Portraitist

🇬🇧Lucian Freud

Art

Expressionism

1922–2011

"I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."

🇺🇸Maggie Stiefvater

literature

b. 1981

"What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her."

🇬🇧Thomas Gainsborough

Art

Rococo

1727–1788

"We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyck is of the company."