Johann Baptist von Lampi "The Elder" painted this portrait of Catherine II.
"You will remain eternal in our hearts forever," reads a billboard with the elder Assad's portrait at the entrance to Qurdaha, his home town, about a mile along a winding road of ancient, rounded hills from Kanaan's village of Bihamra.
The sleek, hyperrealistic portrait Elder did of Garcia, along with further evidence of his range and prolificacy in and out of comics, appears in the first of two books of Elder's art: "The Mad Playboy of Art" and "Chicken Fat: Drawings, Sketches, Cartoons and Doodles".
The portraits publicize "Elder Grace: the Nobility of Aging," an exhibition of photographs by Chester Higgins Jr. at the New-York Historical Society through next Sunday.
Somewhat reminiscent of the Butoh style but without its muscular nuances and vocabulary, the company's piece is centered on a portrait of an elder that is carried around.
Mr. Sultan's father, Irving, speaking of a picture of himself in a suit sitting on the edge of a bed with a vacant stare on his face, related how his son had instructed him not to smile and had created a portrait that the elder Mr. Sultan felt was much more about the photographer than the photographed.
Delacroix is represented by several pieces, including a double pencil portrait of his elder brother, Charles-Henry, and an 1849 sheet of flower studies -- asters, I think, but done as fluffy bursts in pastel -- that he probably whipped off in the Jardin des Plantes.
Originally published in 1989, by the University of California Press, Seale's book is a more sympathetic portrait of the elder Assad, The Times wrote in a review.
Lotte Brand Philip believes the clumsiness in the mother panel indicated that Dürer painted it first, as a youthful attempt at portraiture, and that Albrecht the Elder might have later "commissioned" his own portrait to pair with Barbara's.
On a wall in the village elder's home hangs a framed portrait of a relative in a military uniform.
Inches above her headboard is a portrait of Julian, the elder son she lost in the Spanish civil war.
