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Portrait mode was first used on the Xerox Alto computer, which was considered technologically well ahead of its time when the system was first developed. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Xerox product marketers did not understand how revolutionary the system was, [ 13 ] and the portrait display faded away while common landscape-display televisions were ...
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and writer, whose most notable work is Tales of Old Japan (1871). Nicknamed "Bertie", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters .
Alfred Sisley (/ ˈ s ɪ s l i /; French:; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors).
Myself, Portrait-Landscape (French: Moi-même, portrait-paysage) is an oil on canvas self-portrait by Henri Rousseau, from 1890. It is held in the National Gallery Prague . It was chosen as one of the 105 decisive western paintings for Michel Butor 's imaginary museum.
An 1837 portrait of Cole by fellow Hudson River School painter Asher Brown Durand. Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.
When the artist creates a portrait of himself or herself, it is called a “self-portrait.” Identifiable examples become numerous in the late Middle Ages. But if the definition is extended, the first was by the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten's sculptor Bak, who carved a representation of himself and his wife Taheri c. 1365 BC.
Young Knight in a Landscape, or Portrait of a Knight, is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio, now in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Dated 1510, this is the earliest full-length portrait in Western painting—on the assumption that it is a portrait, as it seems likely. It is characteristic of ...
The first official portrait was painted by John Christen Johansen in 1941. Hoover, however, later commissioned a second portrait that was completed in 1956 by Elmer Wesley Greene. At Hoover's request, this painting replaced the original, and currently stands as the official White House portrait. [12]