"We have a healthy art market in London, " says portrait painter Emma Sergeant.
Among the most notable Italian artists in the show, Michele Gordigiani was one of Fabbri's Florentine teachers, and the official portrait painter of the House of Savoy.
She initially assumed autism, but found more clues in this portrait of Peter, by court painter William Kent, that hangs in Kensington Palace.
Its chief patron and Murillo's was Justino de Neve (1625-85), canon of Seville Cathedral, and subject of the painter's superb 1665 portrait.
It is considered a self-portrait and along with the painter's red signature at right, the sanguine "XX" insignia at far left, and the painting's prospective date suggests Ensor's intent to cast himself as the true prophet of the art to come.
And he actually became a painter in the Vatican and painted a portrait of Pope Pius the IX.
Her mother, the painter Elaine Fasula, did a beautiful portrait of her, and I've placed it above the stairway to the basement.
Made around the time Rembrandt turned sixty, in 1666, the view of the painter at work complements the great 1658 self-portrait at the Frick, in which he seems a grand but old and discouraged lion.
"Portrait of a Gentleman" came to light when a descendant of 19th century painter Matthew Shepperson put a series of paintings by the artist up for sale in August 2010.
Meanwhile, on the grounds outside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, there's a sculpture installation of four enormous portrait busts, one for each season, an homage of sorts to Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose whimsical portraits were composed of produce and plants.
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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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The portrait is in the Museum of the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, where it is attributed to the Roman painter Luca Longhi.
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