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unusual facts about Portrait painting


Elizabeth Creed

She married a gentleman named Creed, of Oundle in Northamptonshire, and, as an amateur, painted altarpieces for several churches in the neighbourhood, and also portraits of her friends.



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Dudu Gerstein

After two years in Paris, he moved to New York and attended classes of the Art Students League, where he learned portrait painting and printmaking.

Georges Feydeau

That same year Feydeau married Marianne Carolus-Duran, the daughter of the famous portrait painter Carolus-Duran.

Jim Geringer

His official gubernatorial portrait painting was created by artist Michele Rushworth and unveiled at the state capitol in 2008.

John Seymour Lucas

He was born into an artistic London family, (he was the nephew of the painter John Lucas) and originally trained as a woodcarver, but turned his attention to portrait painting and entered first the St. Martin's Lane Art School and later the Royal Academy Schools.

Marjory Lydia Nicholls

Her executors commissioned a portrait painting by Mary Elizabeth Tripe of Marjory.

Pelagio Palagi

In the Lombard capital the private clientele, wider and more stimulating than the one in Rome, lead with to dedicate himself to portrait painting, especially of Giuseppe Bossi and Andrea Appiani; the public commissions asserted him as the portrayer of the protagonists of the Restoration.