In studies of similar questions, up to 80 percent of participants chose the equivalent of the second statement: that Lucy is a portrait artist who also plays poker.
Cecilia Beaux was born in 1854, and after learning to paint and studying with several important artists of the time, Beaux became known as one of the best portrait painters in the United States.
And he kind of basically sells her as a model to the man who is widely regarded by this point as the greatest portrait painter in Britain, even greater than Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the Royal Academy.
Well, or if you go to, you know, a theme park or the streets of Paris or something and you see a caricature artist parked next to the realistic, like, I'll do a realistic pencil sketch of you.
Speaking of things found in the trash, an 18th century sketch by English portrait painter George Romney was pulled out of a dumpster in Hudson, New York last year.
The greatest portrait painters have painted both, man and the intention of his soul; Rembrandt and El Greco; it's only the second-raters who've only painted man.