Sentence examples for portrait designed from inspiring English sources

In 1746, at the height of his fame, he painted a portrait designed to be engraved as the frontispiece to his prints.

Unlike Oliver Stone, who invested Nixon (a memorable Anthony Hopkins) with Shakespearean heft but refused to sentimentalize him, this is a portrait designed to elicit a sniffy tear or two along with a few statuettes.

A specific type of Scottish picture is the "vendetta portrait", designed to keep alive the memory of an atrocity.

The portrait, designed by artist Jean de Marco, is one 23 marble reliefs that depict historical figures noted for their work in establishing the principals that underlie American law, according to the Architect of the Capitol, a U.S. government website.

The levade, the lifted front legs, was characteristic of royal equestrian portraits, designed to represent the sovereign mastering the great mount with a single hand on the reins.

For centuries, artists relied on patrons to keep them from starvation, which has left our art galleries with a surfeit of portraits designed to flatter the egos of wealthy men.

The show was accompanied not by a typical program or even the designer's thoughts: Instead, there were up-close images of bodies and hands, limpid clouds and medieval portraits designed, the folder said, to "show Phoebe Philo's artistic approach to Céline".

On the other hand, his royal portraits, designed to be seen across vast palace rooms, feature more strongly than his other works the bravura handling for which he is famous: "Velázquez's handling of paint is exceptionally free, and as one approaches Las Meninas there is a point at which the figures suddenly dissolve into smears and blobs of paint.

Its touch-screen interface is accessed via a vivid, high-resolution 3.5-inch OLED screen, and Nikon has added a "smart" portrait system designed to snap more flattering portraits.

For the portrait, Cotton designed the dress made by New York fashion designer Cynthia Rowley and created the sweet sensation.

The portrait was designed to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and had only been on display in the Chapter House for a few weeks before it was vandalised.