Freehand Portraits from Photographs

These portraits of brides, children, and animals were painted with oil on canvas or drawn with pastel, charcoal, or pencil. All were created freehand while looking at a photograph (some pages show the photograph). Click on an image to see a larger version, more information, and price. See Southern Historical Art for portraits of ancestors and Confederates. Portraits from Life are done while the subject sits for the portrait.

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"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." --Colossians 2:8

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"... [H]ow often the best, and most pleasing talents, not accompanied by virtue and prudence, operate the destruction of their possessor." --William Hill Brown, in The Power of Sympathy (1789)

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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." --Thomas a' Kempis (1380-1471)

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"Brethren, we shall not adjust our Bible to the age, but the age to the Bible." --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) ***

"Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise." --Deuteronomy 12:30

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." --C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), professor at Oxford and Cambridge; novelist; former agnostic. From the Screwtape Letters, 1942.

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"Let this, my young readers, be your constant maxim, that no man can be good enough to enable him to neglect the rules of prudence; nor will Virtue herself look beautiful unless she be bedecked with the outward ornaments of decency and decorum." --Henry Fielding, in Tom Jones (1749)

Other works based on photos:

One print SOLD,
two in private collections.
Three prints for sale.

Private Collection

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round!
    Parents first season us; then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws; they send us, bound
    To rules of reason, holy messengers,
Pulpits and Sundayes, sorrow dogging sinne,
    Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes,
Fine nets and strategems to catch us in,
    Bibles laid open, millions of surprises;
Blessings beforehand, tyes of gratefulnesse,
    The sound of glorie ringing in our eares,
Without, our shame; within, our consciences;
    Angels and grace, eternall hopes and fears.

Yet all these fences and their whole aray
One cunning bosome-sinne blows quite away.

--George Herbert (1593-1633), "Sinne"

Art © Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney. All rights reserved.
These works of art, including the electronic files, may NOT be copied, saved to disk, printed out,
or used in any manner without the artist's express written permission.

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