Sentence examples for before the portrait from inspiring English sources

A year before the portrait was taken, Eliot's first work of fiction, "Scenes of Clerical Life," appeared in Blackwood's Magazine.

They were ordered to get on their knees and bow before the portrait of a Hindu preacher.

Though the two met several times before the portrait was completed in the fall of 2002, the artist worked primarily from photographs taken in the Oval Office.

The novelist Erica Jong, best known for her novel Fear of Flying, did start to sit for him with her large poodle, but unfortunately it died before the portrait was finished.

An excerpt of the interview with his most recent subject is hung in the middle of the warehouse and before the portrait is unveiled, the audience are invited to read the verbatim text.

I'll occasionally spend an hour or so there, feeling small and unimportant before the portraits of Kant and the great German archaeologist Johann Winckelmann.

The 1979 exhibit, Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana, was held at the IMA from January to March before the portraits were placed on permanent display at the Indiana Statehouse.

When Cézanne painted his dealer, Ambrose Vollard, he made Vollard arrive at eight in the morning and sit on a rickety platform until eleven-thirty, without a break, on a hundred and fifty occasions — before abandoning the portrait.

In the three months before the sale, the portrait had been all over the media.

On the crimson wall before them hangs the portrait of a Chinese icon: a superstar of stage and screen who rose from humble origins to become one of her country's most recognisable faces.

There are five standard floor plans and seven interior designs by four designers to choose from before you add the portrait of Aunt Millie and the Picasso ceramics.