peter van Bleeck in ...
... Having a reputation for beauty, Woffington appeared in portraits and paintings by several artists of the day, including Jacobus Lovelace in 1744, Peter van Bleeck in ...
Cult Of Personality - Examples - Current Examples - Syria
... Portraits of him, often depicting him engaging in heroic activities, were placed in every public space ... Sculptures and portraits depicted him alongside the prophet Mohammad, while, following her death, the government produced portraits of Assad's mother surrounded by a halo ...
... Portraits of him, often depicting him engaging in heroic activities, were placed in every public space ... Sculptures and portraits depicted him alongside the prophet Mohammad, while, following her death, the government produced portraits of Assad's mother surrounded by a halo ...
Ostromir Gospels - The Book
... Three full page evangelist portraits survive, by two different artists, and many pages have decorative elements ... The two artists who produced the evangelist portraits were both heavily influenced by Byzantine models, but the style of the portraits of Saints Mark and Luke seems to derive from Byzantine enamelled ...
... Three full page evangelist portraits survive, by two different artists, and many pages have decorative elements ... The two artists who produced the evangelist portraits were both heavily influenced by Byzantine models, but the style of the portraits of Saints Mark and Luke seems to derive from Byzantine enamelled ...
Grace Slick - Visual Art
... Her agent saw her artwork and asked her to do some portraits of some of her various contemporaries from the rock-and-roll genre to be included in the ... “Alice in Wonderland” themes to the realism of the Rock and Roll portraits and scratchboards of animals to the minimalist ink wash styled nudes to a variety of other subjects and styles ... her various renditions of the white rabbit and the portraits of her colleagues in the music industry ...
... Her agent saw her artwork and asked her to do some portraits of some of her various contemporaries from the rock-and-roll genre to be included in the ... “Alice in Wonderland” themes to the realism of the Rock and Roll portraits and scratchboards of animals to the minimalist ink wash styled nudes to a variety of other subjects and styles ... her various renditions of the white rabbit and the portraits of her colleagues in the music industry ...
David Wilkie (artist) - Wilkie's Latter Years
... His portraits are pictorial and excellent in general distribution, but the faces are frequently wanting in drawing and character ... succeeded in showing his sitters at their best, and his female portraits, in particular, rarely gave satisfaction ... A favourable example of his cabinet-sized portraits is that of Sir Robert Listen his likeness of W ...
... His portraits are pictorial and excellent in general distribution, but the faces are frequently wanting in drawing and character ... succeeded in showing his sitters at their best, and his female portraits, in particular, rarely gave satisfaction ... A favourable example of his cabinet-sized portraits is that of Sir Robert Listen his likeness of W ...
Jan Steen - Works
... He often used members of his family as models, and painted quite a few self-portraits in which he showed no tendency of vanity ... shy from other themes he painted historical, mythological and religious scenes, portraits, still lifes and natural scenes ... His portraits of children are famous ...
... He often used members of his family as models, and painted quite a few self-portraits in which he showed no tendency of vanity ... shy from other themes he painted historical, mythological and religious scenes, portraits, still lifes and natural scenes ... His portraits of children are famous ...
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl Of Snowdon - Early Life and Career
... royal studies, among which were the official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Duke of Edinburgh for their 1957 tour of Canada ... city life and the mentally ill, he is best known for his portraits of world notables (the National Portrait Gallery has more than 100 Snowdon portraits in its collection), many of them published in ... In 2001, Snowdon was given a retrospective exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Photographs by Snowdon A Retrospective, which later travelled to the Yale Center for British Art ...
... royal studies, among which were the official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Duke of Edinburgh for their 1957 tour of Canada ... city life and the mentally ill, he is best known for his portraits of world notables (the National Portrait Gallery has more than 100 Snowdon portraits in its collection), many of them published in ... In 2001, Snowdon was given a retrospective exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Photographs by Snowdon A Retrospective, which later travelled to the Yale Center for British Art ...
Pompeo Batoni - Biography
... He was greatly in demand for portraits, particularly by the British traveling through Rome, who took pleasure in commissioning standing portraits set in the milieu of ... There are records of over 200 portraits by Batoni of visiting British patrons ... Such "Grand Tour" portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the United Kingdom, where Sir Joshua ...
... He was greatly in demand for portraits, particularly by the British traveling through Rome, who took pleasure in commissioning standing portraits set in the milieu of ... There are records of over 200 portraits by Batoni of visiting British patrons ... Such "Grand Tour" portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the United Kingdom, where Sir Joshua ...
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