portrait painters

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portrait painters

Frida Kahlo

self-portrait artist
"Describes the life and work of Frida Kahlo"--Provided by publisher.

The very picture of you

a novel
2011
Gabriella Graham is a successful portrait artist in London. She is asked by her sister to paint her fianc? Nate. As Gabriella continues to paint, she has conflicted feelings about the subjects she is painting.

Painting the century

101 portrait masterpieces, 1900-2000
2001
A collection of 101 portraits of historical figures which were painted by various artists during the twentieth century.

Burnt sienna

2000
Painter Chase Malone is commissioned to paint Sienna, the beautiful wife of a powerful international arms dealer who had his last three wives murdered right after their portraits were completed.

The serpent in the garden

a novel
2005
In the summer of 1765, portrait painter Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint the wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his fiance, Sabine Mercer, but when Bentnick accuses Joshua of theft, Joshua must find a way to clear his name and salvage his reputation.

The portrait

2005
Celebrated portraitist Henry MacAlpine, retired from the London art scene to an island off the coast of France, accepts a commission in the early 1900s to paint his one-time friend and mentor William Nasmyth, a powerful art critic, but as the session progresses it becomes clear that MacAlpine's feelings toward his subject fall far short of gratitude.

Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun

the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution
2005
Explores the life of controversial French artist Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, and discusses her role as the official portraitist of Marie-Antoinette, her exile, her extensive travels, and the impact her work had on the art of her time.

Chuck Close

life
2010

Chuck Close, up close

1998
A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.

Chuck Close, up close

2000
A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.
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