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Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
And, lastly, what makes a portrait painting more important - the painter who painted it or the sitter who sat for it?
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I`d say with commissioned portraits, it is no doubt the sitter,
the painter is just doing his/her job.
For non -commissioned portrait and figurative work one can make an interpretation of the sitter/model,and the painter is most important.