| In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters. |
| Ter Borch's later full-length portraits depict sitters with reserved yet confident postures. |
| The identities of the sitters in the Phillips portraits have only recently been discovered. |
| Rembrandt's portraits of individual sitters are similarly energetic, emphasizing faces, hands, and dynamic silhouettes at the expense of costumes and settings. |
| Tree sitters can spend months camped on platforms in old-growth trees, hoping to call attention to the environmental effects of logging. |
| Most sitters are portrayed frontally, aligned with the camera lens, in direct eye contact with the photographer and, in turn, the viewer. |
