'Getting your portrait painted isn't much more than a vainglorious act of self-love; here's why I'm doing it anyway'
Credit: Getty Images Our columnist Joe Gibbs has been sitting for a portrait, despite a few misgivings. Here's what he's learned. I’m having my portrait painted. I can give you several excellent objective reasons for this. A painting of my wife executed some years ago seems lonely without a pair to it, we agree; her words, not mine. Other generations of our family hang around the walls of our home, including our children, leaving a paternal question mark of sorts for the future and a sense of the incomplete. It becomes daily more apparent that, if I don’t take the plunge soon, the on...
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