" He called the portraitist Alex Katz "the Norman Rockwell of the intelligentsia.
Since Bacon's death in 1992, a new generation of British artists, notably Mr Hirst one of whose coloured dot paintings hangs over the bar and the portraitist Justin Mortimer, also represented here, have made this their own watering hole.
The exhibit then moves to Scotland, where its co-organizer, the National Galleries of Scotland, has provided a series of iconic 18th-century Scottish golf portraits, among them a full-length view of the youthful, tartan-clad Sir James and Sir Alexander MacDonald (from around 1749) by William Mosman and a portrait of William Inglis, Captain of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (circa 1790), by Sir Henry Raeburn, the most prominent portraitist of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Following more than a year of tests, x-rays and research, art historians have confirmed that the painting is in fact by the 17th century Spanish portraitist.
Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, wanted his portrait painted and since Islamic painting focused on calligraphy and miniatures, being painted by a top Venetian portraitist was the ultimate luxury.
Those eyes have helped make Mr. Testino one of the most high-profile fashion photographers of his generation and a sought-after portraitist whose clients include the British royal family.
The next year acclaimed French portraitist Denis Rouvre was their choice.
The actors in the drama are more wooden than they deserve, even the kaiser every pen-portraitist's dream.
Once again, this year's shortlist for the highest-profile art prize contains not one painter, let alone a portraitist.
Millais, the group's finest draftsman and all-round painter, later evolved into an assured if unimaginative society portraitist and a magnificent painter of autumnal landscapes.
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