On portraiture, artistic freedom and what happens when a person is seen through an artist’s eyes. Sometimes I show a portrait and hear, “It doesn’t quite feel like him.” I understand this. Especially in commissioned portraiture, recognition matters. We know the people we love through hundreds of familiar expressions, gestures and tiny details. Still, I sometimes look back at the painting and feel genuinely surprised, because to me, the person does look like that. Perhaps not

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