Portraitist Poems - Poems about Portraitist

Clerihew Winterhlter

...Franz Winterhaltr portraitist
was upon many a collector's list
Famed in his for haute culture
as 'selfies' still endure...

Clerihew Sandys

...Frederick Sandys a pre-raphaelite
brothe to Emma portraitist of delight
Then sibling art togetherness did bring
lost & remote now as digital apps are 'the' thing...

Clerihew Heade

...Martin Johnson Heade
loved orchids it was saidorchids
From hack portraitist he 'came good'
as in this art genre he stood...

Clerihew Copley

...John Singleton Copley
distinguished portraitist with vivacity
Painting in a unique style
competed wih Reynolds for a while...

Clerihew Annigoni

...In Italian Pietro Annigoni
a portraitist 'differente' we do see
Updated renaissance is seen
see for example that of our late Queen*

*Elizabeth II 1926-2022...

Clerihew Wright

...John Michael Wright
portraitist of great delight
His faces ever a good likenesd
his aim great accuracy I guess...

Clerihew Eves

...Reginald Grenville Eves trained at the Slade
as a portraitist his living made
Famous faces..Hardy,Shacklet&Beerbohm
long before any internet zoom...

Clerihew Pryde

...Nicholson 's spouse Mabel Pryde
too young with Spaish flu,she died
Yet like him a portraitist 
as wife & mother she did persist...

Clerihew Raeburn

...Portraitist Henry Raeburn
speculated with fees he did earn
No nonsense was his style
&a golf fanatic for a while...

Clerihew Ramsay

...Scotland's Allan Ramsay
a portraitist in his day
Intense observation at its best
his painters eyes never at rest...

True Peace

...the lone portraitist and author of peace~~the master artist, God

16 syllables	


June 30, 2022
entered in the Art of Peace Monoku Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless...

Clerihew Lebrun

...Eliabeth Vigee-Lebrun
penned  autobiography ,read by some
Portraitist * of the fasionable,she met
including one Marie-Antoinette 

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/louise-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun/port...

Clerihew Turnbull

...US born John Turnbull
a portraitist so successful
The first graduate painter of Harvard
but perhaps tried a little too hard...

Clerihew Hilliard

...Nicholas Hilliard - a painter,slf taught
became pricipal portraitist at court
He loved to paint+ by passing note
accumulated the popular financial vote...

Clerihew Weyden

...Brussels Roger van der Weyden
the greatest in his day,a Belgian
as a portraitist*  never to fail
specialist of great detail

*https://www.wikiart.org/en/rogier-van-der-weyden/portrait-of-a-young...

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