The Coast Guard in August awarded a $12,000 contract for a portrait of Adm. Thad W. Allen, a sharp drop from the $23,500 it spent in 2005 for a likeness of Allen's predecessor as commandant, Adm. Thomas H. Collins.
Mr. Dosky, who began his career in the administration of the first President Bush, toted a likeness of Ronald Reagan around for months after that former president left office, a period he described as one of past-presidential cutout greatness.
It wasn't a bad likeness, for a four-year-old; her mother had left it there because of the little pink asterisk that was Magic's anus, Jewel's childish candor.
Bank note designer Louis daubed blocks of colour on his easel without anything close to a likeness appearing for some time, while 17-year-old student Kemi took to her canvas with alarming confidence to quickly produce the faces of Juliet Stevenson and her young son.
Tupac is played by saucer-eyed, high-cheekboned newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr., who's not a bad likeness for his subject.
Dane DeHaan is an eerie likeness for Dean and Robert Pattinson plays Dennis Stock, the ambitious young photographer who persuaded Dean to co-operate.
Well, here is Mr. Nilsson, right outside its doors, in the prime of his starving period — starving for paying customers, anyway, ones willing to sit still for an hour for a likeness that is far from one of those sugary caricatures you get in Times Square.
An ailing John Donne devised his own memorial portrait by posing for a likeness shortly before his death.
Sculpting from models or imagination, Giacometti's hand ate away flesh in his quest for a likeness beyond appearance.
