Sentence examples for set a portrait from inspiring English sources

It was not until Hans Memling (c. 1435 1494), a pupil of van der Weyden, that a Netherlandish artist set a portrait against an exterior or landscape.

A photographic diptych by Sue Williamson sets a portrait of an AIDS patient, wasted by illness, beside a shot of antigovernment graffiti splashed across the walls of a Cape Town underpass.

If Storrier takes out the main prize, announced on 18 July, it will set a precedent for a portrait taking both the Packing Room and Archibald prizes.

"I think if I had set up a portrait studio people would have been intimidated to pose," Mr. Enriquez said.

He set up a portrait studio where he photographed celebrities like Marc Chagall.

In a move that reflects the participatory nature not just of African photography, but art on the international contemporary art circuit, Mr. Deschamps has set up a portrait studio in the gallery where you can have your picture taken.

Later in life, she recalled a moment when her mother had set out a portrait of Frieda as a surprise for her father, but he came back from work with a migraine and didn't notice the picture.

Unable to find an English printer willing to set up A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man for book publication, Weaver published it herself, having the sheets printed in the United States, where it was also published, on Dec. 29, 1916, by B.W. Huebsch, in advance of the English Egoist Press edition.

After the author finally tracked down Changoleón, we tried to set up a portrait shoot, but the Monkey-lion was nowhere to be found.

They used plastic knives to cut away at the air in their living room, bare except for the red two-piece furniture set, a small television and a portrait of a sunset.

He returned to Harlem the following year, setting up a portrait studio at a music conservatory that his sister had founded in 1911.