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Lately there has been consternation over governmental departments and their commissioning of "official portraits" from the military to the judicial and everywhere inbetween.
Seems part of the annoyance by those who style themselves "watchdogs of government waste" has to do with the practice of dispensing commissions for such work without "competetive bidding" (hah!).
I suppose I'm not the only one who reads these boards who has made the occasional effort to insert myself into that "market" . . . (without success).
It would be very instructive to hear others' experiences with "official portraiture". In the case of the presidential portrait, does the president choose the artist? I still recall Johnson's reaction to Hurd's portrait of him. I rather doubt Lyndon chose Pete . . .
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