Sentence examples for a lost portrait from inspiring English sources
The records attributed the portrait to Mary Beale, whom documentary evidence shows to have executed a lost portrait of Hooke's colleague and friend Robert Boyle.
Paula Byrne, a Jane Austen scholar and author who believes she found a lost portrait of Austen last year, has written a new biography of the novelist, revealing her as "far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern" than we thought.
It is thought to have been completed in the 1590s, some forty years after Jane's death, probably as a copy of a lost portrait contemporaneous with Jane; dendrochronology dates the wood panel to 1593.
The mouth is smiling but the dark eyes are wary: a lost portrait of Lady Anne Clifford – the 17th-century noble who became one of the wealthiest women in England and a patron of the arts – has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery.
The lost portrait of Renaissance socialite Isabella d'Este was first uncovered in a Swiss bank vault in 2013 stored among 400 other pieces of art.
Not only Bacon's lost portrait, but the man himself, Freud's friend, his fellow artist, who died in 1992.
One of her boldest claims is to have found the lost portrait, painted by Mary Beale and hanging, appropriately, in the Natural History Museum in London, but mislabelled as the famous naturalist "John Ray".
She surmises that Droeshout's engraving may have been derived from this lost portrait.
According to Maryan Ainsworth, those that were commissioned functioned to highlight lines of succession, such as van der Weyden's portrait of Charles the Bold; or for betrothals as in the case of van Eyck's lost Portrait of Isabella of Portugal.
What brings this to mind is Susan Vreeland's "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," a concise novel that follows the influence of what may have been a lost Vermeer portrait on several generations of lives starting in present day America and hurtling back to the 17th-century Netherlands. 17th-century Netherlands
PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - The discovery of a lost self-portrait of Charles Baudelaire has rekindled interest in the 19th century French poet, revealing a lighter, painterly side to a literary "enfant terrible" known for his dark, erotic poetry.
