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To: nickcarraway

Looks like the same portrait of every English man from Elizabethan times. Either they all looked alike or the portrait painters were just copying the same painting over and over again.


15 posted on 11/22/2022 3:26:48 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I believe it was common to paint the whole scene first then do the faces and hands. These weren’t polaroids. It took many days to paint the background then they would sit for the actual portrait. Or so my know it all mother told me. She knows everything, just ask her.


33 posted on 11/22/2022 4:28:15 PM PST by enraged
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