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Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and private persons, or they may be inspired by admiration or affection for the subject.
The painting is a portrait of Joshua Smith, an artist and friend of Dobell. The painting was awarded the Archibald Prize in 1943. The painting took a modernist approach to portraiture; a break with the realism favoured to that date by Archibald Prize entrants. [1] [I was] trying to create something, instead of copying something. To me, a ...
Portrait of Benedetto Varchi or Portrait of a Man, a c. 1540 oil painting by Titian; Portrait of a Man, a c. 1545 oil on canvas painting; Laughing Cavalier or Portrait of a Man, a 1624 painting by Frans Hals; Portrait of a Man, a c. 1630–1635 painting by Diego Velázquez; Portrait of a Man (Rembrandt, New York), a c. 1657 portrait painting ...
The drawing is estimated to have been drawn c. 1510, possibly as a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci.In 1839, it was acquired by King Carlo Alberto of Savoy. [2] The assumption that the drawing is a self-portrait of Leonardo was made in the 19th century, based on the similarity of the sitter to the possible portrait of Leonardo as Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens [2] and on the high ...
Portrait of a Man (Baldung) Portrait of a Man (Frans Hals, Frick) Portrait of a Man (Parmigianino) Portrait of a Man with a Glove; Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves; Man in a Hammock; Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat; Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit; Man on a Balcony; Man with a Beer Jug; Man with a Glove; A Man with a Quilted Sleeve; Portrait of ...
Today, specialists agree that Russell's portrait offers the most realistic likeness of Van Gogh. [ 9 ] In 2012, Brigitte Banziger and David Hulme argued that, while paintings such as Tom Roberts ' Shearing the Rams (1890) or Frederick McCubbin 's Down on His Luck (1889) are often called "Australia's most famous painting", Russell's Vincent van ...
Portrait of a Man is an oil painting by Diego Velázquez, measuring 68.6 × 55.2 cm (27 × 21 3 ⁄ 4 in.), the frame is from Northern Spain and painted c. 1630–1635. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
The painting was jointly purchased by the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1980, and is generally on display in the National Portrait Gallery. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Another celebrated image of Washington is the full-length Lansdowne portrait , now in the National Portrait Gallery.