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However, Duerer had one sitter who was perhaps the most beautiful of all the sons of men, whose features combined in an equal measure nobleness of character, intellectual intensity and physical beauty; and, finding him also most patient and accessible, he painted him frequently.
Rembrandt said something to the effect that he rather liked to have some one watch him when he worked; it depended, of course, on who it was and asked the sitter to elevate his chin a little and not look so cross. Next day Saskia came again to watch the transfer of the good uncle's features to canvas.
Batterbury; his mahogany face actually getting white with alarm. "Stop! Don't talk in that dreadfully unprincipled manner don't, I implore, I insist! You have plenty of friends you have me, and your sister. Take to portrait-painting think of your family, and take to portrait-painting!" "Where am I to get a sitter? I inquired, with a gloomy shake of the head. "Me," said Mr.
The true biographer loves uncritically every detail that has to do with his subject, as a portrait-painter loves every detail that has to do with the appearance of his sitter. The best portraits, whether in biography which is nothing if it is not portraiture or in painting, are those in which the interpreter has been in a wholly receptive mood.
Nina, you've been the making of me, you're the best sitter in the world, and while I look at my picture I begin to think you're the handsomest. I mustn't touch it again. Stanmore, what do you think?"
I left him still harping on that string, and suffering, I believe, the only serious attack of mental distress that had ever affected him in the whole course of his life. Behold me, then, now starting afresh in the world, in the character of a portrait-painter; with the payment of my remuneration from my first sitter depending whimsically on the life of my grandmother.
He sometimes was proud of his skill, and at others he was unreasonably vexed that this picture should be so much better than that of Mr. Hubbard promised to be. He had been talking this morning half-absently, and merely for the sake of keeping his sitter interested.
"What do you think is a good reason for sticking on side?" I asked. "Ward can't do anything; you are a blue already, and I shall probably get my racquet blue, but of course that's got nothing to do with it." "Then I shouldn't say anything about it," I answered, and putting on my coat I went into my sitter.
I have watched Smee, Esq., R.A., flattering and fawning, and at the same time boasting and swaggering, poor fellow, in order to secure a sitter. I have listened to a Manchester magnate talking about fine arts before one of J. J.'s pictures, assuming the airs of a painter, and laying down the most absurd laws respecting the art.
Galton's, the image of each new sitter brings out but the more clearly the central features of the race; when once youth has flown, each new impression only deepens the sense of nationality and the desire of native places.
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