His portrait shows him sitting, in genially informal pose, on a high stool, his right hand in his pocket.
In his Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise (1831), the informal pose and the smile both break with the traditional treatment of heroic subjects in high sculpture.
It is in the grand manner of Van Dyck fused with a more informal posing of the subjects and a generous use of color.
In another studio, some years previously, John had stuck up a photo of Liverpool footballer Kenny Dalglish, with a handwritten caption: "God, an informal pose".
Leibovitz, famed for her celebrity portraits, was photographing the Queen for a series of official pictures to commemorate her trip to Washington in May when she inadvertently annoyed her by suggesting a more informal pose.
The morning sale on March 22 is devoted to a private collection of Indian and Southeast Asian art amassed over six decades: one of the high points will be a fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Nepalese gilt-bronze figure of Indra in a regal yet informal pose, a hand resting on one knee.
Sargent presented the painting as a gift to his hostess, but, offended by her appearance and her son's informal pose, she rejected it, to the dismay of James, who wrote to her that he "absolutely and unreservedly adored" the painting.
These pieces include "Clown Making Up," a 1910 painting by John Sloan that shows an elderly clown who seems like a sage, and George Luks Clownwn," from 1929, whose subject, though heavily made up, is shown in an informal pose as if he was an important person, discoursing.
Unmanaged waste in informal settlements poses serious health hazards and lead to poor living standards.
