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Using height measurements supplied by the Oxford Materials Characterisation Service, the study's author determined that the damaged central portrait region varied in height by approximately 750 micrometers, equivalent to 0.75 millimeters.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

His 1979 portrait of the angelic-looking Boyd Fortin, for instance, holding an enormous, disemboweled rattlesnake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Avedon also focused extensively on the American West, which served as the setting for his 1985 portrait series of coal miners, oil field workers, ranchers, drifters and ordinary people that he considered his masterwork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Allan Gindi, Frieda Cohen...and was that Rabbi Maimon? Because he looks very little like his portrait out in the front lobby, let me tell you.”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

The Kimbell has a generous 17 Nadar portraits in its exhibition; they are characterized by their plain backdrops and the lack of tacky props other portraitists used.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

This doesn’t just protect their delicate surfaces, it also reflects our own faces back at us, making us a part of these distorted portraits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Families had hired bands, set up sprawling arrays of tents and decorated chapels with portraits of their late loved ones inside.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

In Laayoune, the territory's largest city, footage showed people celebrating, waving Moroccan flags and displaying portraits of King Mohammed VI.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Who a person becomes later in life, how he lives, how he dies, clouds people’s memories of him, spinning and skewing—distorting—their portraits of him as a child.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman