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The Portrait Artist

by cringeyjokesman March 11, 2023, 8:00 am

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Portrait of Eroshenko | Kyoto Journal

by HistoryBuff February 9, 2023, 8:55 am

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My Indian gf blocked a portrait of us on the dresser with a Ganesh trinket.

by cringeyjokesman January 31, 2023, 6:36 am

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TIL in the 1970s, artist Andy Warhol thought that his artwork wouldn’t go up in value after his death. In May of 2022, Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 Million – making it the most expensive American artwork ever sold at auction.

by whatilearned December 30, 2022, 11:51 pm

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TIL Marino Faliero, the only Doge of Venice in history to have been executed for a coup attempt, was erased from all official documentation and had his portrait in the Doge’s Palace painted over with a black cloth.

by whatilearned September 5, 2022, 8:53 am

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TIL FDR died in the middle of posing for this portrait.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 6:59 am

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TIL of Sijctghen, a 17th-century duck who laid over 100 eggs a year. In 1647, the Dutch Golden Age artist Aelbert Cuyp was commissioned to paint her portrait. Sijctghen died in October 1650, at the age of 23.

by whatilearned July 12, 2022, 4:20 pm

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TIL The film Dr. No features a replica of the painting ‘Portrait of the Duke of Wellington’ by Goya in the villian’s lair because the original had been stolen the year earlier. The replica was used for film promotion and like the original it was later stolen.

by whatilearned July 2, 2022, 12:16 pm

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TIL in 1918 photographer Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged 21,000 soldiers at Camp Sherman in Ohio into a “living portrait” of President Woodrow Wilson. Mole & Thomas created many other living portraits of other famous figures in the years which followed at different military bases around the US.

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 1:50 pm

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TIL: In 1977 Evel Knievel attacked the president of Fox Sports, Shelley Saltman, with a baseball bat. He was upset over a book that painted an unflattering portrait. Although convicted he served a minimal sentence; multi-million dollar judgment against estate never paid.

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 7:54 pm

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TIL that after the tragic suicide of socialite Dorothy Hale, Frida Kahlo was commissioned by Hale’s friend, Clare Booth Luce, to paint a likeness of Hale in remembrance. Instead of a beautiful portrait, however, Kahlo painted a sequence of Hale leaping to her death from her 16th story apartment.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 8:02 am

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TIL that the portrait of George Washington on the one-dollar bill comes from an unfinished portrait containing only his face, called the Athenaeum Portrait.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 10:41 pm

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