Since 1856 the National Gallery also has had responsibility for the historical portraits housed in the National Portrait Gallery.
Yes, that was his mother, and, yes, she had died recently, and he had taken her portrait home from the house in Connecticut where she had lived.
As you can see, the portrait of housing choices in later retirement is expanding to include a growing variety of supportive housing/community options.
Once, several years ago, a client asked Ms. Stillman if she could paint a home portrait taking the house back in time.
Smith was an affluent former stockbroker whose portraits of houses in southern Spain so impressed his rich friends that they asked him to design houses like them.
Early on, she painted architectural portraits of houses in the West Vancouver, British Columbia, neighborhood where they lived.
It was full of wonderful things: Elizabethan portraits, dolls' houses, curiosities.
The New Yorker, October 16, 1948 P. 23 Talk story about Felix Kelly, a visiting British painter, who specializes in portraits of houses.
Painted on scrap lumber, sheet metal and most commonly on plywood, Mr. Sudduth's art often depicted everyday life in Alabama — portraits of houses, people, farm animals and his dog, Toto.
Two other portraits are housed by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
