Brown's most important painting was Work ( 1852 – 1865 ), commissioned by Thomas Plint and which he showed at a special exhibition.

The painting was commissioned by Thomas Gold Appleton, an American art collector based in Boston, Massachusetts.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

Several of Michelangelo's greatest works ( including the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ) were commissioned by Julius.

No contemporary documents record the patron of the fresco, but recently references to ownership of a tomb at the foot of the fresco have been found in the records of the Berti family of the Santa Maria Novella Quarter of Florence ; this working-class family expressed a long-standing devotion to the Trinity, and may well have commissioned Masaccio's painting.

The fourth Mughal emperor Jahangir ( r. 1605-24 ), commissioned a painting of the zebra, which was completed by Ustad Mansur.

Portrait painting of Emperor Yang of Sui, commissioned in 643 by Emperor Taizong of Tang | Taizong, painted by Yan Liben ( 600 – 673 )

On yet another episode, Conan gave Hanks a painting he had commissioned reflecting two of his interests: Astronauts landing on the beach at Normandy.

Hird's winning goal was the focus of a popular installment of the Toyota Memorable Moments advertising campaign, and the hug is captured in Jamie Cooper's painting the Game That Made Australia, commissioned by the AFL in 2008 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the sport.

Several other artists and their teams of assistants were already at work on different rooms, many painting over recently completed paintings commissioned by Julius's loathed predecessor, Alexander VI, whose contributions, and arms, Julius was determined to efface from the palace.

Dynastic group portrait of Louis XIV ( seated ) with his son Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1661 – 1711 ) | le Grand Dauphin ( to the left ), his grandson Louis of France, Duke of Burgundy | Louis, Duke of Burgundy ( to the right ), his great-grandson the duc d ' Anjou, later Louis XV, and Madame de Ventadour, his governess, who commissioned this painting some years later ; busts of Henry IV of France | Henry IV and Louis XIII of France | Louis XIII in the background.

A posthumous painting commissioned around 1670 by Philippe I, Duke of Orléans | Philippe de France. It shows the French Bourbon Family around that time.

In the late sixteenth-century, Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings, including some probably commissioned and collected by Spaniards active in Bosch's hometown ; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns The Adoration of the Magi, The Garden of Earthly Delights, the tabletop painting of The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, the The Haywain Triptych and The Stone Operation.

In 1821 he finished a painting commissioned by a childhood friend, Monsieur de Pastoret, the Entry of Charles V into Paris ; de Pastoret also ordered a portrait of himself and a religious work ( Virgin with the Blue Veil ).

On this second visit to England, he was lauded by the English nobility and critics alike, and invited to exhibit at leading art societies ; moreover, King George III is said to have commissioned the out-sized painting River Landscape with the Finding of Moses ( 1768 ).

This series of nudes was commissioned by Modigliani's dealer and friend Leopold Zborowski, who lent the artist use of his apartment, supplied models and painting materials, and paid him between fifteen and twenty francs each day for his work.

Morris's painting installation on the ceiling of the Lever House in Manhattan, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, was also titled " Robert Towne ".

The painting is thought to have been commissioned for their new home and to celebrate the birth of their second son, Andrea.

As a gesture of appreciation for John Fisher ( Anglican bishop ) | John Fisher, the Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned this painting, Constable included the Bishop and his wife in the canvas ( bottom left ). The cathedral is the subject of famous paintings by John Constable.

The painting was commissioned by Sforza to be the centerpiece of the mausoleum.

" A painting of this supposed incident was commissioned in 1778 by the then Duke of Rutland, but was destroyed in a fire in 1816.

From a painting by John Opie commissioned by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery for printing and display.

King Neptune is shown symbolically passing his trident to Britannia in the 1847 fresco " Neptune Resigning to Britannia the Empire of the Sea " by William Dyce, a painting Victoria commissioned for her Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

His last monumental work, Midvinterblot ( Midwinter Sacrifice ), a oil painting completed in 1915, had been commissioned for a wall in the National Museum in Stockholm ( which already had several of his frescos adorning its walls ).

This interpretation has not been adopted by Renaissance art historians in general, and it remains problematic, since it depends on the painting being commissioned by the Medici, yet the work is not documented in Medici hands before 1550.

The artist's last known oil painting was dated 1776 ; his final Salon participation was in 1779, and featured several pastel studies.

Using his favorite model in his last painting of her, a fellow painter, Victorine Meurent, also the model for Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass, sits before an iron fence holding a sleeping puppy and an open book in her lap.

He completed painting his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère ( Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère ), in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that year.

Buon fresco is painting into wet plaster, which makes a painting last a long time.

Fresco secco is painting onto dry plaster, which does not last as long.

However, in the last couple of years the British graffiti scene has been struck by self-titled ' art terrorist ' Banksy, who has revolutionized the style of UK graffiti ( bringing to the forefront stencils to aid the speed of painting ) as well as the content ; making his work largely satirical of the sociological state of cities, or the political climate of war, often using monkeys and rats as motifs.

Hector's last visit with his wife, Andromache, and infant son Astyanax, startled by his father's helmet ( Apulian vase painting | Apulian red-figure vase, 370 – 360 BC )

The painting represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death.

" On the other hand Clement Greenberg called Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ) " the first real Modernist ", though he also wrote, " What can be safely called Modernism emerged in the middle of the last century — and rather locally, in France, with Baudelaire in literature and Manet in painting, and perhaps with Flaubert, too, in prose fiction.

But at last the low life became an annoyance to him, and, filled with remorse, he returned to painting.

The painting was last sold at Gallerie Bernheim-Jeune in 1926 to Herbert May, husband of Sadie May, a benefactor of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

In the last year of his life he collaborated with John Hoppner in painting a full length portrait of Charlotte, Countess Talbot.

He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.

His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 321 cover paintings.

Eastwood plays Jonathan Hemlock in a role originally intended for Paul Newman, an assassin turned college art professor who decides to return to his former profession for one last " sanction " in return for a rare Pissarro painting.

Rousseau's last painting was The Dream.

His fellow students recall that the last was where he displayed his greatest talent, and apparently this was not an entirely academic pursuit for the teenager: when not painting nudes, he was occupied with seducing the household maid.

In the last years of his life Miró wrote his most radical and least known ideas, exploring the possibilities of gas sculpture and four-dimensional painting.

In the last years of his life, he concentrated on painting rather than movies.

Many of the rescued items have only recently been put on display There is a painting of Radama II standing next to the state crown and another of Queen Ranavalona III-the last monarch-wearing it.

In the church itself there are several paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries ( amongst others Dirk Bouts famous painting of the last supper ) and the grave of Duke Henry I of Brabant.

His last project ( 1896 ) was to be a painting entitled The Last Trek.

In the first character he was below mediocrity ; in the second, he was a restorer of the science ; in the last, an original, and the inventor of an art that realizes painting and improves nature.