There were several fairly good minor portraits in the play, including William Hansen's impersonation of a stubborn, rather pathetic father, and Katherine Squire's vigorous characterization of a farm mother who brooked no hifalutin' nonsense from her daughter, or anyone else.

Just then a man approached her with a tray of cheap cameos, Parker fountain pens, rosaries, papal portraits.

He met Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory, shortly after the Armistice, and married her in January, 1919.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

Back in America in 1889, Beaux proceeded to paint portraits in the grand manner, taking as her subjects members of her sister's family as well as the elite of Philadelphia.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

While Beaux stuck to her portraits of the elite, American art was advancing into urban and social subject matter, led by artists such as Robert Henri who espoused a totally different aesthetic, " Work with great speed .. Have your energies alert, up and active.

When a shipment of family heirloom restored portraits arrives at the castle, Laura finds one of her ancestors, " Mircalla, Countess Karnstein ", dated 1698.

Other portraits include paintings of his sister-in-law and her husband, Madame and Monsieur Seriziat.

As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day.

Her painted portraits became less realistic and more a set of enigmatic icons that made her look much younger than she was.

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.

These types of paintings were far more demanding than the informal portraits upon which Anguissola had based her early reputation, as it took a tremendous amount of time and energy to render the many intricate designs of the fine fabrics and elaborate jewelry associated with royal subjects.

In her later life, Anguissola painted not only portraits, but religious themes, as she had done in the days of her youth.

The main body of Anguissola's earlier work consists of self-portraits ( the many " autoritratti " reflect the fact that portraits of her were frequently requested due to her fame ) and portraits of her family, which are considered by many to be her finest works.

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

Robin Lane Fox states " By the early fifth century, we know of the ownership of private icons of saints ; by c. 480-500, we can be sure that the inside of a saint's shrine would be adorned with images and votive portraits, a practice which had probably begun earlier ".

Icon of the Melanesian Brotherhood Martyrs at Canterbury Cathedral ( Anglican Communion ) With the Reformation, after an initial uncertainty among early Lutherans, who painted a few " icon "- like depictions of leading Reformers, and continued to paint scenes from Scripture, Protestants came down firmly against icon-like portraits, especially larger ones, even of Christ.

In early 2011, Tom Waits completed a set of 23 poems entitled Seeds on Hard Ground, which were inspired by Michael O ' Brien's portraits of the homeless in his upcoming book, Hard Ground, which will include the poems alongside the portraits.

By early June, throngs of young demonstrators lined the capital's major thoroughfares holding giant portraits of Mao, beating drums, and shouting slogans against his perceived enemies.

As early as the 17th century, people were struck by the vitality of Frans Hals ' portraits.

This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 AD, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century North American artists, including Jasper Johns, Tony Scherman, and Fernando Leal Audirac.

Holbein's commissions in the early stages of his second English period included portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Hanseatic League.

Although well-known early in the century for his drawings and etchings, the bulk of John's later work consisted of portraits, some of the best of which were of his two wives and his children.

A major early work on this group is F. DuCane Godman's Monograph of the Petrels, five fascicles, 1907 — 1910., with portraits of figures by John Gerrard Keulemans.

The structure is open daily free of charge and serves as an art gallery, housing a large and famous collection of portraits of prominent early Americans painted by Charles Willson Peale and many others.

Gertrude's early efforts at word portraits are catalogued in and under individual's names in Kellner, 1988.

During his early career, Degas also painted portraits of individuals and groups ; an example of the latter is The Bellelli Family ( c. 1858 – 67 ), a brilliantly composed and psychologically poignant portrayal of his aunt, her husband, and their children.

In particular, the early 19th century art of painting with its idyllic portraits of country and nature expresses the intellectual world of Romanticism.

At one time Lawrence was more popular in the United States and France than he was in Britain, and some of his best known portraits, including those of Elizabeth Farren, Sarah Barrett Moulton ( known to her family as Pinkie ), and Charles Lambton ( the " Red Boy ") found their way to the United States during the early 20th century enthusiasm there for English portraits.

The installation of the Vendôme Chapel between two buttresses of the nave in the early 15th century resulted in the loss of one more lancet window, though it did allow for the insertion of a fine late-gothic window with donor portraits of Louis de Bourbon and his family witnessing the Coronation of the Virgin with assorted saints.

The common name " Spanish work " was based on the belief that Catherine of Aragon brought many blackwork garments with her from Spain, and portraits of the later 15th and early 16th centuries show black embroidery or other trim on Spanish chemises.

His full-color, pen & ink portraits of 36 early great blues singers and musicians is entitled " Heroes of the Blues Trading Cards ".

The Museum also holds James Lafayette's society portraits, a collection of over 600 photographs dating from the late 19th to early 20th centuries and portraying a wide range of society figures of the period, including bishops, generals, society ladies, Indian maharajas, Ethiopian rulers and other foreign leaders, actresses, people posing in their motor cars and a sequence of photographs recording the guests at the famous fancy dress ball held at Devonshire House in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons.

The works spanned his entire output, from his early collages, Polaroids, portraits of celebrities, self-portraits, male and female nudes, flowers and statues.

At a later period he had sittings with Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the gallery at Karlsruhe.

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.

The new edition added a second preface, a chapter about his life up to 1846, a chapter concerning the post-war period ( ending with his 1884 retirement from the army ), several appendices, portraits, improved maps, and an index ( 1886 edition:

He produced numerous portraits during this period: Madame Duvauçay, François-Marius Granet, Edme-François-Joseph Bochet, Madame Panckoucke, and that of Madame la Comtesse de Tournon, mother of the prefect of the department of the Tiber.

This painting also demonstrated Whistler's ongoing work pattern, especially with portraits: a quick start, major adjustments, a period of neglect, then a final flurry to the finish.

Thus, the golilla was the height of fashion, and appeared in most of the male portraits of the period.

During this period a team of painters that included Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio created a series of frescoed panels depicting the life of Moses and the life of Christ, offset by papal portraits above and trompe l ’ oeil drapery below.

The gallery is richly endowed with art of the Mughal Empire, including fine portraits of the emperors and other paintings and drawings, jade wine cups and gold spoons inset with emeralds, diamonds and rubies, also from this period are parts of buildings such as a jaali and pillars.

These years can be characterized as Picabia's proto-Dada period, consisting mainly of his portraits mécaniques.

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits ( also Faiyum mummy portraits ) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from the Coptic period.

While painted Cartonnage mummy cases date back to pharaonic times, the Faiyum mummy portraits were an innovation dating to the Coptic period on time of the Roman occupation of Egypt .< ref > Berman, Lawrence, Freed, Rita E., and Doxey, Denise.

Although interest in Ancient Egypt steadily increased after that period, further finds of mummy portraits did not become known before the early 19th century.

Once again, a long period elapsed before more mummy portraits came to light.

In the virtual absence of other panel paintings from the period in question, it is difficult to make firm statements about the stylistic context of the portraits.

The female portraits suggest a coarse chronological scheme: Simple hairstyles with a central parting in the Tiberian period are followed by more complex ringlet hairstyles, nested plaits and curly toupées over the forehead in the late 1st century.

In a bit of tongue-in-cheek, portraits of the founder and leaders of the Dedham Shipping Company are all of Warden ( in appropriate period dress ).

Over a period of several years, they collaborated on a series of portraits, inviting individuals and groups of people to pose for Morath wearing Steinberg's masks.

To this period belong several of his comparatively few portraits.

The great French writer Colette, who was Vivien's neighbor from 1906 to 1908, immortalized this aberrant period in The Pure and the Impure, a collection of portraits showing the spectrum of sexual behavior.

Classical costumes had long been worn by fashionable ladies posing " as " some figure from Greek or Roman myth in a portrait ( in particular there was a rash of such portraits of the young " model " Emma, Lady Hamilton from the 1780s ), but such costumes were only worn for the portrait sitting and masquerade balls until the Revolutionary period, and perhaps, like other exotic styles, as undress at home.