One White House dog was immortalized in a painting.

He himself was once convicted of painting erotica and jailed for 24 days -- the first three of which he spent desperately trying to make paintings on the wall with his own spittle.

Hanging over the bar was an oil painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

The result was like that of a beautiful painting with some of the highlights touched up almost to the point of garishness.

It was the kind of work I was doing, the quality of the ambition it awoke in me, that kept me from painting.

However, he was never able to make a living with his art, and, as he began to perceive most of the proletarian movement as " putting unfulfilled political ideals directly onto the canvas ", he lost his enthusiasm for painting.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The term was also used to describe sculpture and painting that demonstrated a greater degree of naturalism.

In the United States, the leading Romantic movement was the Hudson River School of dramatic landscape painting.

No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture.

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

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.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

Altdorfer was the pioneer painter of pure landscape, making them the subject of the painting, as well as compositions dominated by their landscape.

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

However in the United Kingdom, pioneering research into painting materials and conservation, ceramics, and stone conservation was conducted by Arthur Pillans Laurie, academic chemist and Principal of Heriot-Watt University from 1900.

Other known maps of the ancient world include the Minoan " House of the Admiral " wall painting from c. 1600 BCE, showing a seaside community in an oblique perspective and an engraved map of the holy Babylonian city of Nippur, from the Kassite period ( 14th12th centuries BCE ).

He took oil painting lessons from Sully and met Charles Bonaparte, who admired his work and recommended he go to Europe to have his bird drawings engraved.

The current bill was introduced in 1976 and retains Jefferson's portrait on the obverse but replaced Monticello on the reverse with an engraved modified reproduction of John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence instead.

One version, now in Munich, was engraved and reproduced as a painting as far away as colonial Peru.

Sometimes the silhouette of the animal was incised in the rock first, and in some caves all or many of the images are only engraved in this fashion, taking them somewhat out of a strict definition of " cave painting ".

Woollett had already successfully engraved Claude Lorrain's 1663 painting The Father of Psyche Sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo for Boydell in 1760.

Most notable among these was the Death of General Wolfe a 1770 painting by Benjamin West, engraved by Woollett for Boydell in 1776.

An engraved version of the painting, along with a depiction of Delacroix himself, was featured on the 100-franc note in the early 1990s.

An engraved portrait of George Gordon from a painting by Anthony van Dyck.

The reverse features an engraved modified reproduction of the painting The Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull.

David Teniers in Het Gulden Kabinet, engraved by Peter van Liesebetten after a painting by Peter de Mol, 1661.

Alexander and Hephaistion visit the family of Darius in their tent after the battle of Issus, engraved by Gerard Edelinck from a painting by Charles le Brun

His 1000th engraved stamp, the painting " Great Deeds by Swedish Kings " by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl ( 2000 ), is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest engraved stamp ever issued.

A portrait of him was engraved by John Jones from a painting by George Romney.

", which means that son Theo made the sketch from the painting, and father Jacob Matham engraved it.

Based on a painting | painted portrait by Charles Le Brun, Robert Nanteuil's engraving of Pompone de Bellièvre has been described as " foremost among his masterpieces, and a chief masterpiece of art, being, in the judgment of more than one connoisseur, the most beautiful engraved portrait that exists.

There he devoted himself to painting the scenery around the city and executed a series of paintings of Norfolk rivers which were eventually engraved and published in 1834.

At the age of fourteen he began working as an architectural and topographical draughtsman ; afterwards he contributed designs to be engraved in the annuals then so popular ; thence he progressed into water-colour painting, becoming an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1822, and a full member in 1833.

The son studied with him and in the National Academy of Design ; engraved on steel vignettes for bank-notes and some illustrations, notably F. O. C. Darley's pictures for James Fenimore Cooper's novels ; was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1865 — the year after he first began painting and an academician in 1876 ; and was a founder ( 1866 ) of the American Water Color Society, of which he was treasurer in 1866-1873 and president in 1873-1878, and of the New York Etching Club.

File: Colbert, évêque de Montpellier. jpg | Charles-Joachim Colbert de Croissy, bishop of Montpellier ( engraved by François Chéreau after a painting by Jean Raoux )

In 1849 he exhibited a painting ' The First-born ' which was subsequently engraved for the Art Union of London.