1.   A good copy, painted by a twentieth-century court painter, but nevertheless a copy.

2.   Bartholomeus Spranger, a court painter of allegories depicting lusty women and robust angels, was favored alongside Roelandt Savery, a painter of delicate landscapes.

3.   Charles le Brun, court painter to Louis XIV, is sorely vexed.

4.   Napoleon crafted his own legend, often by essentially designing the portraits that court painters rendered of him.

5.   The czarina not only paid his debts but brought him to Russia as court painter.

6.   There he landed the job of court painter, a position he held for decades.

7.   He was court painter to Henry VIII and did many portraits of the king and his wives.