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

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

One subsequent sitter would be Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had reportedly hated More so much that upon his execution she threw his portrait to the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

She sat on a footstool with folded hands before the oversized portrait of her late husband, Lord Edward Ashton, which hung in a row with all the other ancestral portraits that lined the wall.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood