9 / Portraits

• • Portrait of Fath ‘Ali ShahMirza Baba (Persian, active 1789–1810)	James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and ChildSir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)	The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. KentonThomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)	Standing Statue of HatshepsutUnknown artist, Thebes, Egypt	Kuya-Shonin (Saint Kuya)Kosho (Japan, active late 12th–early 13th century)	Henry VIII, King of EnglandHans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) or Workshop
    Andy WarholAlice Neel (American, 1900–1984)	Gertrude SteinPablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)	Portrait HeadMoche artist, Peru	Kennedy Family on beach, Hyannis Port, 1959 (Caroline overhead)Mark Shaw (American, 1922–1969)	Don Gaspar de Guzmán (1587–1645), Count-Duke of OlivaresDiego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599–1660)	Diane von FurstenbergAndy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
    Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke OlivaresKehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977).	Royal Portrait Head (“Head of Sargon the Great”)Unknown artist, Nineveh	Lady with Mink and VeilOtto Dix (German, 1891–1969)	Napoleon I on His Imperial ThroneJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867)	Memorial HeadAkan artist, Twifo region, Hemang city, Ghana

expert perspective

David Lubin Professor of Art, Wake Forest University

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When John Kennedy was running for president he was very conscious, he and his father, Joseph Kennedy, who had started off as a Hollywood producer, ran a studio and was very conscious about developing Kennedy’s image in a certain way that would appeal to the electorate, and it was an electorate that was postwar. It was the era of Dr. Spock and it was about being child-friendly—that this is what was expected of a leader. Whereas in previous generations leaders were expected to be distant, remote, and authoritarian and patriarchal, John Kennedy is not a patriarch; he’s a family man. And so the pictures that Mark Shaw, for example, photographed of the Kennedys in Hyannisport in the summer of 1959, when he was first running for the Democratic nomination, really emphasized that he was part of a unit of wife, father, daughter.

So he did a really brilliant job of merging authority and privilege and power with a sense of approachability, that people could look at Kennedy and go, ‘Geez, he has young kids, he probably wakes up in the middle of the night to deal with his kids’ problems just the same as I do.’ And so he humanizes his authority.”