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Example sentences for "length portrait"

  • Here also are two pictures of the Assumption by Del Sarto, a full-length portrait of Philip II.

  • The Great Window is divided off into fourteen compartments, one of which has a half-length portrait of King Henry, and the others are filled with armorial crests and devices.

  • To the former is attributed the large whole-length portrait at Hampton Court of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, in a suit of bright red.

  • I mean the full-length portrait of Captain Keppel, painted in 1752.

  • What chiefly attracted the public notice, however, was the whole-length portrait which he painted of his friend and patron Admiral Keppel.

  • The full-length portrait of her at Hertford House (No.

  • As I entered, a half-length portrait of George III stood before me upon an easel, and Mr. West was sitting with back toward me copying from it upon canvas.

  • I am engaged in painting the full-length portrait of Mr. Hone's little daughter, a pretty little girl just as old as Susan.

  • I have been officially notified of my appointment to paint the full-length portrait of Lafayette for the City of New York, so that you may make it as public as you please.

  • It seems that shortly after the Gainsboroughs settled in Bath a full-length portrait of Miss Ford, who afterwards became Thicknesse's second wife, was painted and presented to that gentleman.

  • A full-length portrait of a man with a Spanish-looking head, painted in a manner that is surely of the greatest.

  • A full-length portrait of Mr. Walter Sickert, a favourite pupil of Mr. Whistler's and one of his cleverest disciples.

  • It was a full-length portrait in black evening dress, with a big white cloak over the shoulders.

  • Engraved in line a fine whole-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth, afterwards republished and reduced in size.

  • In reference to this there is a story extant that Reynolds once scraped a large whole-length portrait in a day and a night; the story is true, but it is also true that it is one of his worst plates.

  • The whole-length portrait of His Majesty in Regimentals, with Lord Amherst and the Marquis of Lothian on Horseback, in the back-ground.

  • A whole-length portrait of His Majesty,--Lord Amherst and the Marquis of Lothian in the back-ground.

  • Over the chimney-piece is a fine full-length portrait of Queen Anne by Sir Godfrey Kneller; the room also contains other interesting paintings and ornaments.

  • The artist removed to Great Newport street, and charged twelve guineas for a bust, twenty-four guineas for half-length and double that sum for a full-length portrait.

  • Here the artist has painted a half-length portrait of himself engaged in drawing, while two dogs look over his shoulders with a critical expression.

  • To the last he had been elected in 1818, and had sent to the academy a full-length portrait of Benjamin West.

  • He painted a full-length portrait of Commodore Keppel, which at once established his reputation.

  • His studies in biography show an aptitude for personal delineation; and in one of his earlier volumes there is a full-length portrait of Sir Robert Peel, executed with much skill and comprehension.

  • To this we owe the full-length portrait of Major Gahagan, and a whole gallery of other drawings, usually of Irishmen, which have been the delight of innumerable readers.

  • Yet the world would have been poorer for the loss of this memorial of an Unquiet Life, and the historical gallery of literature would have missed the full-length portrait of an extraordinary man.

  • But after a while he found opportunity to draw a whole-length portrait of his master with charcoal on a white wall, which the pirates deemed so marvellous that they set him at liberty.

  • The central head here was clearly used as a study for the full-length portrait, No.

  • Terburg settled eventually at Deventer, where he married and became burgomaster: a full-length portrait of him in that capacity is in the Museum at the Hague.

  • The evening before I departed I visited the full-length portrait of Uncle Silas, and studied it for the last time carefully, with deep interest, for many minutes; but with results vaguer than ever.

  • Vandyk, and a half-length portrait of Oliver Cromwell, by R.

  • I remarked in it a full-length portrait of Charles I.

  • She had painted the best full-length portrait of Judge Longworth, father of the husband of Alice Roosevelt.

  • Extracts from a letter replying to my question: "Is there a full-length portrait of Sophia Smith, now to be seen anywhere in the principal building at Smith College, Northampton?

  • It is a whole-length portrait of Mr. William Grant, of Congalton, skating in St. James Park.

  • Upon the wall of the room is a full-length portrait of Washington, painted by Charles Wilson Peale, * under peculiar circumstances.

  • I once saw a full-length portrait of himself which he painted at the age of eighty--a fine specimen of art.


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