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Portraiture in the Rossetti Circle
2012
Overview
The artist england on a portrait, is to inscribe the character and not the features,” instructed an 1861 article on portraiture. The artist “must ‘esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within.’”¹ According to this view of portraiture, the artist’s job is to make the sitter’s hidden interior visible, to interpret the sitter’s soul on the basis of his or her physical appearance. While the ideas about portrait-painting expressed in this article fromBentley’s Miscellanyremained more or less consistent in the popular imagination through the nineteenth century,
