Portrait

In this workshop, Cayetano Valenzuela and Sofía Luz Pérez will share their own practices and processes in making a portrait/self-portrait and ask participants to create a portrait or self-portrait.

In January, 2013, the National Portrait Gallery in London revealed that its curators had recently discovered that a portrait at Lambeth Palace formerly believed to have been a portrait of Catherine Parr in fact shows Catherine of Aragon.

One of the first works executed after his return was a portrait of the duc d'Orléans, whose death in a carriage accident just weeks after the completion of the portrait sent the nation into mourning and led to orders for additional copies of the portrait.

About that first dark tableau: Once the lights come up, it reveals a portrait session: Emily, painting her husband, in a pose reminiscent of Velasquez’s portrait of his assistant, an enslaved Moor.

Bizarrely, a large portrait of Putin was seen mounted in a corridor walked by Kim and Shoigu together, the Russian leader's face seen looming over the pair from a wall opposite a second portrait of the North Korean dictator.

Donna McGlynn's self-portrait won the Sutherland Independent Scottish Portrait Award in Fine Art 2023.

Many halls retain the Queen's portrait and are awaiting an official portrait of the King.

National Portrait Gallery, which is reopening in June, also shared portraits of monarchs throughout history from its collection to help inspire all those taking part and will showcase The Royally Big Portrait over the summer.

The King's contemporary effigy was designed by Steven Rosati, a Canadian portrait artist and member of the Portrait Society of Canada.

According to the National Troupe, the portrait of the President is the world’s largest painting portrait on canvas.

A portrait of Von Meckenem’s father or a self-portrait of the engraver himself late in life?

However, the National Portrait gallery offers a free talk about the life and work of Robert Burns, taking place in front of the portrait of him painted by Alexander Nasmyth.

An insightful portrait requires deep connection between painter and sitter and many artists have painted well-known friends or fellow artists, while others opted for a self-portrait.

Da Silva’s portrait of Cameron-Dalman hanging the National Portrait Gallery is a close-up composition of two artists lives; one of the dancer and choreographer and the other of someone who sees inside people for a living.

In November, he received an award at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery gala, which had commissioned his portrait for its collection.

It is more of a group portrait and a portrait of the times, brought off with exceptional intelligence and style.

The Darling Portrait Prize was established by the bequest of L Gordon Darling who, with his wife Marilyn, was primarily responsible for bringing the National Portrait Gallery into being.

There is another portrait with this article reputed to be his portrait as well.

This is a portrait within a portrait of soft focus pastels and family in an embrace both literally and figuratively thanks to the random covering of the title’s letters adding depth and space between her arms and chest.

Titled The Portrait, the work suggests that there is more to a portrait than a single, straightforward perspective.