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Her sympathetic renderings of American ruling class made her one of the most successful portrait painters of her era.
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.
Her portrait of messianic ( self -) sacrifices of these figures make for entertaining speculation, but they have not been taken seriously as history even by her staunchest supporters, though they have been used in novels ( e. g. Katherine Kurtz's Lammas Night, Philip Lindsay's The Devil and King John ).
Her image appears in a number of oils, though he painted her portrait only three times, the most notable appearing in My studio ( 1867 ).
Her first novel, Bonheur d ' occasion ( 1945 ), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal.
Her portrait hangs in the Great Hall at St. John's, and the college boat club is called the Lady Margaret Boat Club ( LMBC ).
Her portrait depicts her at prayer in her richly furnished private closet behind her chamber.
Her father Oscar-Raymond Bonheur was a landscape and portrait painter and an early adherent of Saint-Simonianism, a Christian-socialist sect that promoted the education of women alongside men.
Her ability to endure his long, repetitive sittings helped Whistler develop his portrait skills.
Promotional Warner Bros. faux-Beatles Rutles five-song 33 RPM 12-inch ( PRO-E-723 ) complete with recreated Lads-in-Nehru-suits portrait in the same fashion and pose as the real Beatles ' portrait released on the sleeve of the Capitol 45 rpm release " I Want to Hold Your Hand " b / w " I Saw Her Standing There " ( Capitol 5112 ).
Her portrait was painted by Augustus John, Pavel Tchelitchew and Henry Lamb.
Her portrait hangs in the Oklahoma Capitol.
Her portrait was featured on a stamp in commemoration of International Woman's Day, and in 1977, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, the first level of the highest possible honour for a Canadian civilian.
Chiaroscuro modelling is now taken for granted, but had some opponents ; the English portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard cautioned in his treatise on painting against all but the minimal use we see in his works, reflecting the views of his patron Queen Elizabeth I of England :" seeing that best to show oneself needeth no shadow of place but rather the open light ... Her Majesty .. chose her place to sit for that purpose in the open alley of a goodly garden, where no tree was near, nor any shadow at all ..."
Her portrait was painted twice by the noted American artist Thomas Sully.
In 1885, Renoir painted her portrait again as Girl Braiding Her Hair.
Her memorial portrait finished in 1764 after her death, but begun while she was alive, by her favourite portraitist, François-Hubert Drouais.
Her father commissioned a portrait of Augusta as Artemisia by the painter Johann Heinrich Tischbein.
Her portrait appears on the One Dollar note of the Dominion of Canada with issue date March 17th 1917.
* Rembrandt completes Bathsheba at Her Bath and Woman Bathing in a Stream ( both featuring his mistress Hendrickje ) and paints a portrait of Jan Six.
Her husband had acquired paintings by their fellow Belgian, René Magritte, and in 1936, Magritte painted Suzanne Spaak's portrait.
The hall contains many treasures, including the dagger with which Lord Mayor Walworth killed Wat Tyler in 1381, Pietro Annigoni's first portrait of Her Majesty The Queen, a collection of 17th-and 18th-century silver, an embroidered 15th-century funeral pall, two portraits by George Romney, and river scenes by Samuel Scott.

Her and Queen
* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.
According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.
Her half-aunt, the future Queen Isabella I of Castile, was due to inherit the crown, but Afonso V was keen to interfere with the succession in Castile.
Everything thus turns upon the status and meaning of clause 2 in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, which provides: " The provisions of this Act referring to the Queen shall extend to Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
Her private discussions with Prime Minister Tony Blair were dramatised in Stephen Frears ' film The Queen ( 2006 ).
Her daughter by Zeus was Persephone, Queen of the Underworld.
" The order of the dedications has changed with the relative power of the United States and Britain, and with relative sales ; the 1954 version of the 14th edition is " Dedicated by Permission to the Heads of the Two English-Speaking Peoples, Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.
" Consistent with this tradition, the 2007 version of the current 15th edition was " dedicated by permission to the current President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, and Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II ," while the 2010 version of the current 15th edition is " dedicated by permission to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.
As the Queen is absent from the islands for most of the time, executive authority is exercised " in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf " by the Governor of the Falkland Islands.
The Constitution provides that a " Governor-General appointed by the Queen shall be Her Majesty's representative in the Commonwealth.
On the advice of her New South Wales Premier only, the Queen appoints the Governor to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving At Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.
Her fifth child, Catherine, married King Henry VIII of England and was mother to Queen Mary I of England.
* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.
The Niue Constitution Act vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.
The Niue Constitution Act 1974 ( NZ ) vests executive authority in Her Majesty the Queen in Right of New Zealand and the Governor-General of New Zealand.
* 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
It remains a Commonwealth realm of Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea.
As Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II, styled Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Papua New Guinea and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, or simply Queen of Papua New Guinea, is represented in Papua New Guinea by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

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