She only ever posed for one photographic portrait: aged thirty-nine, sitssits, long-chinned and large-nosed, with a forced simper on her face.
As the portrait ages, but Dorian does not, he becomes "a face without a heart", seeking sensation and pleasure at any cost.
His earliest known attempts at miniature painting were made in 1560, and his talent is obvious in Self Portrait Aged 13 and Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset.
(Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray turns the idea on its head: while the living man doesn't change, his portrait ages horribly).
The story of a man who remains eternally young while his portrait ages provided the framework for Wilde's whimsical but vicious depiction of the fin de siècle.
The story of the beautiful young man whose portrait ages and becomes hideous while he remains unblemished by the vicious life he lives, until finally he destroys it, thereby killing himself, continues to haunt the 21st-century imagination.
Brandi Twilley, Self Portrait Age 10 14″ by 18″ oil on linen, 2015 Courtesy of the artist.
And from his restless rest, Chaudhuri assembles a moving portrait of aging parents and a son whose troubles mark them, just as their decline marks him.
By the time Perry polishes up his portrait, this aging and exhausted skin merchant resembles an honorable but fatally flawed king who stands to lose his entire realm because of a tragic error in judgment.
Lauded for its humanistic portrait of aging, it succeeded financially and made Art Carney of TV's "The Honeymooners" a movie star and best actor Oscar winner.
