To get him to pose, Mrs. Coolidge would feed him candy, so he enjoyed the portrait sessions as well as she did.

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

Dürer wrote of his desire to draw Luther in his diary in 1520: " And God help me that I may go to Dr. Martin Luther ; thus I intend to make a portrait of him with great care and engrave him on a copper plate to create a lasting memorial of the Christian man who helped me overcome so many difficulties.

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

Avedon is credited with the last portrait of the entertainer to be taken before his departure to Europe and therefore the last photograph of him as a singularly " American icon ".

" Avedon interrupted his production commitments to take Chaplin's portrait the next day, and never saw him again.

Soon figures populated his scenes as well, supposedly in response to a portrait painter who challenged him to take up the genre.

There he painted his own portrait, showing him much younger than he actually was, as well as that of his jailer.

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.

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:

And he called him and said: Lycomedes, what do you mean by this matter of the portrait?

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.

However, Botham subsequently accepted the honour of Honorary Life membership of MCC and his portrait ( depicting him enjoying a cigar ) now hangs prominently in the Long Room Bar at Lord's.

Lord Edgecumbe recommended the Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Grafton to sit for him, and other peers soon followed, including the Duke of Cumberland, third son of George II, in whose portrait, according to Nicholas Penny " bulk is brilliantly converted into power ".

One of her shortest stories, " Ain " is a sympathetic portrait of a scientist whose concern for Earth's ecological suffering leads him to destroy the entire human race.

Jan Matejko made a sketch of Jadwiga's skull, which later helped him paint her portrait ( see above ).

I Brændingen is a camouflaged portrait of Munk's antagonist, the anti-religious Georg Brandes whose atheism also impressed him.

Cézanne ’ s Self portrait with a straw hat seems to him as incredibly pretentious, while Vermeer ’ s human still lives ( also, the Le Nain Brothers and Vuillard ) are the nearest to reflecting this not-self state.

George Burroughs Torrey painted a portrait of him.

alt = 1 / 4 length portrait of Jefferson in 1791, showing him with a shock of red hair and wearing a dark-colored jacket, a yellow vest, and a white shirt.

Henry was reluctant to marry again, especially to a Protestant, but he was persuaded when the court painter Hans Holbein the Younger showed him a flattering portrait of her.

Beside him, however, the portrait has reverted to its original form.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

She painted a large canvas in 1884, Les Derniers Jours d ' Enfance, a portrait of her sister and nephew whose composition and style revealed a debt to James McNeill Whistler and whose subject matter was akin to Mary Cassatt's mother-and-child paintings.

In 1930 the Scottish artist Cowan Dobson painted a full-length portrait of Beatty in white-tie and tails.

For example, in 1788, he painted a portrait of Antoine Lavoisier and his wife.

Towards the end of David's life, he painted a portrait of his old friend Abbé Sieyès.

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.

It was as the last character in Love for Love that Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his best portrait of her.

François painted a portrait of her.

File: Immanuel Kant ( painted portrait ). jpg | Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 )

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

During the Qianlong reign period and the continuing 19th century, European Baroque styles of painting had noticeable influence on Chinese portrait paintings, especially with painted visual effects of lighting and shading.

Rappaport also painted Simon's commissioned portrait at Carnegie Mellon University.

Though the word eikon (" image ") is found in the New Testament ( see below ), it is never in the context of painted icons though it is used to mean portrait.

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.

He had his portrait painted by John Syme, who clothed the naturalist in frontier clothes.

Ludwig's sister Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein | Margaret, painted by Gustav Klimt for her wedding portrait in 1905

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.

Three frescoes in the Sala Regia Palace of the Vatican depicting the events were painted by Giorgio Vasari, and a commemorative medal was issued with Gregory's portrait and on the obverse a chastising angel, sword in hand and the legend (" Massacre of the Huguenots ").

** Portrait miniature, a very small painted portrait ( or other type of painting )

( Later, his portrait would be painted by the proto-expressionist Paula Modersohn-Becker, whom he got to know at Worpswede.

During his lifetime, Scott's portrait was painted by Sir Edwin Landseer and fellow-Scots Sir Henry Raeburn and James Eckford Lauder.

Anguissola traveled to Rome, where she was introduced to Michelangelo who immediately recognized her talent, Milan, where she painted the Duke of Alba, Madrid, which was a turning point in her career serving as a court painter and painting many official portraits for the Spanish court, and Palermo, Pisa, and Genoa, where she was the leading portrait painter.