Sentence examples for based on a portrait from inspiring English sources

Engraving of Jane Austen based on a portrait by her sister Cassandra.

(The wax figure of Henry VIII, for example, is based on a portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger).

Bacon is popularly thought of as the pontiff of existential horror, his most famous image being of a screaming Pope Innocent X based on a portrait by Velázquez.

But it was mainly based on a portrait of him, and critics at the time said it was so inaccurate that it might as well have been Handel.

Based on a portrait by the Italian Mannerist Bronzino, the man has ruddy, leonine features rendered in red chalk and shiny metal shoulder armor painted in gouache.

She also decorated her books with paintings and drawings, and she often included self-portraits in them (based on a portrait from 1595, now in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery).

Art nerds will get a kick out of matching FridaMoji to the Kahlo paintings they're based on, including "Self Portrait with Monkeys" and "The Two Fridas".

"All the surviving portraits of him – even the very later ones with humped backs and things which were obviously later additions – facially are quite similar [to each other] so it has always been assumed that they were based on a contemporary portrait painted in his lifetime or possibly several portraits painted in his lifetime," said historian and author John Ashdown-Hill.

One is a portrait of Euripides based on a self-portrait by de Chirico, the other resembles an unfinished work by Matthew Ritchie, who also exhibits at Andrea Rosen.

David Crockett — he didn't like being called "Davy" — in an image based on a John Gadsby Chapman portrait.

Cardinal Wolsey is bug-eyed and jowly in an aquatint based on a 1526 portrait.