In 1815 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London and exhibited his first work in oil, Hermia and Helena, a subject from A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with a portrait miniature, " J. Keats, Esq ", in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1819.

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

** Portrait miniature, a very small painted portrait ( or other type of painting )

* Jean Fouquet ( 1420 – 1481 ) French painter of both panel painting and manuscript illumination, inventor of the portrait miniature.

There was a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, about age 2, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.

Marie Antoinette, at the age of thirteen ; this miniature portrait was sent to the dauphin, so he could see his bride before he met her, by Joseph Ducreux ( 1769 ).

In his last years, he raised the art of the portrait miniature to its first peak of brilliance.

* Isaac Oliver ( c. 1560 – 1617 ), French-born English portrait miniature painter

* Andrew Plimer, portrait miniature artist, born in Bridgwater 1763.

An additional portrait, a miniature, and the original draft of Smithson's will were acquired in 1877, which now reside in the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian Institution Archives, respectively.

Maria Amalia was Charlotte's close confidante, and on her wedding day in 1857, she wore a bracelet with a miniature portrait of her.

Brummell, engraved from a miniature portrait

In 1772, Le Ray signed a contract with the renowned Italian sculptor Jean-Baptiste Nini to oversee his factories and set up the production of portrait medallions: a sculpture in miniature done in terracotta usually for the very wealthy and European Royalty.

He was born in Geneva, where he studied portrait miniature painting.

Prior to the development of photography, a painted miniature portrait was the most common means of recording a person's likeness.

This allows the device to be used in ' landscape ' mode with the keyboard, much like a miniature notebook PC, or in ' portrait ' mode as a PDA.

Ernest Augustus in an 1823 miniature based on an 1802 portrait by William Beechey.

* May 8 – Henry Collen, English royal miniature portrait painter ( b. 1797 )

** John Alefounder, English portrait and miniature painter ( died 1795 )

Although best known for his portraits such as that of Charles VII of France Fouquet also created illuminations, and is thought to be the inventor of the portrait miniature.

An exception must be made for the portrait miniature, where a strong English tradition began with the Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard, who had learnt from Continental artists, and continued with Isaac Oliver and many other artists.

Nathaniel Hone ( 24 April 1718 – 14 August 1784 ) was an Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.

The first collection consisted of 78 paintings, two marble busts, one portrait miniature, and one bronze sculpture.

Manuscript illumination became an important and greatly respected art, and portrait miniature painting flourished in Persia.

The earliest portrait miniature, and possibly the earliest formal self-portrait.

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.

notably Balzac, Chaucer and portrait artists, such as Joseph Ducreux ; meanwhile, the ' Norwich connection ' to physiognomy developed in the writings of Amelia Opie and travelling linguist George Borrow.

For the Genoese aristocracy, then in a final flush of prosperity, he developed a full-length portrait style, drawing on Veronese and Titian as well as Rubens ' style from his own period in Genoa, where extremely tall but graceful figures look down on the viewer with great hauteur.

He developed the concept of the psychological portrait, revealing the thoughts and emotions of his subjects.

Young Yale developed an early affinity for portrait painting, but about 1850 decided to assist his father in improving bank locks and to study mechanical problems.

Since 1888, a portrait of the Master has appeared at the centre of the ace of spades, and the design chosen and developed by the Master has traditionally commemorated an event of importance occurring in the twelve months leading up to the Master ’ s year in office, such as the Company ’ s first Lord Mayor and Sheriff, or some royal or historical celebration.

John Clements, Director of the Historical Armed Combat Association proposed in a foreword to a 2000 edition of the 1467 Talhoffer Fechtbuch that modern use of the term ' martial arts ' is incorrectly associated primarily with Asian practices, and that Talhoffer's work exemplified ' hundreds ' of similar fighting manuals in Medieval Europe that ' present to us a portrait of highly developed and innovative European martial arts based on sophisticated, systematic and effective skills.

Portraits were, as elsewhere in Europe, much the most easiest and most profitable way for an artist to make a living, and the English tradition continued to draw of the relaxed elegance of the portrait style developed in England by Van Dyck, although there was little actual transmission from his work via his workshop.

Domenichino's work, developed principally from Raphael's and the Carracci's examples, mirrors the theoretical ideas of G. B. Agucchi, with whom the painter collaborated on a Treatise on Painting ( Domenichino's portrait of Agucchi in York occasionally has been attributed to Annibale Carracci ).

Many of the art forms and methods used by the Romans — such as high and low relief, free-standing sculpture, bronze casting, vase art, mosaic, cameo, coin art, fine jewelry and metalwork, funerary sculpture, perspective drawing, caricature, genre and portrait painting, landscape painting, architectural sculpture, and trompe l ’ oeil painting — all were developed or refined by Ancient Greek artists.

While teaching at the academy ( 1836 – 1848 ) he developed a portrait style which combined a neoclassical simplicity with a romantic tendency that fused well, and his penchant for realism was satisfied with an intriguing level of psychological penetration.

Philip John Ouless ( 1817 – 1885 ), a successful workmanlike painter of marine subjects, was the father of Walter William Ouless RA ( 1848 – 1933 ), who developed a career as a portrait painter in London, becoming an Associate of the Royal Academy ( ARA ) in 1877 and RA in 1881.

, moved frequently: Ballaghaderreen in Ireland, Beeston, Eccles, before settling in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where his father, who had fought in the First World War, developed a reputation as a good portrait photographer and the family ’ s severe financial difficulties began to ease.

He developed his own style within genre painting, and became proficient in portrait painting.

His father purchased a cigar store that had a small photo studio in the back which he developed, using his skills as a carpenter, into his own portrait studio.

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.

Another version of the standardised imperial portrait ; from the house of Jason Magnus at Cyrene, Libya | Cyrene, North Africa ( British Museum ).

* Letters-a few letters in the original Latin and a portrait of him from a manuscript he copied.

Anne from Branwell's group portrait ( below )

A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of the head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon.

The book is a collection of historic and current portrait photographs of figures from the computer industry.

He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings, including a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death ( displayed at the top of the article ).

File: Mosaic2-plw. jpg | Room 49-Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Roman Britain, circa 4th century ( one of the earliest representations of Christ and the only such portrait on a mosaic floor from anywhere in the Roman Empire )

A possible surviving portrait of Claudius from this period may support this.

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.

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

Another highly regarded portrait from that period is New England Woman ( 1895 ), a nearly all-white oil painting which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Inner picture of a cigar box from the early 1900s with a portrait of Brewster.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

His portrait of Thompson elicited some protests from readers, and other left-wing journals came to the defense of Thompson.

The film is an intimate portrait of three young drag queens from her home state who compete in female impersonator beauty pageants.

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.

Among those from whom he procured portrait commissions were Pedro Téllez-Girón, 9th Duke of Osuna and his wife María Josefa Pimentel, 12th Countess-Duchess of Benavente, María del Pilar de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba ( universally known simply as the " Duchess of Alba "), and her husband José María Álvarez de Toledo, 15th Duke of Medina Sidonia, and María Ana de Pontejos y Sandoval, Marchioness of Pontejos.

Engraved portrait of Henry Purcell by R. White after Closterman, from Orpheus Britannicus

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.

Detail view of the portrait of Adams in the National Portrait Gallery ( United States ) | U. S. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D. C., painted by George Caleb Bingham ; this copy c. 1850 from an original of 1844

In 1788 Reynolds painted the portrait of Lord Heathfield, who became a national hero for his successful defence of Gibraltar during its Great Siege from 1779 to 1783 against the combined forces of France and Spain.

While he was in prison, Pope Pius IX sent Davis a portrait inscribed with the Latin words, " Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus ", which comes from Matthew 11: 28 and translates as, " Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.

Jahangir himself is far from modest in his autobiography when he states his prowess at being able to determine the artist of any portrait by simply looking at a painting.