He is the image's painter, Charles Willson Peale.
No wonder the tiny minority of women who got to control their image instructed painters to preserve their youthful good looks, or fabricate a finer face than they ever had.
Images of painter Jackson Pollock at work in his studio are well known: The seemingly dark and brooding artist is crouched on the floor, intensely dripping or flicking brightly colored paint onto his canvases.
According to the label — labeling is excellent throughout — Courbet was known to use photographs when painting, and de Villeneuve was known to sell images to painters.
Before its advent, the history of the art form was mediated through the highly coloured accounts of critics or the stylised images of painters.
But Mr. Wallis said he saw the influence even on photographers who have rejected, in part or whole, the tradition of in-the-moment photography and who compose images like painters: Jeff Wall, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Gregory Crewdson.
And because she isn't caught up in an ideal, she is free to be more playful and ironic, morphing images from painters like O'Keeffe and Velázquez into adobe-colored prints and skirts in delicate petal layers.
A wall of images by painters who knew her gives a sense of Knights's complex but calm intelligence, as well as her beauty and isolation from other people.
This image of the painter at work expressively captures the feeling of her artwork, without being merely a pastiche.
Spurling associates the Vichy charge with a "popular image of the painter indulging himself among the fleshpots of Nice in wartime," which is absurd on its face.
