The faces are obscure and not individual, almost without a character; it is through the beauty of the bright colors and the excellent compositions that these portraits are outstanding. ... Actually his exact words were "Grande Style. " Best his words can explain it: "Nature is not all to be represented as it is, but as it ought to be, and might possibly have been; and it is required of and should be the aim of the artist-photographer to produce in the likeness the best possible character and finest expression of which that particular face or figure could ever have been capable (Reynolds). ... ...

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