By 1769, when he painted Isabella Countess of Sefton, it is easy to see the refining influence of Van Dyck in the dignified simplicity of the design and the subtle muted colouring.
Will the design look dignified and respectable at a life celebration or memorial service?
There he meets a community of good-looking, mildly goofy yet dignified farm-animal puppets, designed by Aaron Cromie.
It could work with commissioners, families, individuals with a learning disability and providers to co-design more dignified and suitable types of support.
While The Metric System's designs are traditional, dignified, reflecting Nordic history, it was Snøhetta's beautiful, futuristic pixel art renditions which set the web abuzz, earning their mock-ups the title of "The World's Best Money" from Citylab, and a veritable fjord-load of internet points on Reddit.
Mark Wigley, dean emeritus of the graduate school of architecture at Columbia University and chair of the judges, said the "genuinely dignified" status of the public in the winning design was "a wake-up call to the Guggenheim and architecture in general".
Still, there's a sense that if Toronto's current logo, with its image of City Hall, was originally designed to broadcast a signal of dignified, centralized leadership, that's not exactly what it's doing at the moment.
The products whose design I most treasure have maintained a dignified constancy: Tabasco or Lee & Perrins.
It was replaced in 1994 with a statue designed by Miguel Joyal depicting Riel as a dignified statesman.
