Sentence examples for notorious portrait from inspiring English sources

There's more to John Singer Sargent than his notorious portrait of Madame X.

I notice a copy of "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz," Mordecai Richler's notorious portrait of Montreal's Jewish ghetto.

The reality of fleshly deterioration and melancholy age is revealed almost as brutally as in a notorious portrait of the present Elizabeth by Lucian Freud.

When, desperate for attention, she commissioned a third artist to show her with a strap falling from her shoulder, evoking Sargent's notorious portrait, no critic thought the reference was worth a mention.

Two years ago she came up with the notorious "Romance," a portrait of a woman so frustrated by her lover's withholding of sex that she embarks on a series of bold, potentially self-destructive adventures.

The superb Swiss-French painter Balthus (1908-2001) — notorious for his portraits of Lolita-age girls and fond of self-portraits in the guise of a feline — once sent a telegram to the Tate, on the eve of his retrospective there: "NO BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS.

Fagin, fictional character, one of the villains in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist (1837 39) and one of the most notorious anti-Semitic portraits in English literature.

Cameron's destination is the cabin where she was photographed as a child by her French-Chinese grandmother, Celine, in a notorious series of portraits.

The same is true of the film's director, H. S. Miller, who, in making his feature debut, conjures up a nightmarish atmosphere of dread that owes obvious debts both to David Lynch (particularly the later work) and to John McNaughton (namely his notorious horror show, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer").

The artist received attention when his portrait of notorious child killer Myra Hindley was featured in the highly controversial Sensations exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in 1997.

The collodion picture, taken in the garden of the deanery at Christ Church, at that time occupied by Alice's father, on a summer's day in 1858, is perhaps the most notorious of the nine portraits Dodgson made of Alice alone over 13 years.