This prize for portraiture of a man or woman " distinguished in the Arts, Letters, Science or Politics " has grown to be Australia's most popular and prestigious art award.

He has been compared with Randolph Caldecott, with which it has much in common ; but Dobson's humour was not so " rollicking " and his portraiture not so broad as that of the illustrator of John Gilpin.

While his work includes still-lifes and landscapes, Botero has concentrated on situational portraiture.

1921 saw the founding of the Archibald Prize, Australia's most famous art prize, for portraiture, though defining portraiture has always caused controversy-most notably in 1943 when William Dobell's semi caraciture portrait of an artist friend won the prize and was challenged in court on the basis that it was a caricature, not a portrait.

Since its reopening on July 1, 2006, the Portrait Gallery has also focused on contemporary portraiture in its " Portraiture Now " series, and in its triennial contemporary portrait competition, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.

Throughout his career, Close has endeavored to expand his contribution to portraiture through the mastery of such varied drawing and painting techniques as ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger painting, and stamp-pad ink on paper ; printmaking techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silkscreens ; as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries.

The portraiture of Elizabeth I was carefully controlled, and developed into an elaborate and wholly un-realist iconic style, that has succeeded in creating enduring images.

Sokolov, who in French manner elicits response within the bare subject of the torso and the nude, as does Dallos, also has, like Gimond, a strength for portraiture.

His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture.

For the past 44 years, Bernard Poulin has specialized in corporate and private portraiture as well as commissioned exhibitions.

Smith has won many of Australia's major art prizes multiple times including the Archibald Prize for portraiture three times ; the Wynne Prize twice ; the Sulman Prize three times ; and the Blake Prize for Religious Art six times.

He has won the Archibald Prize for portraiture twice: first in 1987 for Equestrian self portrait, then in 1995 for Self-portrait with stunned mullet.

But to the student of manners his portraiture of low and middle class life in the first half of the 19th century at Paris still has its value.

Initially influenced by Sickert and the Camden Town Group, and the portraiture of the Euston Road School, his work often has a narrative quality, with elements of humor and respectful satire.

Guinness was a member of the National Portrait Development Committee and has a deep interest in and knowledge of portraiture, particularly British historical portraits.

He has published several books: Genial Company: the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture, 1987 ; The Georgians: eighteenth-century portraiture and society, 1990 ; Dramatic Art: theatrical paintings from the Garrick Club, 1997 ; Rembrandt to Gainsborough: masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1999 ; Shakespeare in Art, 2003 ; Bruegel to Rubens: masters of Flemish painting, 2007 ; and The Conversation Piece: scenes of fashionable life, 2009.

Schiele's life and work have also been the subject of essays, including a discussion of his works by fashion photographer Richard Avedon in an essay on portraiture entitled " Borrowed Dogs.

Proofs from these plates have been much valued ; in fact, Strang's portrait etchings began a new form of reproductive portraiture.

He made visits of three years to Italy at the beginning and end of his career, and anticipated Joshua Reynolds in bringing a more relaxed version of " Grand Manner " to British portraiture, combined with very sensitive handling in his best work, which is generally agreed to have been of female sitters.

Unless they were in the form of stone or bronze busts, which they were probably not, none of these images are known to have survived, but they are thought to have been important in the development of the " realistic " tradition of Roman portraiture.

His interest in portraiture led to much development in this artform.

His interest in portraiture led Degas to study carefully the ways in which a person's social stature or form of employment may be revealed by their physiognomy, posture, dress, and other attributes.

For Eakins, portraiture held little interest as a means of fashionable idealization or even simple verisimilitude — it provided the opportunity to reveal the character of an individual through the modeling of solid anatomical form.

Art historians are once again taking an interest in Day, and there are now significant academic texts on Day's homoerotic portraiture, and its similarities to the work of Walter Pater and Thomas Eakins.

His interest in landscape painting and portraiture notwithstanding, Reed was also an avid collector of genre paintings depicting scenes from everyday life.

Although formal portraiture was not Sorolla's genre of preference, because it tended to restrict his creative appetites and could reflect his lack of interest in his subjects, the acceptance of portrait commissions proved profitable, and the portrayal of his family was irresistible.

Mughal painting immediately took a much greater interest in realistic portraiture than was typical of Ilkhnate Persian miniatures.

His passionate interest in the portraiture of Queen Elizabeth I was sidelined " while he wrote a thesis on Elizabethan Court Pageantry supervised by the Renaissance scholar, Dame Frances Yates who ( he says ) restructured and re-formed my thinking.

These represent the first example of portraiture in art history, and it is thought that they were kept in people's homes while the bodies were buried.

" His ukiyo-e transformed the art form from a style of portraiture focused on the courtesans and actors popular during the Edo Period in Japan's cities into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals.

In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, his portraiture " remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement, penetration into character, and a combined richness and purity of style ".

The Archibald Prize for portraiture ( Australia's most prestigious art prize ), the Sulman Prize for subject / genre painting and the Wynne Prize for landscape painting are awarded each year by the trustees of the AGNSW.

He was our first major painter to accept completely the realities of contemporary urban America, and from them to create powerful, profound art ... In portraiture alone Eakins was the strongest American painter since Copley, with equal substance and power, and added penetration, depth, and subtlety.

Realistic portraiture, and images of animals and plants, was developed in Mughal art beyond what the Persians had so far achieved, and the size of miniatures increased, sometimes onto canvas.

It was used for portraiture, landscape work, architectural photography and art photography.

Alexander's breastplate depicts Medusa, the famous Gorgon, and his wavy hair is typical of royal portraiture as established in Greek art of the fourth century B. C.

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek / Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture.

In his will, he made the two bequests by which he is best remembered by the general public: funds for the Archibald Fountain in Sydney's Hyde Park, which he specified must be designed by a French sculptor, and the Archibald Prize for portraiture, now Australia's most prestigious art prize.

Renaissance Humanism and the rise of a wealthy urban middle class, led by merchants, began to transform the old social context of art, with the revival of realistic portraiture and the appearance of printmaking and the self-portrait, together with the decline of forms like stained glass and the illuminated manuscript.

Today, erotic artists thrive, although in some circles, much of the genre is still not as well accepted as the more standard genres of art such as portraiture and landscape.

By the Renaissance the mixture of revived classical mythology and Christian subjects was also considered to fall under the heading of decorum, as was the increasing habit of mixing religious subjects in art with lively genre painting or portraiture of the fashionable.

His portraiture, in a style similar to Lawrence's, included Princess Victoria ( later Queen Victoria, for whom he was art teacher for eight years before his death on 4 December 1836 ), and Richard Ayton, a writer who collaborated with landscape artist William Daniell ( Westall's brother-in-law ).

Aspiring to expand the ideological expressiveness of his images, Kramskoi created art that existed on the cusp of portraiture and genre-painting (" Nekrasov during the period of ' Last songs ,'" 1877 – 78 ; " Unknown Woman ," 1883 ; " Inconsolable grief ," 1884 ; all in Tretyakov gallery ).

El Greco and Velázquez were both painters, the former most notably recognized for his religious depictions and the latter — now regarded as one of the most important figures in all of Spanish art — for his precise, realistic portraiture of the contemporary court of Philip IV.

The English Reformation produced a huge programme of iconoclasm that destroyed almost all medieval religious art, and all but ended the skill of painting in England ; English art was to be dominated by portraiture, and then later landscape art, for centuries to come.

Though very little remains of Greek wall art and portraiture, certainly Greek sculpture and vase painting bears this out.