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  2. Paintings of Children (Van Gogh series) - Wikipedia

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    40.5 cm × 32.5 cm (15.9 in × 12.8 in) Location. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh enjoyed making Paintings of Children. He once said that it's the only thing that "excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else." Painting children, in particular represented rebirth and the infinite.

  3. Henrietta Johnston - Wikipedia

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    Henrietta Johnston. Henrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (c. 1674 [1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies, [2] and is the first ...

  4. Berta Hansson - Wikipedia

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    Berta Elisabet Hansson (1910–1994) was a Swedish artist and educator. She is remembered as one of the country's most prominent Expressionists, especially for her depictions of children. After first working as a schoolteacher, in 1940 she attended Otte Sköld [ sv] 's art school and started to paint. Impressed by her work, the writer and ...

  5. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mummy portrait of a young woman, Antinoöpolis, Middle Egypt, 2nd century, Louvre, Paris. This heavily gilt portrait was found in Antinoöpolis in winter 1905/06 by French Archaeologist Alfred Gayet and sold to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1907. Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden ...

  6. Portrait painting - Wikipedia

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    Self-portrait of Nicolas Régnier painting a portrait of Vincenzo Giustiniani, 1623–24, Fogg Art Museum. Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public ...

  7. Hand-in-waistcoat - Wikipedia

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    The hand-in-waistcoat (also referred to as hand-inside-vest, hand-in-jacket, hand-held-in, or hidden hand) is a gesture commonly found in portraiture during the 18th and 19th centuries. The pose appeared by the 1750s to indicate leadership in a calm and firm manner, or allegiance to Freemasonry. The pose is most often associated with Napoleon ...

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