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The hair parted in the middle, and brought down low at the sides of the forehead, was peculiarly affected by the Venetian gentlemen of the day, and this style seems to have particularly pleased Giorgione, who introduces it in many other pictures besides portraits. The oval of the face, which is strongly lighted, is also characteristic.
'Bon jour', Monsieur Arlequin; 'bon jour', Monsieur Pantalon: such was the manner in which the French used to address the actors who personified those characters on the stage. My Apprenticeship in Paris Portraits Oddities All Sorts of Things
We then went to King's College, a large quadrangular edifice, including the chapel, built of granite. The examination hall contains a collection of the portraits of the old Scottish kings and the early principals of the college, a Bishop Elphinstone, the founder, being among them.
"The passport discloses that," answered Roland; "he desired only a decent funeral." "Ah!" said the mayor, taking out the passport, "an English traveller; name Roland Sefton; and these letters, and these portraits they will be enough for identification." "He said he had no friends or family in England," pursued Roland, "and there is no address among his letters. He told me he came from India."
But though that other dusty, squalid, cobwebbed scene quite vanished, and along with it the two figures, old and young, grim and childish, of whose portraits it had been the framework, still there were features in the old, oaken-panelled chamber that seemed to belong rather to his dream.
"What is the exact meaning of the term, 'professional beauty'?" Thelma had asked Beau Lovelace on one occasion. "I suppose it is some very poor beautiful woman, who takes money for showing herself to the public, and having her portraits sold in the shops? And who is it that pays her?" Lovelace broke into a laugh.
Knowing that the portraits stood for the same youth, Arthur could trace a resemblance in the separate features, but in the ensemble there was no likeness. "The young fellow went from college to Africa," said Curran, "where he explored the wilderness for two years. This photograph was taken on his return from an expedition.
Here was certainly an opportunity to know what Vandyke is. I should call him a true court painter a master of splendid conventionalities, whose portraits of kings are the most powerful arguments for the divine right I know of. The queen's audience chamber is hung with tapestry representing scenes from the book of Esther. This tapestry made a very great impression upon me.
You do not here have your photograph taken; you have, it seems, your "portrait" made. "Home portraiture" is ingratiatingly suggested on lettered cards, and, further, you are invited to indulge in "art posing in photographs." The "studios" of the photographers display about an equal number of portraits of children and dogs.
My head-dress cost me nothing, because I did my hair myself, and most of the time I wore a muslin cap on my head, as may be seen from my portraits. One of my favourite distractions was going to the play, and I can vow that so many talented actors were on the Paris stage that many of them have had no successors.
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