Building on his monumental intellectual biography of William Thomson, Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin (1989), co-authored with Norbert Wise, Smith here undertakes a general portrait of the institutional discourses that made a science of energy possible.
Then he undertook a series of portraits of tribal elders, medicine men, teachers, artists and people who were making a difference in the Sioux Nation.
Paul Marsan, né Paul Cardon, born in 1858: In 1887, the photographer, twenty-nine years old and tired of his studio, undertook a series of portraits taken at his subjects' homes, in a work or domestic setting that resembled them.
At age 27 he undertook a very ambitious project: the etched portraits of the 100 most famous men of his day.
By 1969 he was living in London and, to subsidize his days in the dusty stacks of the British Library, undertook portrait commissions in pastel ("using a method identical to that of oils").
Paul Eastwood, Stamford In 1845 John Snare, a Reading bookseller, acquired for £8 a portrait of Charles I undertaken shortly before he became king.
Kessler's overarching objective in undertaking this historical portrait is to dispel the widely promoted myth that American civil procedure has always embraced a distinctly accusatorial character.
Allan Ramsay studied in Sweden, London and Italy before basing himself in Edinburgh, where he established himself as a leading portrait painter to the Scottish nobility and he undertook portraits of many of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, including his friend the philosopher David Hume and the visiting Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Like his 2008 book, "Indignation," "Nemesis" is a modest undertaking: a small-scale portrait of an era and of an earnest young man who finds the unstoppable engine of history steamrolling over his life.
It started when Yeo undertook preparatory work for a commission of George W Bush only to have it cancelled; instead he produced a portrait from porn.
Students who have mastered basic painting skills undertake sustained projects, including portrait and plein air landscape work.
