File: Mosaic2-plw. jpg | Room 49-Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Roman Britain, circa 4th century ( one of the earliest representations of Christ and the only such portrait on a mosaic floor from anywhere in the Roman Empire )

Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.

Influential French critic M. Henri Rochefort commented, " I am compelled to admit, not without some chagrin, that not one of our female artists … is strong enough to compete with the lady who has given us this year the portrait of Dr. Grier.

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

His three profile portraits of Erasmus, two ( nearly identical ) profile portraits and one three-quarters view portrait were all painted in the same year, 1523.

Another criticism of image veneration is found in the non-canonical 2nd-century Acts of John ( generally considered a gnostic work ), in which the Apostle John discovers that one of his followers has had a portrait made of him, and is venerating it:

Though he met Thomas Sully, one of the most famous portrait painters of the time and a valuable ally, Audubon was rebuffed for publication.

Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or " la Gioconda ", the laughing one.

The painting, long claimed to be one of the portraits of Shakespeare, but considered by Barrell to be an overpaint of a portrait of the Earl of Oxford, turned out to represent neither, but rather depicted Hugh Hamersley.

In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called " without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting.

In the early 1970s, French visitors complained that the portrait of Champollion was smaller than one of Young on an adjacent information panel ; English visitors complained that the opposite was true.

Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian ( whimsically ) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than he.

Varney bears a strong resemblance to a portrait in Bannerworth Hall, and the implication is that he is one Marmaduke Bannerworth ( a. k. a. Runnergate Bannerworth in a classic naming confusion ), but that connection is never cleared up.

By " paradigm " he meant, essentially, a logically consistent " portrait " of the world, one that involves no logical contradictions and that is consistent with observations that are made from the point of view of this paradigm.

This distrust extended to the body, including his own ; it is reported by Porphyry that at one point he refused to have his portrait painted, presumably for much the same reasons of dislike.

In Boston, Lincolnshire Banks was Recorder for the town and a portrait painted in 1814 by Thomas Phillips RA was commissioned by the Corporation of Boston, as a tribute to one whose ' judicious and active exertions improved and enriched this borough and neighbourhood '.

This bleak portrait is continued with Thackeray's own role as an omniscient narrator, one of the writers best known for using the technique.

He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".

Agnew was never cleared, but his portrait was restored after arguments that no one had the right to change history.

During one murder, scenes from the killing are interspersed with scenes from a nearby meeting of a socialist club, addressed by William Morris, where a portrait of Karl Marx comes to dominate the scene.

The portrait in the box is one of numerous studio copies of the official portrait by Pompeo Batoni.

His most noted portrait today is the one he made in 1649 of René Descartes.

The Haarlem portrait painter, Johannes Verspronck, one of about 10 competing portraitists in Haarlem at the time, possibly studied for some time with Hals.

Ingres ' pupil Théodore Chassériau ( 1819 – 1856 ) had already achieved success with his nude The Toilette of Esther ( 1841, Louvre ) and equestrian portrait of Ali-Ben-Hamet, Caliph of Constantine and Chief of the Haractas, Followed by his Escort ( 1846 ) before he first visited the East, but in later decades the steamship made travel much easier and increasing numbers of artists traveled to the Middle East and beyond, painting a wide range of Oriental scenes.

Agnes Mongan has written of the portrait drawings: Before his departure in the fall of 1806 from Paris for Rome, the familiar characteristics of his drawing style were well established, the delicate yet firm contour, the definite yet discreet distortions of form, the almost uncanny capacity to seize a likeness in the precise yet lively delineation of features. The preferred materials were also already established: the sharply pointed graphite pencil on a smooth white paper.

In addition to the bronze statue of Perseus and the medallions already referred to, the works of art in existence today are a medallion of Clement VII commemorating the peace between the Christian princes, 1530, with a bust of the pope on the reverse and a figure of Peace setting fire to a heap of arms in front of the temple of Janus, signed with the artist's name ; a signed portrait medal of Francis ; a medal of Cardinal Pietro Bembo ; and the celebrated gold, enamel and ivory salt-cellar ( known as Saliera ) made for Francis I of France at Vienna.

By 1838, Bingham was already beginning to make a name as a portrait artist in St. Louis, the major city of the territory ; his studio was visited by several prominent local citizens and statesmen, including the lawyer James S. Rollins, who was to become a lifelong friend.

As Pliny the Elder recorded in ancient Roman times, Greek artists centuries earlier were already advanced in the arts of portrait painting and still life.

Two works directly preceding Apollinare's portrait, Nu and Landscape, circa 1908 and 1909 respectively, indicate that Metzinger had already departed from Divisionism by 1908.

The already mentioned painting Allegory of Virtue and Vice was intended as an allegorical cover of his portrait ( 1505 ) of the bishop ( now in National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples ), who had survived an assassination attempt.

The English resident in Brussels, John Hutton, had already obtained a portrait, but realising this picture was not as perfect as one made by Master Haunce, " a man very excellent in makyng of phisanymies ," he recalled his messenger.

The only times Schroeder accepted a gift from Lucy was when she gave him a sketch of Beethoven — she was then shocked to find he already had a gigantic wall-size portrait of Beethoven hanging in his room, and when Lucy gave him Elton John glasses.

Margaret Koster's new suggestion, discussed above and below, that the portrait is a memorial one, of a wife already dead for a year or so, would displace these theories.

As mentioned above, some viewers have argued that the woman in the portrait is already pregnant, thus the protruding belly.

There is nothing in the movie's portrait of Pilager / Bush that has not already been absorbed and discounted by the electorate.

His last book was a " portrait " of the artists Gilbert and George, published posthumously in 1999 ( he had already, in 1991, published an informal account of a trip he took with them to Moscow ).

In 1883 Chiossone was asked to make a portrait of Saigō Takamori, who had already been dead for six years ; for this purpose he combined the features of Saigō's younger brother and a cousin of his, and this became the standard portrait and the model for famed bronze statue in Ueno Park.

Unlike many other images from that period, some of the photographs taken in the ghetto are in color, enhancing the already vivid portrait of ghetto life.

Any player already in the game can be re-created with the same face and portrait and stats.

Hence the later addition and erroneous use of the arms here suggests that the identity of the portrait was already unclear only two or three generations after it was painted, a situation by no means unusual amid the frequent early deaths, multiple marriages, and shifting alliances and fortunes of the most powerful families of the Tudor era.

Eline already has plans for her next film: Galina will be a portrait of the Russian opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya, wife of the world famous cellist Rostropovich.