Painting a Portrait | Our Daily Bread

The National Portrait Gallery in London, England, houses a treasure of paintings from across the centuries, including 166 images of Winston Churchill, 94 of William Shakespeare, and 20 of George Washington. With the older portraits, we may wonder: Is that what these individuals really looked like?For instance, there are eight paintings of Scottish patriot William Wallace (c. 1270–1305), but we obviously…

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