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.

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.

During this low point of his career, Ingres was forced to depend for his livelihood on the execution, in pencil, of small portrait drawings of the many tourists, in particular the English, passing through postwar Rome.

A portrait of Douglas, titled " The Great and the Beautiful ," which encapsulated his film career, art collection, philanthropy and rehabilitation from the helicopter crash and the stroke, appeared in Palm Springs Life magazine in 1999.

Another term which appears in commentaries on Resnais throughout his career is " surrealism ", from his documentary portrait of a library in Toute la mémoire du monde, through the dreamlike innovations of Marienbad, to the latterday playfulness of Les Herbes folles.

The difficulties which beset him as an artist seeking to paint the portrait and figure realistically were paralleled and even amplified in his career as an educator, where behavioral and sexual scandals truncated his success and damaged his reputation.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, in his review for the Chicago Reader, praised Holly Hunter's performance as " something of a revelation: her short, feisty, socially gauche, aggressive-compulsive character may be the most intricately layered portrait of a career woman that contemporary Hollywood has given us ".

Upon his return to the United States, Baer settled into the Montclair, New Jersey art colony to continue his career as a genre, portrait painter and teacher.

In fact the resemblance was to such and extent-compare Campin's Portrait of a Womans similarity to Rogier's Berlin portrait, that Campin's works were for a period attributed to Rogier's early career.

Ben Brantley in his New York Times review wrote, " Working against type and expectation under the direction of Sam Mendes, Ms. Peters has created the most complex and compelling portrait of her long career, and she has done this in ways that deviate radically from the Merman blueprint.

In his late career he often followed a portrait by producing an etching of the subject in a different pose, drawing directly onto the plate, with the sitter in his view.

" After two years of study in Italy he returned to Edinburgh in 1787, and began a successful career as a portrait painter.

Throughout the 1930s he continued an increasingly-successful career as a portrait artist, with notable sitters including the film stars Merle Oberon and Marlene Dietrich, as well as the Duchess of Windsor, whose husband commissioned her portrait.

The film, which also featured interviews with many of Ochs ' associates, including Rubin and Hoffman, was a dual portrait of the singer-songwriter's career and the protest movements of the 1960s.

Frith started his career as a portrait painter and first exhibited at the British Institution in 1838.

The most successful painting of Peale's 50-year career, it inspired John Marshall to have his portrait done by Peale in the same fashion.

For Sargent, the scandal resulting from the painting's controversial reception at the Paris Salon of 1884 amounted to the failure of a strategy to build a long-term career as a portrait painter in France.

Hopkinson then began a lucrative career as a portrait painter in Cambridge winning awards like the Logan Medal of the arts ( 1926 ), and soon his first commission being a baby portrait in 1896 of poet E. E. Cummings, a work that is in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

His son, William Mulready Junior ( 1805 – 1878 ), lived in London and maintained a career of a portrait painter and picture restorer.

Through his career Augustus Saint-Gaudens ' made a specialty of intimate private portrait panels in sensitive, very low relief, which owed something to the Florentine Renaissance.

Simon began his painting career as a portrait painter.

At the dedication of his judicial portrait, Justice Swainson said he left the final judgement of his public career to history.

He is known to have been married to Cornelia Bosman in 1658, a date coinciding so directly with the end of his productivity as a painter that it has been accepted that his marriage played some sort of role in the end of his artistic career.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Lynch had become interested in painting and drawing from an early age, becoming intrigued by the idea of pursuing it as a career path when living in Virginia, where his friend's father was a professional painter.

They had three children, Blanca ( who died in 1886 ), Laura ( a painter ), and Alfonso ( who played for Real Madrid in the early 1900s before embarking on a career as a diplomat ).

In reality, Severn launched his own successful artistic career soon after Keats died, becoming a versatile painter in Rome during the 1820s and 1830s.

Jacopo Amigoni ( 1682 – 1752 ), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.

His early career in the 1930s was as a painter in London, although he lived on the Channel Island of Sark for a time.

During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away, and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun.

He left England on August 21, 1815, to return to the United States and begin his full-time career as a painter.

In 2007 he told a reporter that he was giving up music for good to focus on his career as a painter.

He settled in a Bohemian section in New York, taught himself English by watching television, and continued his career as an artist, painter and photographer.

Zuccari returned to Rome in 1548, and began his career as a fresco painter, by executing a series of scenes in monochrome from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus on the front of the palace of a wealthy Roman named Jacopo Mattei.

His documented career as a painter began in 1550, when he moved to Rome to work under Taddeo, his elder brother.

Early in his career, he wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classic art.

The album's sleeve features Van Vliet's 1976 painting Green Tom, one of the many works that would mark out his longed-for career as a painter of note.

Soon after, Van Vliet retired from music and began a new career as a painter.

He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and those of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm, becoming a close friend of Martin Luther.

Early in his career he was active in several branches of his profession: sometimes a decorative painter, more frequently producing portraits and altarpieces, woodcuts, engravings, and designing the coins for the electorate.

This novel offers a wide, cheerful panorama of English life and follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who vacillates between a political career and his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success.

He employed Barthélemy d ' Eyck as both painter and varlet de chambre for most of his career.

Kent's career began as a sign and coach painter who was encouraged to study art, design and architecture by his employer.

Giorgione (; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco ; c. 1477 / 8 – 1510 ) was a Venetian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice, whose career was cut off by his death at a little over thirty.