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studies may in part be explained by Bonaparte's refusal to sit for the portrait. He had sat for Gros in 1796 on the insistence of Joséphine de Beauharnais...

sitting for photographs. He turned down an opportunity in 1869 to sit for a portrait with Alfred Russel Wallace, explaining that sitting for photographs...

to sit for a portrait, and while painting it the two had discussed their mutual interest in werewolf iconography, after which Fessenden decided to make...

1538 to sit for a portrait. As letters from him and his mother show, he was extremely keen to buy it, and did so some months later; he referred to it simply...

a public figure in Britain, resulting in repeated press requests for photographs, which he despised. That year, he also reluctantly agreed to sit for...

Stillman Osgood, a young portrait artist at the Boston Athenaeum. He asked her to sit for a portrait. They were engaged before the portrait was finished and...

mother regularly takes Josie to sit for her portrait, although unknown to her daughter the artist is making not a painting but a highly-accurate AF body....

to paint! Would you do a portrait of him if it was arranged?" Rutherfurd would go on to make the arrangements, with Shoumatoff agreeing to sit in for...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the debut novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style...

to Hastings. When they finally met in 1582, the Queen claimed that Hastings had smallpox and that it would be intrusive for her to sit for a portrait...

States for London, and by 1777 he was apprenticed there to Benjamin West. By 1781 Stuart's progress was such that West desired to sit for a portrait by the...

introduced her to Eugène Atget's photographs. She became interested in Atget's work, and managed to persuade him to sit for a portrait in 1927. He died...

what he witnessed and encountered, he later asked Professor Black to sit for a portrait. Christopher Baker, National Galleries Scotland, director of European...

to sit for a portrait head in clay by Jon Edgar at her home in Slimbridge in February 2007 as part of the sculptor's environmental series of heads. A...

Gogh agreed to sit for a portrait by Russell. The portrait depicts Van Gogh against a dark, featureless background. In his hand, he holds a pencil, an...

Kölcsey was going to visit his friend, the poet József Bajza in Pest on his way towards Pozsony and there he was going to sit for a portrait. The original...

the army, Swift was asked by the Corps of Engineers to sit for a portrait in his honor. The portrait, painted by Sully, was hung in the library at the academy...

needs and bring in a sizable income. A local organization decides to honor Hiram for his inventions by asking him to sit for a portrait. Hiram refuses. Jane...

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Portrait of Pope Innocent X is an oil on canvas portrait by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, created during a trip to Italy around 1650. Many artists...