portrait
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Nine-year-old Sebastian paints a portrait of his family home, unable to comprehend that it no longer exists after the powerful quake that shattered western Colombia this week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
A sketchbook from Whistler’s teenage years in St. Petersburg, Russia—where his father worked as an engineer—is an unexpected treasure in the show, and includes sensitive portrait sketches that establish Whistler’s skills as a draftsman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
I had just finished a portrait of Dorothy Dandridge, and he bought it right on the spot, making it my first commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Published between 1983 and 2000, Skidelsky’s three-volume biography brilliantly presented a full portrait of Keynes as a thinker, a policymaker and, most engagingly, a man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Too, in his current state, Quinzy hardly resembled the stout, silver-haired Edward Ashton who gazed forbiddingly from the portrait that hung not ten feet away.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
During the day, hunger strikers lie on mattresses under tarpaulins, with portraits of BR Ambedkar and freedom fighters behind them.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
I scroll through the portraits he’d emailed me: two women laughing, a family smiling, and my personal favorite, a pop-artish rendering of Gigi Hadid.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
And both Mr. Ralph, as Mia’s husband, Barry, who is most seduced by dreams of tech millions, and Mr. Tippett as Paul give fine portraits of men on the cusp of middle-aged anxiety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
At the Zurbatiyah crossing, large fans sprayed mist to cool the heat as pilgrims passed portraits of Khamenei, his son and successor Mujtaba, and other slain commanders from Iran's so-called "axis of resistance."
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The three of them sat on the car’s roof in order, as they had in all the family portraits that had once hung in the stairwell and were now reduced to ash.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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