Faces are more than a montage of organs that see; breathe; speak; hear; eat; sing; smell; and yell. As Josephine Tey points out in her mystery novel; The Daughter of Time; the slant of an eyebrow; the set of a mouth; the look of the eye; the firmness of a chin; often can provide evidence of character that is as telling as a report card or a police blotter. Those features depicted on portraits of individuals can be equally telling of the personrsquo;s inner nature or perhaps of what the artist thinks (or wants the viewer to think) about the person being portrayed. Sometimes a portrait might be even more useful than a biography.While examining these portraits; the author considers three questions: what was Wesleyrsquo;s attitude toward the portrait (if any); how did the public respond to these portrayals; and what was the artist attempting to convey? This book focuses on the main portraits and their derivatives; looking at them within the three main categories that developed over the years: Oxford don; Methodist preacher; and notable person. Although these types seemed to arise in chronological order; there is some overlap between categories; especially toward the end of Wesleyrsquo;s life and beyond.
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