portrait

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Compressing and occasionally revealing all that she has been through in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and before, what she manages to make Aunt Lydia is both Dorian Gray and his portrait.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

I ended up with this cool portrait and priceless memories.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

John Galsworthy’s tales of an affluent family in Victorian and Edwardian England offer a vivid portrait of a vanished era.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

He has already hung portraits of himself inside the White House, breaking with the tradition that a president wait until the end of his term to be invited by a successor to unveil a portrait.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

In Tokyo a decade later, there were so many visitors that each was allowed no more than ten seconds in front of the portrait.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day