Portraits from Life (Drawings & Oil Paintings)

These portraits from life were drawn on paper with charcoal, conte crayon, pencil, pastel, or ink, or painted with oil on canvas or linen. See also Freehand Portraits from Photographs for portraits of brides, children, and animals; and Southern Historical Art for portraits of ancestors and Confederates. Click on an image to see a larger version, more information, and price.

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"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."
--1 Timothy 1:15

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"The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. Its importance is incalculable."
--Katherine Short

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"... [E]very doctrine of God’s Word hangs upon and confirms the total depravity of fallen man...."
--L. R. Shelton, Sr., "The Bondage of the Sinner's Will"

"It was always my opinion, that fewer women were undone by love, than vanity; and that those mistakes the sex are sometimes guilty of, proceed, for the most part, rather from inadvertency, than a vicious inclination.... There are some who behold, with indignation and contempt, those errors in others, which, unhappily, they are every day falling into themselves; and as want of a due consideration occasions the guilt, for the want of a due consideration also occasions the scandal: and there would be much less room either for the one or the other, were some part of that time, which is wasted at the toilet, in consulting what dress is most becoming to the face, employed in examining the heart, and what actions are most becoming of the character."
--Eliza Haywood, in The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)

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"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
--Philippians 4:8

"I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him, love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly; and we can preach better to others, we can speak more of His lovingkindness and tender mercy. John Bunyan could not have written as he did if he had not been dragged about by the devil for many years."
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), in "The Great Change--Conversion"

"I see the right, and I approve it, too;
Condemn the wrong and yet the wrong pursue." --Ovid (43 B.C.-A.D. 18), in Metamorphoses

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"Reade not to contradict and confute; nor to beleeve and take for granted; nor to find talke and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
--Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in "Of Studies," in The Essayes, or Counsels Civill & Morall

...I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain,
Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburnt brain.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows;
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
--Sir Phillip Sidney (1554-1586), from "Astrophel and Stella"

"We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors [other religions]...."
--James Kent (1763-1847), Chief Justice of the N.Y. Supreme Court, Head of the Court of Chancery.

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality."
-- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) ***

"The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts."
--George Mueller (great man of prayer and faith, nineteenth-century England)

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"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." --Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." --Proverbs 9:10 "Bible reading is an education in itself." --Lord Tennyson

Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begott
A constant habit; that when I would not
I change in vowes, and in devotione.
As humorous is my contritione
As my prophane Love, and as soone forgott:
As ridlingly distemper'd, cold and hott,
As praying, as mute; as infinite, as none.
I durst not view heaven yesterday; and to day
In prayers, and flattering speaches I court God:
To morrow I quake with true feare of his rod.
So my devout fitts come and go away
Like a fantistique Ague: save that here
Those are my best dayes, when I shake with feare.
--John Donne (1572-1631)

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
--Alexander Pope (1688-1744), from "An Essay on Criticism"

"Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee." --John Donne (1572-1631), from "The Triple Fool" "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." --Plutarch (46? to c. 120 A.D.) "Every person of learning is finally his own teacher." --Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity."
--John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President (1767-1848)

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"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! I would go fifty miles on foot...to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands -- be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore."
--Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

"There is no learned man but will confess that he hath much profited by reading controversies -- his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds more firmly established. All controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true."
--John Milton (1608-1674)

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"We have rebelled against God. We have lost the true spirit of Christianity, though we retain the outward profession and form of it.... By many, the Gospel is currupted into a superficial system of moral philosophy, little better than anceint Platonism...."
--Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard, 1775.

"How frail is the heart! How dim is human foresight! We behold the gilded bait of temptation, and know not until taught by experience, that the admission of one errour is but the introduction of calamity. One mistake imperceptibly leads to another -- but the consequences of the whole bursting suddenly on the devoted head of an unfortunate wanderer, becomes intolerable."
--William Hill Brown, in The Power of Sympathy (1789)

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"But it had not been in Tess's power -- nor is it in anybody's power -- to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them." --Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

...I thought, if I could draw my paines,
Through Rimes vexation, I should them allay.
Griefe brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.
--John Donne (1572-1631), from "The Triple Foole"

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"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" --Isaiah 5:20-21

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin

"An art work has value as a creation because man is made in the image of God, and therefore man not only can love and think and feel emotion, but also has the capacity to create. Being in the image of the Creator, we are called upon to have creativity. In fact, it is part of the image of God to be creative, or to have creativity." --F. A. Schaeffer

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As due by many titles I resigne
My selfe to thee, O God, first I was made
By thee, and for thee, and when I was decay'd
Thy blood bought that, the which before was thine;
I am thy sonne, made with thy selfe to shine,
Thy servant, whose paines thou hast still repaid,
Thy sheepe, thine Image, and, till I betray'd
My selfe, a temple of thy Spirit divine;
Why doth the devill then usurpe on mee?
Why doth he steale, nay ravish that's thy right?
Except thou rise and for thine own worke fight,
Oh I shall soone despaire, when I doe see
That thou lov'st mankind well, yet wilt'not chuse me,
And Satan hates mee, yet is loth to lose mee.
--John Donne (1572-1631)

Experiments in Drawing from the Imagination (No Model)

I woke the fairy elves, who shun the light;
When, from their blossom'd beds, they slily peep,
And spy my pale star, leading on the night,--
Forth to their games and revelry they leap....
--Ann Radcliffe, from "Song of the Evening Hour,"
in The Mysteries of Udopho (1794)

Commissioned for a CD cover.
Original is for sale.

"Like the sorceror of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues for as long as the enchantment lasts." --Urie Bronfenbrenner, 1970.

How clear she shines! How quietly
    I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and earth are whispering me,
    "To morrow, wake, but, dream to-night."
Yes, Fancy, come, my Fairy love!
    These throbbing temples softly kiss;
And bend my lonely couch above
    And bring me rest, and bring me bliss.
--Emily Bronte (1818-1848), from "How Clear She Shines"

To have my aim, and yet to be
Farther from it then when I bent my bow;
To make my hopes my torture, and the fee
Of all my woes another wo,
Is in the midst of delicates to need,
And ev'n in Paradise to be a weed.

Ah, my deare Father, ease my smart!
These contrarieties crush me; these crosse actions
Doe winde a rope about, and cut my heart:
And yet since these Thy contradictions
Are properly a crosse felt by Thy Sonne
With but foure words, my words, 'Thy will be done!'

--George Herbert (1593-1633), "The Crosse"

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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