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Genuine Prokofiev
One of the Brussels Philharmonic's female subscribers made a habit of sketching ...
Ferenc Molnar: Family Portrait
While Ferenc Molnar was living in a Viennese hotel in the 1920s, a large group o...
Toast of the Town
To celebrate the Melbourne Festival in October 2002, New Zealand artist Maurice ...
Vatican Wag
Famed photographer Yousuf Karsh was once commissioned to take an official portra...
Grrrrreat Photography
What transformed Yousuf Karsh from a journeyman photographer into a star was a c...
Cock & Bishop
In a bid to compliment the eminent cleric Richard Watson one day, the owner of W...
Lang Portrait
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, once commissioned a portrait fr...
Mud
The American sculptor Jo Davidson, noted for his celebrity sculpture portraits, ...
Portrait of the Artist as a...
During the 1920s, the Rumanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi and James Joyce were...
Nosy Sitter
A certain woman, having commissioned a $5,000 portrait from John Singer Sargent,...
Say What?
Professional photographers rarely ask subjects to "Say Cheese!" The result looks...
Window to a Paisley Soul?
While painting James Joyce, the noted portraitist Patrick Tuohy, began to muse u...
Rigaudy Portrait?
The French painter Hyacinthe Rigaud was once commissioned to paint the portrait ...
Not Standing
"I was conducting a wastedr round the Bencher's rooms at the Middle
Temple Hall...
Sargent's Order
Having been commissioned to paint Teddy Roosevelt's portrait, John Singer Sargen...
Portrait of a Lady
"I received a commission to paint a beautiful lady who counted
millionaires amo...
Neke Carson: Rectal Realist
Andy Warhol once had his portrait painted by oddball performance artist Neke Car...
Cheap Lie
While visiting an antique shop one day, William Gladstone encountered an early 1...
Zeuxis: Laughably Bad
One day in 397 BC, Zeuxis completed a portrait of an old woman and found his bru...
Blooming Mad?
In the spring of 1883, Claude Monet began painting the portrait of a huge oak tr...
Richard Avedon & the Windso...
In April 1957, the legendary celebrity photographer Richard Avedon was enlisted ...
Andres Serrano & Christophe...
Some time after his paralysis (following a polo injury) Christopher Reeve was vi...
Duke of Monmouth: Portrait
"The Duke of Monmouth was beheaded in 1685 in one of history's messiest executio...
Reidar Osen: Lucky Dealer
In July 2004, Norwegian art dealer Reidar Osen learned that a painting which he ...
Spirited Discussion
One day a visitor surprised William Blake while he was working alone on a pictur...
Martha Stewart: Perfectly M...
In June 2003, Martha Stewart addressed the court during a hearing examining her ...
Pablo Picasso: Portrait of ...
In 1906, Gertrude Stein had her portrait painted by Picasso. To call the collabo...
Treed Off?
Winston Churchill, an amateur painter, was once asked why he chose to paint land...
Neverland Kitsch
During the construction of his Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson had a secret gal...
Portrait of Alexander Graha...
The artist J.W.L. Forster once visited Alexander Graham Bell at Beinn Bhreagh (B...
Honest Swindler (long)
In 1796, Martha Washington commissioned Gilbert Stuart to paint portraits of her...
Whistler's Sitter
James McNeill Whistler was once commissioned to paint a life-size nude portrait ...
Poussin It?
Nicolas Poussin's friend and patron Paul Fréart de Chantelou once declared his d...
Paul Martin & Wyndham Lewis
"The painter, novelist and polemicist [Wyndham Lewis] was born in Canada (aboard...
Angelic Voice
Franz Haydn visited Sir Joshua Reynolds in his studio one day shortly after the ...
Justice Holmes
Charles Hopkinson's famous full-length portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Liebermann
In the early 1930s, despite the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, emissaries wer...
Cromwell's Portrait
While viewing an exhibition of paintings of English royalty by the renowned port...
Roosevelt's Deadline
While sitting for a portrait one day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announ...
Restoration
"As a conservator of paintings in the seaport town of Falmouth, Maine, I often c...
Washington Portrait
Though he had vowed not to sit for portraits after his retirement, George Washin...
Mouthy
One day a woman complained to John Singer Sargent about his treatment of her mou...
Stiff Competition
While sitting for the photographer Yousuf Karsh one day, George Bernard Shaw rem...
Body Blow
While crossing the Atlantic by ship one year, the famed portrait artist Joszi Ko...
Wellington's Grunt?
Commissioned to produce the colossal equestrian statue of Wellington in Edinburg...
Portrait Pun
Legendary London hostess Mrs. Ronald Greville, the daughter of Scottish beer bar...
Bargain Portrait
"An American called on chance at Sir William Orpen's studio last summer and want...
Royal Portrait
"Queen Elizabeth II spends several sessions every month sitting to have her port...
Signature Artist
When Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his famous portrait of the lovely Shakespearean...
Sir Joshua Reynolds: Reynol...
In one of his 3,000 portraits, Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his subject with his ...
Retouching Moment
One day Cecil Beaton met with the Queen Mother while she perused a number of pho...
Gargantuan Insult
The famed French caricaturist Honoré Daumier was once sentenced to six months in...
Alfred Hitchcock & Lew Wass...
"Alfred Hitchcock had a complicated relationship with Wasserman [his agent and p...
Venus of Urbino
Although his wife was unattractive and growing old, The Duke of Urbino agreed to...
Image Squared?
A friend once encouraged Plotinus to have his portrait painted. The philosopher ...
Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell once sat for the portrait artist Peter Lely, renowned for his po...
For Whom the Bell Tolls
After he he taken holy orders and repudiated his former worldly life, John Donne...
Prince Philip Portrait
In 2004, the artist Stuart Pearson Wright unveiled a portrait of Prince Philip, ...
David James & Rio Ferdinand
"I did one of Rio [Ferdinand] once," English goalkeeper David James recalled of ...
Hero Status
By his own admission, Bob Dole was hardly immune to hypocrisy. "I told John Glen...
Papal Swords
In 1505, as pennance for a quarrel with Julius II, Michelangelo began a year-lon...
Silent Insult
One morning Calvin Coolidge's wife Grace decided to surprise her husband by hang...
Princely Sums
While sitting for the painting of Edward VII's coronation in 1901, the Prince of...
Flanders Mare
Henry VIII's powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell, endeavoring to strengthen Engla...
Family Portrait
The de Levis family was reputed to be the oldest in Christendom. Moreover, their...
Romaine Brooks
Romaine Brooks's inherited wealth freed her from the need to please her sitters:...
Elizabeth von Arnim: Causti...
"I asked Elizabeth [the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim]," Somerset Maugham once re...
Stresemann
"Gustav Stresemann's volubility made impossible a long, reasoned statement advoc...
Classic Orpen
"Sir William Orpen was commissioned to paint the scene of the Versailles Treaty....
Thackeray
Thackeray was once accosted at the Garrick Club by a pompous officer of the Guar...
Anthony Vandyke: Portrait B...
In a portrait of his patron, Charles I of England, Anthony Vandyke painted the k...
Gainsborough's Nose
Thomas Gainsborough was once commissioned to paint a portrait of Sarah Siddons. ...
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