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Imagined Lives: Portraits of unknown people

Tracy Chevalier

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Published on the occasion of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 3 December - August 2012.

Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits.

Who are these men and women, why were they painted, and why do they now find themselves in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery?

With fictional letters, diaries, mini-biographies and memoirs, 'Imagined Lives' creates vivid stories about these unknown sitters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: National Portrait Gallery

Release: August 16, 2011

ISBN: 1855144557

ISBN 13: 9781855144552

Imagined Lives: Portraits of unknown people

Tracy Chevalier

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Published on the occasion of a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 3 December - August 2012.

Eight internationally acclaimed authors have invented imaginary biographies and character sketches based on fourteen unidentified portraits.

Who are these men and women, why were they painted, and why do they now find themselves in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery?

With fictional letters, diaries, mini-biographies and memoirs, 'Imagined Lives' creates vivid stories about these unknown sitters from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Paperback

Publisher: National Portrait Gallery

Release: August 16, 2011

ISBN: 1855144557

ISBN 13: 9781855144552

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