A volume of portraits of the great peaks by his hand, an English edition of Herr Studer's, The Highest Summits of Switzerland, and the Story of their Ascent, would be welcomed both by lovers of the arts and of the Alps.
Its floor, uneven with age, was covered with a carpet whose patterns had faded into a dim monochrome, and its walls were dark with portraits of Copplestone forefathers in flowing wigs and satins.
Even to those who knew him only by sight he was memorable, on account of his astonishing likeness to theportraits or statues of his father.
One evening when he was adjusting it the light caught his features at some peculiar angle, and for a fugitive moment his face was an exact and living reproduction of one of the best-known portraits of Byron.
Amongst the treasures on the walls of the corridors and saloons are several Holbeins, portraits of contemporaries of his, including Henry VIII.
During your absence I have made from memory two full-length portraits of you.
Portraits of the most noted composers represented are given in each volume.
There were family portraits of himself from fifty years of age and upwards and, most convincing of all, there was the series of likenesses taken since the operation--showing the daily progress of rejuvenation.
This gallery of portraits was an example of how carefully and scientifically Gran'pa was proceeding, and, unsatisfied with mere externals, he also paid periodic visits to Dr.
Tolstoi himself as a young man had little charm, and his numerous portraits all plainly indicate the fact.
Then these introductions are themselves so wonderfully vivid, are given with such brilliancy of outline, that they are little works of art in themselves, like the matchless pen portraits of Carlyle.
For portraits there are some few rules which should be followed in trimming.
Perhaps the greatest use to which combination printing is now put is in the production of portraits with natural landscape backgrounds.
Part of it facing the magistrates' chapel was turned into a prison for petty malefactors; and the two upper salas were converted into a provisional Audiencia, or supreme court, large halls hung with the portraits of the old governors.
I walked through room after room, along corridor after corridor; everywhere there were pictures, everywhere portraits of Wallenstein, and battle-scenes in which he led on his troops.
To these portraitsof Patmore I have nothing of importance to add; and I have given my own estimate of Patmore as a poet in an essay published in 1897, in Studies in Two Literatures.
With Portraitsand Sketches, including Portraits of Sir Algernon West and of the Hon.
The keeper of the Timberlake oil portraits was Lucy, slave of Nat Scales, and Lucy's husband was Nathan Scales.
His portraits of men have a sort of similarity; but it is the similarity not of a painting, but of a bas-relief.
All the portraitsof him are singularly characteristic.
They will recollect, not unmoved, those shelves loaded with the varied learning of many lands and many ages, and those portraits in which were preserved the features of the best and wisest Englishmen of two generations.
It is for this latter reason that he has given us brief and interesting biographies of those whose influence was greatest in shaping and directing the movement, illustrating his narrative by portraits of them as they lived and acted.
At any rate portraits of this kind have not been modernised to suit the taste of a later age, as has been done with King Arthur in Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King.
In the long historical drama of Bothwell, which has twenty-one scenes in its two acts, we have spirited portraits of the fierce nobles who surrounded Mary Stuart during her brief and distracted reign.
There is a savage caricature of Roebuck, and so Carlyle goes on hanging up portraits of the notables whom he met and conversed with, to the great edification of these latter days.
Mrs. Nansen is said to be the most accomplished lady ski-runner in Norway, as her husband is the champion of his sex; their portraits in the costume of this national sport are extremely characteristic.
In 1641 he painted some small portraits on copper in Rome.
He, of course, had not the court and society following of Sir Joshua Reynolds who came after, with many full-length portraits of nobility painted to look a trifle nobler than reality.
There are several full-length portraits here ascribed to Velasquez, but they are not entirely by his hand.
Both portraits are reproduced herewith in photogravure, and the student has a good opportunity to compare them.
Bellini belonged to the Early and Titian to the High Renaissance, and, in a measure, the portraits emphasize a difference in time, though they may have been painted in the same year.
Both portraitsare excellent, but they are by no means alike in point of view or method.
Many excellent portraits by both Reynolds and Gainsborough, with their contemporaries Hoppner, Romney, and others are here.
In so doing he gives many vivid and revealing portraits of great Labour figures of the last generation, from Keir Hardie to Rosa Luxemburg, 'the Red Tigress.
I could not resist the temptation of calling and telling the lady of the house of the Claimant's death, and asking to see the portraits and the relics.
In his collection was an album containing the portraits of murderers and their victims.
He reminds us again of Meredith in his highly intellectual conception as in his portraits of women.
The foundation of his art lies in his portraits of women.
Their portraits appear in one of my pictures with pony, my children and dogs, and are very like them.
But Bartholomew's style is here often quaint and picturesque; and I think I could give no better specimen of it than by translating his portraits of the rival Cleons of Prague.
The more closely one looks into this book, the more clearly is it seen how much thought, how much mental selection, as well as how much reading, have gone to the making of these picturesque portraits of writers.
The composition is in the style of those laboured portraits in words which we sometimes see placed at the bottom of a print to fill up lines of expression which the bungling Artist had left imperfect.
He was cousin of Miss Margaret Gillies, who painted so many portraitswith success in our house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portraits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
