When she took time to take questions from this ex-seminarian about her intriguing, and ongoing, project, she was quick to point out hat she is still working on her portraits of Jeffrey Hunter and Willem Dafoe.
Painting a subject who is famous for portraying so many different characters proved a struggle for Louise Hearman, who won the 2016 Archibald prize on Friday for her portrait of Barry Humphries – a man she described as having "a truly fugitive face".
The bush-like leafy textures on the faces of her portraits resemble the gritty surfaces of coral reefs and wave-battered sea walls, not dissimilar to the creatures in the work of filmmaker Tobias Stretch.
Mr. Hrebejk resorts to a few cinematic tricks: superimposing Marie's face on her cherished portrait of the Virgin Mary, conjuring the occasional ghost and shooting especially dramatic scenes at 20 frames a second, rather than the usual 24.
A similar boom is evident in crime fiction, where two of the hottest hits of recent years, Before I Go to Sleep and Gone Girl, were by Highsmith disciples SJ Watson and Gillian Flynn ("I love her so much"), who has acknowledged the influence of the marital thriller Deep Water on her own portrait of a marriage.
The amnesia also came in handy on the page: her portrait of her mother reads, Spurling notes, "more like a biography of the Statue of Liberty than an actual human being".
Naomie Harris, "Moonlight" — As a crack-addled mother in an impoverished neighborhood of Miami, the English actress spent only three days on set, but her portrait of addiction, desperation, and broken love is indelible and unsparing.
Beside her tomb was her portrait on a stand, with what seemed to be a warm, welcoming smile.
Covarrubias was a striking woman even with her clothes on, and Edward Weston took her portrait more than once.
Benazir Bhutto, a past prime minister of Pakistan, looked regally down from her portrait on the wall; the busts of former British prime ministers Asquith, Heath, Gladstone and Macmillan, all former Oxford Union officials, peered magisterially at one another across the room.
