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.

A portrait of him painted by Jens Juel was made into a medallion by his friend Johan Tobias Sergel.

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.

The portrait that had developed, fragmentarily but consistently, was the portrait of a man to whom serious thinking is alien enough that the making of a decision inhibits, when it does not forestall, any ability to review the decision in the light of new evidence.

There was, of course, more to the portrait of a lady you carried in your mind's eye than the sine qua non of her virtue.

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

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

In painting, there was only a portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher, a Madonna and Child ( 1526 ), Salvator Mundi ( 1526 ), and two panels showing St. John with St. Peter in background and St. Paul with St. Mark in the background.

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.

From his own captains, Nelson was presented with a sword and a portrait as " proof of their esteem ".

In former times, it was customary to have a portrait in Confucius Temples ; however, during the reign of Hongwu Emperor ( Taizu ) of the Ming dynasty it was decided that the only proper portrait of Confucius should be in the temple in his hometown, Qufu.

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.

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.

The film was intended to be an all encompassing portrait of political movements since May 1968, a summation of the work which he had taken part in for ten years.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Chiang's portrait hung over the gate of the Forbidden City before Mao's portrait was set up in its place.

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

Her portrait of The Reverend Matthew Blackburne Grier was particularly well-received, as was Sita and Sarita, a portrait of her cousin Charles W. Leavitt's wife Sarah ( Allibone ) Leavitt in white, with a small black cat perched on her shoulder, both gazing out mysteriously.