“It is for the artist.... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)

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American-born, British-based artist 1834–1903

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