portrait
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The painting’s full-length figures, like those in Old Master official portraits, are here translated into a contemporary vernacular, with a radiant Aline Charigot, Renoir’s future wife, in the arms of his friend Paul Lhote.
More somber is the 1964 scene in “Philadelphia,” of a row house door whose window displays a portrait of John F. Kennedy, assassinated just a year before.
It comes a day after the Prince and Princess of Wales released a new family portrait which featured on their Christmas card this year.
From BBC
A portrait of George Washington that hung in the wood-paneled study was commissioned by Benjamin Franklin.
The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.
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