The most prominent display in the museum is a large portrait of Mr. Mizell looking solemnly downward.
Copley made quite a name for himself in the years leading up to the American Revolution by churning out striking portraits of Boston's most prominent citizens.
The wall text notes that prominent in each portrait "are the girls' preternaturally large, sparkling eyes, which stare out at the visitor with an uncanny, alien gaze".
There the reputation she gained as a hostess enabled her to receive an unprecedented number of political commissions for a woman and to gain a great many prominent sitters for portraits, including three presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield.
(Pictures of the men from whom the women inherited their parties are equally prominent, as are portraits of their sons, who have been waiting away their lives in exile).
In the most prominent spot was a portrait of Salah Shehadeh, a senior Hamas commander in Gaza, who was killed in 2002, along with his wife, daughter, and twelve others, nine of them children, when the Israeli Air Force bombed his apartment building.
Also on hand are portraits of prominent artists like Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
It's been said that a currency is doomed when its banknotes fail to feature portraits of prominent national figures.
