his wife, Marion, is a portrait painter.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

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.

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.

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

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

In 1834, he received his first instruction in art in classes of John Rubens Smith, a portrait painter in Philadelphia.

* 1886 – Antonio Alice, Argentine portrait painter ( d. 1943 )

In 1937, Fellini opened Febo, a portrait shop in Rimini with the painter Demos Bonini.

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

Avercamp was born in Amsterdam, where he studied with the Danish-born portrait painter Pieter Isaacks ( 1569 – 1625 ), and perhaps also with David Vinckboons.

As a portrait painter he is well known.

Having shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who had also been born in Devon.

Because of his popularity as a portrait painter, Reynolds enjoyed constant interaction with the wealthy and famous men and women of the day, and it was he who first brought together the famous figures of " The " Club.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

His portrait of Picasso in 1912 is a significant early Cubist painting done by a painter other than Picasso or Braque.

Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel.

After his first painting, a portrait, was accepted at the Salon of 1840, Millet returned to Cherbourg to begin a career as a portrait painter.

Arcimboldo will notably influence German painter Michael Mathias Prechtl ( 1929-2003 ) in his portrait of Franz Kafka

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.

Anguissola was fourteen when her father sent her and her sister Elena to study with Bernardino Campi, a respected portrait and religious painter of the Lombard school.

She was the leading portrait painter in Genoa until she moved to Palermo in her last years.

Thomas Gainsborough ( christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788 ) was an English portrait and landscape painter.

Many artists in the 17th century in Holland opted to specialise, and Hals also appears to have been a pure portrait specialist.

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

* Antoon Erftemeijer ; 2004: Frans Hals in het Frans Hals Museum, Amsterdam / Gent ( in Dutch, English and French ), in which various chapters are devoted to Hals ' life, his predecessors, portrait painting in the Golden Age, Hals ' painting technique and other subjects.

Frans Hals, Rembrandt and other artists had adopted a variety of poses to liven up the group portrait, for example the famous Night Watch.

According to the RKD, he became a pupil in 1627 of the portrait painter Frans Hals, at that time the master of Adriaen Brouwer and Jan Miense Molenaer.

Group portrait of the Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse, by Frans Hals, 1664

Group portrait of the Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse, by Frans Hals, 1664

One of these executors also had his portrait painted by Frans Hals.

Other masterworks of northern European and French art include Frans Hals ’ portrait Dorothea Berck ( 1644 ), Rembrandt van Rijn ’ s painting of his son Titus ( 1660 ), Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin ’ s portrayal of a lovely maiden tossing a ball in The Game of Knucklebones ( c. 1734 ), and French court portraitist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ’ s exotic Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin ( c. 1797 ).

The Laughing Cavalier ( 1624 ) is a famous portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals in the Wallace Collection in London, which has been described as " one of the most brilliant of all Baroque portraits ".

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.

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.

He had various coins with her portrait struck in her honor.

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.

Under his reign his wife Louisa was thought to have had the real power, which is why she is placed at the center of the group portrait.

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.

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:

The Saint was recognized because the young man had often seen his portrait.

Adams sat for the earliest confirmed photograph still in existence of a U. S. president in 1843, although other sources contend that William Henry Harrison had posed even earlier for his portrait, in 1841.

( Audubon's account reveals that he learned oil painting in December 1822 from Jacob Stein, an itinerant portrait artist, and after they had enjoyed all the portrait patronage to be expected in Natchez, Mississippi during January – March 1823, they resolved to travel together as perambulating portrait-artists.

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

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

The U. S. mint prepared special silver medals with a portrait of Jefferson and had a message of friendship and peace, called Indian Peace Medals or peace medals.

Many years ago, Kodak had to overcome initial rejection of its portrait film in Japan because of these adjustments.

Baum had shrewdly transferred most of his property, except for his clothing, his library ( mostly of children's books, such as the fairy tales of Andrew Lang, whose portrait he kept in his study ), and his typewriter ( all of which he successfully argued were essential to his occupation ), into Maud's name, as she handled the finances, anyway, and thus lost much less than he could have.

Buddy Rogers often gave guests tours of Pickfair, including views of a genuine western bar Pickford had bought for Douglas Fairbanks, and a portrait of Pickford in the drawing room.

Tailleferre also wrote popular songs to texts by Claude Marci, the wife of Henri Jeanson, whose portrait had been painted by Magritte in the 1930s.

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.

The last straw was when Don Salvador read in a Barcelona newspaper that his son had recently exhibited in Paris a drawing of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, with a provocative inscription: " Sometimes, I spit for fun on my mother's portrait ".

Before becoming a Hollywood filmmaker, he had been an amateur boxer, reporter, short-story writer, portrait artist in Paris, a cavalry rider in Mexico, and a documentary filmmaker during World War II.