BY A PARENT PORTRAYED

by Suzanne L. Epstein, Ph.D.

By A Parent Portrayed is the title of a digital image illustrated lecture by Dr. Suzanne L. Epstein demonstrating how several celebrated European and American artists have portrayed their children during the past 400 years.

The lecture will highlight the work of such artistically talented mothers as

 

¨     Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun

¨     Lilla Cabot Perry

¨     Berthe Morisot

 

and such artistically talented fathers as

 

¨     Rembrandt van Rijn

¨     Peter Paul Rubens

¨     Thomas Gainsborough

¨     Pierre Auguste Renoir

 

It will focus on the many different ways in which those artists chose to portray their children.  It will also demonstrate the extent to which their portraits of their progeny were influenced by their close personal relationship to their subjects.

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