1.   Checking on request by Rep. Jim Leach, R-Davenport, on whether lawmakers can use campaign funds to commission a portrait of a former congressional committee chairman.

2.   He also commissioned portraits of senior generals who served with him in the Peninsular War or fought alongside him at Waterloo.

3.   One year, she surprised him by commissioning a portrait of Chelsea.

4.   Others commission portraits as an unabashed act of self-veneration.

5.   The leaders of the expedition were hailed as heroes, showered with honors, and their formal portraits were commissioned.

6.   The National Art Museum of Sport commissioned his portraits of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

7.   Bingham and his wife, Anne, commissioned the portrait as a symbol of reconciliation between Britain and America.

8.   To mark the exchange, the two galleries each commissioned a portrait for their own collection by an artist of the other country.