Oscar Wilde – The portrait of Dorian Gray
Sofonisba Anguissola, Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola, 1559 Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. …