Portraits

Examples

• I believe I could make an independent fortune in a few years if I devoted myself exclusively to portraits, so great is the desire for good portraits in the different country towns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Weevle reverts from this intelligence to the Galaxy portraits implicated, and seems to know the originals, and to be known of them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He lived at the house of Benjamin West, and painted, and his portraits were shown at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Some time ago, says a correspondent of _La Nature_, I was walking around in a side show in which were exhibited mechanical portraits, when I was surprised to hear myself called: ‘Monsieur! William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• These sketches gave him a local reputation, and his friends were not surprised when at seventeen he left Lancaster to seek his fortune as a painter of portraits and miniatures in Philadelphia. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His efforts to paint historical pictures rather than portraits, and his share in paying off certain debts of his father’s, had made great inroads on the money he had saved. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It was in 1840 that portraits were first taken by the Daguerreotype process in this country. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It looks in at the windows and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Lord Hertford showed us a vast collection of gold and silver coins, portraits, drawings, curious snuff-boxes and watches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Very good; I see by these portraits that you take a strong interest in the fashionable great, sir? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This he found, and he wrote to his parents from Concord, New Hampshire, I have painted five portraits at $15 each, and have two more engaged and many talked of. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He is like the fine old Crichley portraits before the idiots came in. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The voices of our dead ancestors, whose portraits hang on the wall, and the eloquent words of Demosthenes and Cicero would be preserved to us. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To tell the truth, I am getting a little perplexed about John the Baptist and his portraits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He soon after married, and settled his household goods in New York, with $3,000 made by his portraits, as his capital. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The plan adopted by the best photographers is to have two cameras set at the requisite angle to each other, so that both pictures or portraits may be taken at the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Mrs Lammle, on a sofa by a table, invites Mr Twemlow's attention to a book of portraits in her hand. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That uneasiness haunts all his portraits. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Portraits of the twelve apostles in wood, and not a whole nose among 'em. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Both portraits are correct. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Sophronia, my dear, what portraits are you showing Twemlow? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Professors Draper and Morse make first Photographic Portraits. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• To me there is nothing tangible about these imaginary portraits, nothing that I can grasp and take a living interest in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The length of time required to produce an impression was, however, a serious obstacle to the use of the process, as originally invented, for taking portraits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Charcoal portraits came next, and the entire family hung in a row, looking as wild and crocky as if just evoked from a coalbin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We seek the originals of such portraits in real life only. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Do let the portraits of your uncle and aunt Phillips be placed in the gallery at Pemberley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I offered to sketch their portraits; and each, in turn, sat for a pencil outline. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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