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[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
[[Image:Goya Self Portrait.gif|right|Goya]]
In painting a '''[[Portrait]]''' is an artistic representation of a person. The [[painter]] is aimed to represent the face and its expression, the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Earliest painters used [[landscape|landscapes]] as background of portraits.
In painting a '''[[Portrait]]''' is an artistic representation of a person. The [[painter]] is aimed to represent the face and its expression, the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. Earliest painters used [[landscape|landscapes]] as background of portraits.
The Gallery was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women; the Gallery collections include over 195,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day. [http://www.npg.org.uk/]
[[Albrecht Dürer]]'s made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe.
[[Albrecht Dürer]]'s made many self-portraits; the most celebrated is the one painted when he was 29 and was renowned throughout Europe.