The spindles of Windsor chairs support the spine and move with the sitter's changes in position. |
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The pose is natural and expressive of the sitter's obvious intellectual impoverishment. |
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The sitter's intense glance back at the viewer somehow disallows objectification, as well as any pathologization. |
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The portrait conveyed the casual and relaxing quality of the sitter's personality, which is important in this work. |
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You should also slightly angle the sitter's chair so that one shoulder is closer to the camera and get the subject to turn their head to face the camera again. |
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This canvas is one of many impressionist paintings in which the still-life elements help to establish the sitter's status by emphasizing luxurious material goods. |
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His grasp of spatial relationships ensures that each portrait, however sparely drawn, conveys the sitter's presence. |
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His 1532 portrait of Sir Brian Tuke, for example, alludes to the sitter's poor health, comparing his sufferings to those of Job. |
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Holbein portrays the merchant Georg Gisze among elaborate symbols of science and wealth that evoke the sitter's personal iconography. |
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After Lely painted a sitter's head, Lely's pupils would often complete the portrait in one of a series of numbered poses. |
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This striving for perfection is very evident in his portrait drawings, where he searches with his brush for just the right line for the sitter's profile. |
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The 1776 canvas is fresh and well preserved with wonderful passages of impasted pigment, not least the lead white highlights of the sitter's shawl. |
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