Sentence examples for portrait in front of from inspiring English sources

He said he could provide no photographs from those days, and declined to pose for a portrait in front of the vacant space.

For a souvenir, pop your head into the Old Time Portrait Studio on Central Pier (oldtimeportraitstudio.co.uk), where you can don Victorian swimwear and pose for a sepia portrait in front of a 1900 Blackpool back-drop.

There had been some talk about putting Saddam's statue or a portrait in front of it, and he'd got around this by inscribing some words of wisdom from Saddam on the statue itself, and including a sculpted facsimile of one of Saddam's arms and fists in the monument.

As we reported in February, the photographer Art Kane gathered 57 jazz greats for a group portrait in front of the town house at 17 East 126th Street in 1957, which became the subject of "A Great Day in Harlem," a 1995 documentary.

Qasem takes Shamsia's portrait in front of Nelson Mandela's portrait by Jason Coatney in Brooklyn.

Maestro Daniel Suk poses for a portrait in front of the Irvine Barclay Theatre on Friday.

Finally, by the beginning of 1888, van Gogh's Post-Impressionist style had crystallized, resulting in such masterpieces as Portrait of Père Tanguy and Self-Portrait in Front of an Easel, as well as in some landscapes of the Parisian suburbs.

When Ai moved to the US in 1981, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) was the first book he purchased and in 1987, he took a photographic self-portrait in front of Warhol's own self-portrait at the Museum of Modern Art, showing both artists adopting the same gesture.

On that Friday night, the cameras were out in force: couples on dates taking self-portraits in front of the Christmas tree sculpture and knots of office workers gathering, slightly inebriated, for year-end snapshot e-mail messages.

These paintings were done with a single hair brush and feature modeled life-size portraits in front of teeny-tiny imagery and text about their loves, interests and memories.

But unlike "Sex and the City" enthusiasts, who can tour that show's most celebrated locations via bus, "Girls" fans have to schlep out to the industrial hinterlands of Brooklyn to pose for Instagram self-portraits in front of the distinctive Grumpy logo (a crabby-looking coffee bean).