Through her research, James caused one of Britain's most illustrious historical portraits, which had been hanging on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery since 1965 — an elaborate, life-size portrayal of the ill-fated royal claimant, Lady Jane Grey — dramatically to lose her head (again ).
His work included social reportage at home and abroad, but he remains best known for his illustrious line of portrait sitters in the 60s, which included everyone from Harold Wilson to Reggie Kray.
While still a teen, Holbein moved to Switzerland and became established in Basel, where he met Erasmus of Rotterdam and other humanists under whose generous patronage he began an illustrious career as portrait and religious painter (1).
Finally, the 10th-century scholar al-Mas'udi reports (The Meadows of Gold, VIII, 74 75) that ʿUmar was among the "illustrious Muslims" whose portraits were displayed in Byzantine churches in recognition of their valour.
If it is some less illustrious young man, the portrait would have, as they say, only antiquarian interest.
One wall showcases portraits of illustrious alumni, including entertainers like Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Simon and Carole King; business executives like Warren Phillips, the former chief executive of Dow Jones & Company; and political and civic leaders like Alan G. Hevesi and Nat Leventhal.
There were vehicles everywhere: mostly Toyota HiLuxes, but also up-armored Humvees with machine-gun turrets, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected personnel carriers, and S.U.V.s whose tinted windows were decorated with portraits of illustrious war criminals.
Simon & Schuster described it as "one of the most anticipated autobiographies of this generation," a "larger-than-life portrait of his illustrious, controversial and ever-entertaining life in and out of the public eye".
Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious.
Of these, the most celebrated was that of Mathew B. Brady, who began in 1844 to form a "Gallery of Illustrious Americans," a collection of portraits of notables taken by his own and other cameramen.
