To complete the list of the chief scholars of Barbalunga, I may mention here Bartolommeo Tricomi, who confined himself to portrait painting, and in this hereditary gift of the school of Domenichino, he greatly excelled.
In his pictures he has the secret of enchanting and of repelling; he has arrived at really definite issues in portrait painting.
The representation here reaches a depth of characterisation which recalls Jan van Eyck's little pearls of portrait painting.
All their creations are based upon the elements of portrait painting, even when they illustrate remote scenes from the New Testament or from mediaeval poetry.
A recent French writer, in referring to the art of portrait painting, exalted it to the highest rank, proclaiming it the greatest of all arts.
Portrait painting, the school of the best artists who aspire to fidelity of representation, was greatly promoted by Passignano, who instructed Filippo Furini, surnamed Sciameroni, the father of the celebrated Francesco.
Cristofano dell'Altissimo, whose talent lay in portrait painting, may be added to these.
He was expert in portrait painting; but he abused this talent by introducing portraits in the modern costume in ancient histories, a fault not uncommon in that age.
He therefore was induced to add landscape not only to historical, but also to portrait painting; as in the instance of a portrait of himself that is one of the most respectable in the second chamber of painters.
He scraped together a small sum of money by portrait painting, borrowed the rest, and felt himself in his element for the first time when he had reached Venice.
When, in the Exhibition of Portrait Painting held at Paris in 1885, there appeared the likeness of Mlle.
In Consuelo she tells us of music; in Horace of authorship; in Le Chateau des Desertes of acting; in Les Maitres Mosaistes of mosaic work; in Le Chateau de Pictordu of portrait painting; and in La Daniella of the painting of landscape.
Portrait painting, Mr. Collier tells us, 'makes no demands on the imagination.
But they owed both their fame and their fortune to portrait painting.
We have often spoken of portrait painting, a lucrative branch of the art in every capital, and more cultivated in Genoa than in most cities.
Two years later, he was still working with Rubens, who, seeing his lameness of invention, counselled him to abide by portrait painting, and to visit Italy.
Velasquez's genre pictures, to which I shall refer by and by, are excellent, but the fate was kind which confined him largely to portrait painting.
His genius lying largely in the direction of portrait painting, he introduced frequently the portraits of contemporaries, causing them to figure as spectators of his sacred scenes.
He changed his profession from saddle-making to portrait painting.
He studied art in Europe and settled in New York City, making a specialty of portrait painting.
After painting historical subjects for a while, he devoted himself to portrait painting.
The most satisfactory productions of this period will be found in the department of portrait painting, which, by its nature, threw the artist upon the exercise of his own original feeling for art.
Portrait painting is one of the ministers of vanity, and vanity is a munificent patroness; historical painting seeks to revive the memory of the dead, and the dead are very indifferent paymasters.
On the advice of Lebrun he devoted himself specially to portrait painting, which he did with such success that in 1700 he was elected a member of the Academy.
Pellegrini became so imbued with the great painter and his ideas that he determined to abandon caricature and give his attention to portrait painting.
Of course, Orchardson, Pettie, and Frank Dicksee are big examples of aptitude in portrait painting by subject painters.
Like almost every other artist, Long took to portrait painting, and his pictures became a great financial success; but his portraits were not for the most part successful from an artist's point of view.
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