The statue was inspired by Belfast painter William Conor's depiction of mill workers, then known as 'shawlies'.
After all, since when did the buyer of a painting whose price later drops expect to be compensated by the painter?
She initially assumed autism, but found more clues in this portrait of Peter, by court painter William Kent, that hangs in Kensington Palace.
The art on the walls of his office, portraits of Airstream trailers by the painter John Baeder, is all personally owned, he takes care to note.
One highlight of the May auctions was the sale of ''Nature Morte au Melon Vert, '' a delicious still-life composition by the painter Paul Cezanne that grabbed the top price at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction.
Recently right wing campaigners were furious over some nude paintings of a Hindu goddess by prominent Indian painter, MF Hussain.
Oregon's Falcon Northwest Computer Systems offers custom work by an auto painter who hand-sprays 20 layers of paint in any design people want.
Dr Penny said he anticipated being asked why a UK national gallery was spending such large sums to acquire works by a foreign painter.
The Studio Museum provides the most interesting historical fare, including a wonderful pair of 1816 portraits of Haitian princes by the British painter Richard Evans.
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George and the Dragon, by a Russian painter named Viktor Safonkin.
My second all-green revelation was just as inapplicable: The Creeks, a large Hamptons estate currently owned by Ronald Perelman, was originally designed by the eccentric painter Alfonso Ossorio.
At his apartment, he pulled out some watercolors by Alberto Lescay, a Cuba-based painter, that were inspired by his music.
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For instance, he stocked Sears with landscapes by self-taught painter Streeter Blair.
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The specifics are not insignificant, but at its core the opera is about the competing forces of good (personified by Tosca and the freedom-loving painter Mario Cavaradossi) and evil (evoked by the villainous Baron Scarpia) writ large.
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Designed by a Swiss-German painter named Walter Jonas, they looked rational enough in plans and models.
It's not surprising that the high price went to a work by Mehta--a painter and sculptor so meticulous that he destroys many of his completed works.
In the 1960s, influenced by his great friend and fellow painter Francis Bacon, Freud began using heftier brushes and thick paint.
One of the dining rooms, painted blue with enormous swags and tassels, is inspired by the 19th-century Russian painter Leon Bakst.
The Holy Monastery of St Nicholas houses a single-nave church with a small dome, decorated by the 16th-century Cretan painter, Theophanes the Monk.
Among the star exhibits is a decadent portrait of the man himself, composed of fruit and vegetables by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, his court painter.
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Fleeing the Nazis, Richter was brought to lecture in New York in 1940 by Hilla Rebay, the German painter and collector who helped found the Guggenheim Museum.
In one of the most elaborate displays, the Gagosian Gallery added a carpeted side room to its booth to showcase a pair of new pencil drawings of trees by Zeng Fanzhi, a Chinese painter who is better known for his colorful portraits of men wearing white masks.
In 2006, after years of litigation, five paintings by Klimt once owned by Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer, two Austrian-Jewish collectors who were the painter's contemporaries, were returned to their heirs by Vienna's Belvedere museum.
Funds could not be raised for paintings by French artist Antoine Watteau, Venetian painter Francesco Guardi and an early 19th Century Italian classical tripod.
The estate of British painter Lucian Freud has bequeathed works by Corot and Degas to the nation, under the government's acceptance in lieu scheme.
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As court painter (and ultimately curator of the royal collections), he knew that no new painter could outshine the royal masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto and Rubens.
As they see it, that so many versions of Rogier's paintings were made by his studio, by his followers and by later copiers testifies to the painter's lasting importance.
For the last quarter of a century, Mr Cartier-Bresson eschewed photography, taking only the occasional snapshot of friends and family, and turning his attention to drawing. (He trained originally as a painter, his early work influenced by his friend, the surrealist artist Max Ernst.) He maintained that he scarcely wanted to discuss photography any more.
The bumper ratings were helped by the 17.2m people who saw former painter and decorator Matt Cardle win this year's X Factor on ITV1.
Let say the errant line painter - Bob - was directly employed by the Highways department of Cardiff Council, as he would presumably have been in the past.
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