Sentence examples for old portrait from inspiring English sources

It was an old portrait of a young girl.

Ms. Steckel attracted attention in 1963 with a series of painted montages in which she added ghostly figures to scenes of famous paintings and old portrait photos.

There was the sudden death of her stepfather in 1977, of a heart attack, as he sat in a taxi in New York, clutching an old portrait of Lady Caroline painted by her first husband, Lucian Freud.

At this end, as in an old portrait, the Great Blasket Island itself sits framed behind glass: solemn, its green hills buxom, its head veiled by a private rain.

Why did the 39-year-old princess allow him to photograph her in this unexplained condition...? One explanation may be that she looks as beautiful and as mysterious as the 3000-year old portrait heads of Queen Nefertiti now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Paul Cézanne never made it to Spain, but in 1885 he began copying an old portrait of a woman with a fur stole from a woodcut reproduction, one that was then credited to El Greco but is now in question.

"Still they are better than the old portraits who now hold the posts," said Abbas Nooyan from Kabul.

Exhibitions include fascinating old portraits of citizens of yore, their schools and homes and avocations.

Old portraits and fish pictures hang on the white-washed walls.

In an old cartoon I saw many years ago, a wealthy-looking codger gleefully defaces a series of old portraits as two museum guards look on with dismay.

There are certain faces in old portraits that feel familiar, oddly enough, by virtue of their very anonymity.