But follow the line of portraits and Lyon is also Carthan's immediate successor.
The room's neat chronological line of portraits dating back to the late 1600s "allows the past to be presented as seamless and dynastic," said Karl Kusserow, a curator of American art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
HuffPost Gay Voices caught up with Sell last week to discuss his inspiration behind this line of portraits, the other type of work that he does and how all of this attention has influenced his art.
And it lacks a truly major painting, along the lines of "Portrait of Olga Meerson" or "The Italian Woman" (both reproduced in the catalog).
There is the immortally brilliant nonsense of the first line of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, about the '"moocow coming down along the road".
This also suggests, at least in part, that he is in the line of Roman portrait busts, posed on a moralising plinth.
He hired Bronzino as his court artist and charged him with producing political advertising in the form of frescos and tapestries, and with supplying a line of dynastic portraits.
Condo developed a quirky line of "fake Old Master" portraits that combined stylistic elements borrowed from several different artists, including Velázquez, Rembrandt and Goya.
Drawn in a pale, sharp pencil line, a portrait of Paul and Marguerite-Claire Valpinçon from 1861 could almost be mistaken for one of the myriad graphite portraits that Ingres cranked out.
Gray's collected short stories come in at an overwhelming 900 pages, in a handsome quasi-Edwardian hardback designed by the author, and illustrated with his distinctive frontispieces, mocked-up woodcuts, heraldic emblems, totemic symbols and line portraits of strong women.
