Franz Winterhaltr portraitist
was upon many a collector's list
Famed in his for haute culture
as 'selfies' still endure
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portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Martin Johnson Heade
loved orchids it was saidorchids
From hack portraitist he 'came good'
as in this art genre he stood
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
John Singleton Copley
distinguished portraitist with vivacity
Painting in a unique style
competed wih Reynolds for a while
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
John Michael Wright
portraitist of great delight
His faces ever a good likenesd
his aim great accuracy I guess
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portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Reginald Grenville Eves trained at the Slade
as a portraitist his living made
Famous faces..Hardy,Shacklet&Beerbohm
long before any internet zoom
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Nicholson 's spouse Mabel Pryde
too young with Spaish flu,she died
Yet like him a portraitist
as wife & mother she did persist
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Portraitist Henry Raeburn
speculated with fees he did earn
No nonsense was his style
&a golf fanatic for a while
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Scotland's Allan Ramsay
a portraitist in his day
Intense observation at its best
his painters eyes never at rest
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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
Categories:
portraitist, god, peace,
Form: Monoku
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/portrait-of-a-young-woman
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
US born John Turnbull
a portraitist so successful
The first graduate painter of Harvard
but perhaps tried a little too hard
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Nicholas Hilliard - a painter,slf taught
became pricipal portraitist at court
He loved to paint+ by passing note
accumulated the popular financial vote
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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-woman-in-a-pinned-hat-1435
Categories:
portraitist, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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