* In The Resident Patient, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, Holmes ' companion Dr. Watson is mentioned as being an avid admirer of Henry Ward Beecher, keeping a portrait of him ( beside a portrait of General Gordon ) and feeling strongly indignant about the way that Beecher was received during his visit to Britain at the time of the Civil War by " the more turbulent of our people ".

Among the many works of art produced by Rex Whistler during his time in the forces was a fine pencil portrait of Sergeant Sherlock.

The violence of the villain's end, including the grisly grinding of the avenger's heel into Milverton's bespectacled face, is faithfully adapted, but Holmes and Watson do not at the end gaze upon Milverton's killer's portrait, as the murderess is identified.

* Taylor Holmes portrait section NY Public Library Billy rose Collection

The diary provides a portrait of various members of the Holmes family and their actions during the war period.

That was Rob Roy, who posed with Mrs. Coolidge for the portrait by Howard Chandler Christy.

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

* Meier C. 1998, Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age ( translated by R. and R. Kimber ).

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There is a portrait of him by Francis Wheatley in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

File: Sir Theodore Mayerne drawing by Peter Paul Rubens. jpg | Rubens-Sir Théodore de Mayerne, a portrait drawing ( c. 1630 )

Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 ( Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna )

Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy ( English painter ) | Thomas Hardy, 1792

In 2006, the China Confucius Foundation commissioned a standard portrait of Confucius based on the Tang dynasty portrait by Wu Daozi.

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

File: Charlotte Brontë. jpg | A postum idealized portrait by Duyckinick, 1873, based on a drawing by George Richmond

" Instead, she attended costume and portrait painting classes for three years taught by the ailing director Christian Schussele.

Another highly regarded portrait from that period is New England Woman ( 1895 ), a nearly all-white oil painting which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

A portrait as diversified as the one already pointed out for the coronal features is emphasized by the analysis of the dynamics of the main structures of the corona, which evolve in times very different among them.

Pencil portrait by Ingres

Edward Herbert, portrait by Isaac Oliver ( 1560 – 1617 )

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Saint Dominic ( 1170-1221 ), portrait by El Greco, 1586-90.

Catherine of Siena ( 1347-1380 ), portrait by Andrea Vanni, late 14th or early 15th century.

Engraving | Engraved portrait of Sidney by Simon de Passe, 1617

At this time a likeness of her as a girl in a group portrait of Lady Sidney and her children was captured in painting by Marcus Gheeraerts the younger in 1596, and is now on display at Penshurst.

We went into Mrs. Monmouth's library, which had low bookshelves all along the walls, and above them a Modigliani portrait, a Jackson Pollock twelve feet long, and a gorgeous Miro with a yellow background, that looked like an inscription from a Martian tomb.

Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).

* Letters-a few letters in the original Latin and a portrait of him from a manuscript he copied.

Anne from Branwell's group portrait ( below )

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

The book is a collection of historic and current portrait photographs of figures from the computer industry.

He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings, including a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death ( displayed at the top of the article ).

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 )

A possible surviving portrait of Claudius from this period may support this.

The phallic shape of the piece scandalized the Salon, and despite Brâncuși's explanation that it was an anonymous portrait, removed it from the exhibition.

In the mid-1880s, she was receiving commissions from notable Philadelphians and earning $ 500 per portrait, comparable to what Eakins commanded.

Inner picture of a cigar box from the early 1900s with a portrait of Brewster.

His portrait of Thompson elicited some protests from readers, and other left-wing journals came to the defense of Thompson.

The film is an intimate portrait of three young drag queens from her home state who compete in female impersonator beauty pageants.

Erasmus used the Holbein portraits as gifts for his friends in England, such as William Warham, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( as he writes in a letter to Warham regarding the gift portrait, Erasmus quips that " he might have something of Erasmus should God call him from this place.

Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.

Engraved portrait of Henry Purcell by R. White after Closterman, from Orpheus Britannicus

As we may judge from such items, the first depictions of Jesus were generic rather than portrait images, generally representing him as a beardless young man.

Detail view of the portrait of Adams in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | U. S. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C., painted by George Caleb Bingham ; this copy c. 1850 from an original of 1844

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.

While he was in prison, Pope Pius IX sent Davis a portrait inscribed with the Latin words, " Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus ", which comes from Matthew 11: 28 and translates as, " Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.

Jahangir himself is far from modest in his autobiography when he states his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting.