Sentence examples for portrait acquired from inspiring English sources

The Chandos portrait, named after a previous owner, was the first portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 1856.

The portrait, acquired by the museum, is joined by 13 additional paintings of young men by Mr. Wiley, along with 11 historic papercuts and textile works he selected from the museum's collection.

The Norman Conquest of 1066 made little change in the mint system or in the coinage (though the facing portrait acquired great popularity); the pre-Conquest moneyers stayed in office and struck coins for William I.

IN the Oscar Wilde novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a man remains forever young while his painted portrait acquires the blemishes of his increasingly dissipated life.

The paintings -- not unlike those in a current show of Qing portraits acquired from a private collector at the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington -- are monumental in size to stress the godlike authority of their sitters.

Stubbs became a master in arranging horses in a composition that moved beyond the mere portrait to acquire the status of high art.

Those with the portrait of Maria Theresa acquired wide popularity on either side of the Red Sea.

Picasso's early portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto, acquired by Andrew Lloyd Webber, a composer of musicals, in 1995 for £18.1m, sold to an Asian bidder on the telephone for a hammer price of £31m, just above its low estimate.

In the first rooms, the viewer encounters Caesar and other leading protagonists of his age — Cicero, Crassus, Lepidus — in the form of portrait busts, which acquired new levels of expressiveness during this period.

Collectively, this initial portrait of an acquired transcriptome within a dynamic and ecologically successful ciliate highlights the remarkable cellular and metabolic chimerism of this system.

When the Metropolitan acquired the portrait in 1949 as part of a bequest, it was catalogued as a Velazquez but later downgraded.