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portrait-painting

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  • It pictures a corpulent, naked Sue Tilley, who achieved fame when her portrait-painting "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" 1995, sold to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in 2008 at Christie's New York for $33.6 million.

    A Spectrum Apart Margaret Studer 2012

  • She was constantly doing tapestry, petit point, calligraphy, portrait-painting, water colours, tinkering with her herbaceous border, that sort of stuff.

    Vanessa Feltz: My family values 2011

  • And his wife Margaret Burr must have been happy: no beautiful women, only trees, bushes, hills, streams, horses and cows… But, back to his portrait-painting days.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • And his wife Margaret Burr must have been happy: no beautiful women, only trees, bushes, hills, streams, horses and cows… But, back to his portrait-painting days.

    Author Jo Manning on Thomas Gainsborough Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2010

  • In 2002, during a downturn in Japan, the House of Councillors reduced the pay of Diet lawmakers by 10 percent, and ended the transportation allowance, portrait-painting and pension given senior lawmakers.

    Leo W. Gerard: Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay 2009

  • The event opened with an interactive portrait-painting session.

    » 2009 » October Strocel.com 2009

  • The event opened with an interactive portrait-painting session.

    » I am an Artist Strocel.com 2009

  • Rosalba in portrait-painting, both in miniature and at large, in oil as well as in crayons.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • He would have done very well in it, in portrait-painting especially.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Get the lay of the land ahead of time by spending Christmas at the Four Seasons Resort, where guests can enjoy a variety of seasonal activities, from making s'mores over a bonfire to a family portrait-painting session in the library.

    In Pictures: Luxurious Holiday Inns Sophia Banay 2006

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