Sentence examples for prosperous portrait from inspiring English sources

Mathew Brady, the Civil War photographer who gave up his prosperous portrait business to become a pioneer of photojournalism, spent his last days in a dingy rooming house, alone and penniless.

"This powerful, prosperous self-portrait is now coming through in a number of popular and domestically acclaimed movies and TV shows, most of which illustrate both an awareness of ongoing social issues and a growing faith in the state to resolve them," Zhang wrote.

The Fenimore show includes five of his nine known portraits of prosperous blacks, which he boldly signed and dated, despite the prevalent racism of his time.

Hudson, the son of a British ironmonger and a mixed-race Creole landlady, specialized in portraits of prosperous white and black families.

Demand for their product was so high that they were prosperous enough to commission portraits.

President Obama launched his final year in office with a valedictory State of the Union address Tuesday night that painted a portrait of a prosperous and secure America but warned of peril ahead if the country can't break the political logjam in Washington.

She also found a portrait of a prosperous-looking fellow for $200 and pretended he was the deceased whaler who had once owned her home — whom she promoted to captain.

Lee Eung-jun paints a chilling portrait of 2016 for readers in prosperous, ordered South Korea.

GUSTAV KLIMT was a great portrait painter whose subjects were the prosperous Viennese bourgeoisie at the start of the 20th century.

It opens with childhood snapshots in a prosperous Parisian home, school photographs and a 1926 portrait of him as an 18-year-old doing military service.

Written in the stones, then, is this portrait: of an ingenious island country, most prosperous when most open to the world, and with a mysterious concentration of eccentrics.