1.   He left the bank and opened a portrait studio, using the prize money as capital.

2.   After studying commercial art, he painted advertising signs and worked as a photographic technician in portrait studios.

3.   Fooling around with cameras led to a portrait studio here.

4.   He also colored daguerreotypes for James Ball, a black photographer who operated a thriving portrait studio.

5.   He even lent her two rooms in the museum as a portrait studio, probably an improper commercial use of public museum space.

6.   He turned to the medium after working as a calligrapher and, like uncounted early photographers, set up a portrait studio.

7.   Plus a portrait studio, a bank, a tire-and-lube shop and, just his luck, a garden center.

8.   Upon returning home, the native New Yorker moved to Boston and set up a profitable portrait studio.