1.   And as with most things on Capitol Hill, the rarefied art of portrait painting includes a few political brush strokes.

2.   Before Eastman, photography was like portrait painting.

3.   Critics can quibble with the style and colors of the Luntz school of portrait painting, but the overall likeness to reality is powerful, and instructive.

4.   Even Julian Schnabel, until now uncharacteristically private about his portrait painting, is considering a show on the subject.

5.   Florentine portrait painting changed again with the work of Sandro Botticelli, who, like Leonardo, studied with Verrocchio.

6.   He shows, too, how Rembrandt remade the conventions of the portrait painting.

7.   It put portrait painting out of business on a certain level.

8.   Portrait painting is a difficult task, artists say.

9.   Stagers also recommend that homeowners put away personal possessions like family photographs and portrait paintings that may draw attention from the house.