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18x30" app Oil on Canvas Available
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'Tronie'(Green Peafowl) |
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This one took a deceptively long time. An inordinate amount of which was spent on the background (although it doesn't look much in a photo). I wanted to get the feel of a Rembrandt portrait, which is where the title comes from. A 'tronie' was a type of generic portrait painted often by Rembrandt & his followers. They weren't meant to be of anyone in particular (though of course they were), they were just pictures of people, often in heroic or outlandish costume, a description which fits the Green Peafowl's plumage admirably. These birds are pure spectacle in breeding plumage, at least rivaling their more familiar blue cousins.
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