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	Portrait miniature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portrait miniatures began to flourish in 16th-century Europe and the art was practiced during the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Unfinished portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657.
		His portraits are generally on ivory, although occasionally he worked on paper or vellum, and he produced a great many full-length pencil drawings on paper, in which he slightly tinted the faces and hands, and these he called "stayned drawings".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portrait_miniature (1505 words)

	Unfinished Portrait -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Unfinished Portrait of (32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the great depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)) Franklin Delano Roosevelt refers to a (Any likeness of a person) portrait being drawn of him at the time of his death.
		Later that day the 32nd (The person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government) President of the United States passed away, and Elizabeth Shoumatoff never did finish her portrait of the man leaving the world with an unfinished portrait, which many consider to be mysterious and quite eerie.
		The portrait hangs at Roosevelt's former health and relaxation retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, known as the (additional info and facts about Little White House) Little White House.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/Un/Unfinished_Portrait.htm (202 words)

	Unfinished Portrait : Reviews, Ratings, Prices, Free Shipping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Bereft of the three people she has held most dear - her mother, her husband and her daughter - Celia is on the verge of suicide.
		Then one night on an exotic island she meets Larraby, a successful portrait painter, and through a long night of talk reveals how she is afraid to commit herself to a second chance of happiness with another person, yet is not brave enough to face life alone.
		"Unfinished Protrait" will be useful reading for anyone interested not only in Agatha Christie's writing but also in her life.
	www.medfools.com /shop/product/0515091715/Unfinished_Portrait.html (480 words)

	John Singleton Copley--worksheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The finished portrait from the Cleveland Museum of Art shows a man that is aware of the viewer, but any indication of his feelings or his personality is entirely missing.
		This process of portrait painting is visible in the MAG's unfinished portrait of Nathaniel Hurd in which the face is almost completely painted while the clothing and background remain very sketchy (Rebora, p.
		After the portraits are complete, have the students hang up their portraits and explain why they depicted the sitter the way they did.
	mag.rochester.edu /learn/teacherServices/onlineResources/copley/JohnSingletonCopley.html (1542 words)

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		The portrait of the President which Elizabeth Shoumatoff was painting at the moment of his passing is a true and honest portrait.
		There is symbolism, perhaps, in the fact that as the portrait was unfinished, so was the life of the man portrayed.
		All the important things were there, the eyes, the mouth, the shape of the head, the set of the shoulders, the color of the skin which in the few minutes before his death had strangely turned from an ashen pallor to a semblance of ruddy health.
	www.postpoliosupport.com /post-polio_portrait.htm (659 words)

	Unfinished Portrait of a Womant
		The main clue in the John / Sarah Poe image is that the garment worn by the woman is of a style reportedly from the 1880s, not the 1850s when the original image would have been made (John Poe died in 1859 and Sarah in 1861).
		This unfinished portrait provides further evidence that the studio was in the habit of adding contemporary details to earlier pictures.
		The charcoal lines added to the torso in this unfinished work suggest that the "artist" planned to include a pleated garment (perhaps like the one Sarah wears in the John Poe/Sarah Threet picture), which is different from the clothing worn by the woman.
	www.mindspring.com /~poefamily5/UnfinishedPortrait.htm (222 words)

	Daniel Webster Image Gallery
		Since it is a modern portrait, it does not have the historical value of portraits painted during Webster's lifetime.
		This portrait, although unfinished, is a beautiful depiction of Webster as a young man, fresh from his victory in the Dartmouth College Case.
		This undated portrait by John Pope is a glorious portrayal of Webster as he appeared in his later adult life, a prominent Congressman and Secretary of State.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~dwebster/gallery.html (786 words)

	www.spec.com.au : Content FrontPage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		HAMILTON Art Gallery director, Daniel McOwan, with the unfinished portrait by Nora Heysen, which remained hidden on the back of another work until it was reframed last year.
		Comparing the unfinished work with similar ones, it is likely to have been painted in the early to mid-1930s.
		Born in Hahndorf, SA, Nora Heysen won the Archibald prize in 1938 with a controversial portrait of the wife of the Netherlands consul, Madame Elink Schuurman.
	www.spec.com.au /display.asp?id=3331 (518 words)

	Artist's Biographies
		In his portrait I have represented him in the costume precisely in which he was dressed when he stood for it, with his shield on his arm and his staff (insignia of off ice) in his left hand.
		The draftsmanship of the unfinished University Museum version (a similar equestrian, illustration 1b) is unusually tight and accomplished for 1836, and Keokuk's furrowed face is in marked contrast to his impassive expression in the original portrait.
		Several unfinished portraits in the Pawnee series show the rapid oil strokes that Catlin used to block in figure and costume at the initial sitting, and what color and detail remained to be filled in after he returned to St. Louis.
	iris.lib.virginia.edu /dlps_QA_Review/pro_catlinmuseum/database/Catlin_Tab_Delimited.txt (17881 words)

	Portrait Society of America, Inc. - Portrait Society, Portrait Artists, Portrait Art, Portrait Painting
		The seventh annual The Art of the Portrait conference brought together over 700 artists for a weekend of learning from the masters in the field of fine art portraiture and figurative works.
		The event at the Australian Embassy gallery was scheduled to coincide with The Art of the Portrait conference and on Sunday afternoon attendees were treated to lunch, a sampling of Australian wines and cheese, and a welcome by Marc Pachter, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.
		The Portrait Society of America is pleased to announce the eighth annual conference to be held May 4-7, 2006 in downtown Dallas, Texas at the beautiful Wyndham Anatole.
	www.portraitsociety.com (587 words)

	Portrait Battle Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		'Portrait Battle' is an imaginative conception of the friendship between Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin as they planned portraits of each other in easy company at their outdoor cafe.
		In the detail at left of the unfinished Portrait Battle, the figures of Gauguin and his wife Mette seem ethereal as the sky and sea beyond them.
		Portrait Battle Study was exhibited at a group exhibition at the Orensanz Foundation in NYC, NY December 1999-January 2000
	home.gci.net /~donaldricker/portbats.htm (244 words)

	cover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It’s not your traditional portrait, but it is what Santa Barbara artist Hank Pitcher came up with when commissioned to paint a likeness of his friend and art dealer, Frank Goss, and it works.
		And they are here in spades, in the form of 25 small portraits by Taos artist Jack Smith and one big, magnificent, contemporary masterpiece by John Nava of Ojai, the artist responsible for the extraordinary tapestry procession that encircles the interior of the new cathedral in downtown Los Angeles.
		In return, the portrait, done in Perko’s characteristic and elegant deco-influenced style, picks up on the blue shirt that Mason used to wear, and the white scarf, and his hat.
	www.independent.com /cover/Cover938.htm (1896 words)

	Bulletin 14, Andrea Sacchi's Portrait of a Cardinal by Ann Sutherland Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Research is handicapped by the absence of the identifying marks common to portraits of this kind, namely inscriptions on the papers held by the sitter and a coat of arms on the back of the chair, both clearly visible in Sacchi's portrait of Cardinal Angelo Giori (fig.
		Their absence in the Ottawa portrait, together with the sketchy appearance of most of the surface, suggests that the picture is unfinished, as does comparison with Sacchi's portrait of Monsignore Clemente Merlini in the Borghese Gallery (fig.
		The latter seems, in fact, to have served as a modello for the former, and as the Ottawa portrait is unfinished, it might well have remained in the artist's studio and been available for such use.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /bulletin/num14/harris1.html (1227 words)

	Warm Springs : Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		At the time he was sitting for a portrait; the Unfinished Portrait, his wheelchair, ship models, sea paintings, Fala's dog chain, and gifts sent him by various citizens are preserved as he last saw them.
		Roosevelt wanted a place to make his records of the past available "for the use of men and women in the future." The unfinished portrait that Elizabeth Shoumatoff was painting on the day the president died is on display here.
		The president's ashen pallor and his tired, drawn face are captured in the unfinished portrait, revealing the stress FDR felt at the end of the most destructive war in history.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=1832&catID=1832010029 (593 words)

	Portraits of Patriots - About Us - The finest presidential engraving ever done
		This 22x28" portrait is printed on acid free archival stock with a 3" embossed border like the original matted and framed in stately mahogany.
		Dave Elswick of KARN radio in Little Rock, Arkansas started a project to raise funds to put a George Washington portrait in all of the 80 schools in the Little Rock School District. This effort is on going, and to date, 10 high schools have a portrait of George Washington hanging proudly.
		Presentations of this magnificent portrait have been made throughout the country and in England at Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of George Washington.
	www.portraits-patriots.qpg.com /page2.html (515 words)

	Unfinished Portrait of a Complicated Man / Rustin a puzzle in `Civil Sex'
		Unfinished Portrait of a Complicated Man / Rustin a puzzle in `Civil Sex'
		In ``Civil Sex,'' a stimulating, good-humored and sometimes diffuse portrait of the fl civil rights activist at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Rustin emerges in a prismatic whir written and directed by Brian Freeman.
		Perhaps inevitably, ``Civil Sex'' remains an unfinished portrait of a complicated man. ``If only we could leave him there,'' Baldwin says of Rustin's hours in the spotlight.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/21/DD53161.DTL&type=printable (632 words)

	Truman Presidential Museum and Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Rembrandt Peale's "porthole" portrait of George Washington; a likeness of Thomas Jefferson done for John Adams as a token of their friendship; an in situ depiction of Zachary Taylor during the Mexican War, that was used to promote his presidential candidacy; one of the last photographic images of Abraham Lincoln, by Alexander Gardner;
		Yet another instance of painterly virtuosity is the Gallery's portrait of John Tyler, where artist George P A. Healy's masterful rendering of skin tone invested Tyler's face and one visible hand with a palpability that is little short of extraordinary.
		Some ten years ago, a reporter writing on the presidential portrait tradition suggested that the formal likeness may have lost much of its relevance in an age inundated by instant photographic and video images that seemed to capture "the Chief Executive in virtually every mood and every activity." In many senses that may be true.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa537.htm (2930 words)

	Art - The Baltic Times- NEWS FROM ESTONIA,LATVIA AND LITHUANIA
		Okas’ eyes are glazed over with age, his hair is thin, but he exudes the same sense of self-assurance he carried at age 20.
		“Unfinished Painting” – the title of Okas’ most recent work – which he assures the public will not be his last, is fitting, as is the symbolic choice of words.
		His latest work, “Unfinished Painting,” is a symbolic self-portrait.
	www.baltictimes.com /art.php?art_id=13816 (934 words)

	Georgia State Historic Sites ~ FDR's Little White House
		Shoumatoff’s "Unfinished Portrait" became a focal point of the tour.
		Finding herself not able to continue with the Unfinished Portrait, Elizabeth Shoumatoff began a new painting in the summer of 1945.
		While in the area, guests are encouraged to visit the nearby historic campus of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation and the hydrotherapy springs and pools.
	fdr-littlewhitehouse.org /03_information/03_a.html (849 words)

	Mystic Visions Discussion Forums: Introductions
		It is with slightly trembling hands that I life the palette, blend the colors, and envision the portrait of my future.
		It is an unfinished work that holds my appraising eye, a portrait of, ‘The Writer’.
		In the final analysis, I realize that leaving the portrait unfinished would be the worst failure.
	www.aksworld.com /cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi?pg=next&topic=101&page=421 (917 words)

	19th Century (A-C)
		Unfinished, it was kept by the artist until after his death, at which time it was given to the sitter.
		This unfinished portrait of the artist’s friend, the wood engraver Alfred Mumford Lindsay, is one of the Museum’s five Anshutz works.
		It may have been left unfinished because Anshutz was not pleased with it, as his widow indicated in a letter to Lindsay after Anshutz’s death.
	www.delart.org /damdocent/19thac.html (3380 words)

	Martha Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He painted it in 1796, together with a similarly unfinished portrait of her husband, and kept the two paintings until his death.
		She was somewhat uncomfortable in her role, describing herself as "an old-fashioned Virginia housekeeper." But she had acted as her husband's mainstay during the Revolutionary War and invested the position of first lady with great dignity.
		Rembrandt Peale based this portrait on a 1795 original painted by his father, Charles Willson Peale.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/hall2/marthas.htm (127 words)

	Bull's Portrait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Little did we know that it would result in a commission for a portrait on the occasion of my 25th employment anniversary with Goodway Technologies.
		Our first obstacle to overcome was the thought of a traditional portrait with a serious looking person simply sitting in a chair or standing at attention.
		The unfinished portrait was made available for my retirement party.
	www.bullworks.net /virtual/retire/portrait.htm (247 words)

	Books: Half Nelson (The Boston Phoenix . 04-24-00)
		Not a biography (as he wrote this book, Bellow himself was having his life written by James Atlas) but a portrait.
		The prose, at least through the portrait section, is muscular, funny, and alive.
		In this regard, as in the man's ideas, Ravelstein is not a full-dress portrait.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-24-00/boston_books_1.html (830 words)

	The unfinished portrait - The Washington Times: Commentary - February 21, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Brilliant as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were in their diametrically opposed ways, both recognized what they and the country most needed and neither could provide: a balance wheel, a well of judgment to contain their rippling ideas.
		The portrait of Washington that once hanged in every American classroom was unfinished, like the Republic itself — a work in progress.
		The Constitution we now revere as the political equivalent of Scripture was only a sketchy outline in Washington's time; he would have to fill it in by his acts.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20050220-083918-3447r.htm (786 words)

	Unfinished Portrait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FDR was being served lunch when he stated "I have a terrible headache" and then became unable to breathe.
		Later that day the 32nd President of the United States passed away, and Elizabeth Shoumatoff never did finish her portrait of the man, leaving the world with an unfinished portrait, which many consider to be mysterious and quite eerie.
		This page was last modified 23:42, 10 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unfinished_Portrait (142 words)

	Elan Article - Philomont Fine Portraiture Artist Timothy J. Chambers
		When he wasn't painting, Tim was the “chore boy.” He laughs easily as he describes feeding Egeli's chickens and “handling whatever else needed to be done.” Then he glances at the unfinished portrait of the young girl in the studio and pauses as if shifting gears, his tone growing more serious and thoughtful.
		The skill is vital to capturing the essence of their personalities – whether the sitter is a young child, a teenager or an adult.
		Once the portrait and any necessary adjustments are completed, Tim personally delivers the framed portrait to the client's home or office for a formal unveiling.
	www.timothychambers.com /pages/articles/Article.elan.March2003.background.htm (1087 words)

	Portraits Both Inside and Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		She knows that one of the reasons she feels this way is sleeping in the bed behind her, still and silent, never changing, never growing old.
		His portrait is finished, but only on the exterior.
		Joyce is unfinished and he loves that about her, and he knows he has to make do with being unfinished on the inside and allowing her to help mold and shape his character and soul.
	www.idir.net /~lwilson/portrait.html (727 words)

	The Tribune - Windows - Mind games
		The work is unfinished, but the student is charmed, nonetheless.
		The unfinished portrait is still on his studio wall.
		X-rays of the painting and close comparison with portraits of Leonardo suggest that this may indeed be true.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010728/windows/mind.htm (623 words)

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