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Antonio Bosano, Pencil Portrait Artist
When I informed my wife at the tail end of 2011 that I was going to build the world’s largest pencil portrait website, I got precisely the reaction I would expect from a person who knows me as well as she does. No hint of trepidation—no obvious “How long will that take you?” Nothing really—beyond “Oh that’s good.” She knows I never lose interest in projects.
Mind you, one thing has changed. When people ask after me, she now replies “He’s under construction!”
A BRIEF WORD ON GENDER NEUTRALITY.
As anyone who follows entertainment news has become aware over the last decade and a half, most thespians of the female persuasion now refer to themselves as actors, not actresses. Journalists and other non-actors, to varying degrees, are getting to grips with the gender-neutral program. On the one hand this change in usage is informed by the egalitarian impulse that has pushed aside “stewardess” for “flight attendant” and, less successfully, “waitress” for the ungainly “waitperson” or ambience-free “server.”
Well, one of the great delights of having a website is the freedom to ignore such political correctness – or is it nonsense?!!! You decide, but here at this address, a woman is an actress.
Coming Soon
June 2018
The Duke of Edinburgh
New Portraits
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
Daliah lavi
Suranne Jones
Andrew Lincoln
October 2017
Tom Petty
Jessica Raine
Marilyn Monroe
September 2017
August 2017
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
Joni Mitchell
Olivia Newton John
July 2017
June 2017
Molly Peters
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
May 2017
Guy Doleman
Marion Cotillard
Carly Simon
April 2017
Elkie Brooks & Robert Palmer
Paul Carrack
Robbie Robertson
March 2017
February 2017
Emily Watson
Ruth Jones
Hattie Jacques
Peter Cushing
January 2017
George Michael
Dustin Hoffman
Ashley Graham
Harry Andrews
December 2016
Tom Hanks
John Grisham
Victoria Wood
November 2016
Helen McCrory
Michael Bublé- Revised portrait
Eva Mendes
Myrna Loy
October 2016
Steve Winwood
Natasha McElhone
June Ritchie
September 2016
Jennifer Jayne
Mary Wilson
Meryl Streep
August 2016
James Jamerson
Jane Merrow
Matt Damon
George Harrison – Revised Portrait
Eleanor Tomlinson
July 2016
June 2016
Steve Marriott
Edward Fox
James Fox
May 2016
Robert Plant
Eva Green
Glenn Ford
April 2016
Denzel Washington
Joanne Whalley
Sheridan Smith
Gerard Butler
March 2016
February 2016
- Alma Cogan
- Jeff Beck
- Clive Dunn
- Robert De Niro – Revised Portrait
- Cate Blanchett
January 2016
December 2015
November 2015
October 2015
- Natalie Imbruglia
- Catherine Deneuve
- Alexandra Bastedo
- Harold Wilson
- Marilyn Monroe
- Lynsey de Paul
- Gerry Anderson
- Lana Turner
September 2015
August 2015
- Smokey Robinson
- Aretha Franklin
- Monica Bellucci
- Alfredo Di Stéfano
- Henry Fonda
- Andy Williams
- Ingrid Bergman
- Nina Simone
July 2015
- Anne Hathaway
- Diana Dors
- Diana Ross
- Rod Steiger
- Dorothy Dandridge
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Henry Mancini
- Bernard Lee
- Otis Redding
June 2015
- Kathy Kirby
- Lulu
- AP McCoy
- Barack Obama
- The Everly Brothers
- Rex Harrison
- Stella Stevens
- Edward G. Robinson
- Elke Sommer
May 2015
- Stephen Boyd
- Enid Blyton
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Kelly Holmes
- Her Majesty, The Queen
- Barbara Murray
- Jonny Wilkinson
- Gary Sobers
- Zena Marshall
- Joe Cocker
- Frankie Dettori
April 2015
- Gene Hackman
- Ray Winstone
- Julie Andrews
- Christopher Lee
- Geoffrey Keen
- Little Richard
- Racquel Welch
- Teresa Wright
- Terry Thomas
March 2015
- Eddie Redmayne
- Senta Berger
- Oliver Reed
- Ingrid Pitt
- Joan Collins – Revised Portrait
- Kim Karshadian
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Shirley Eaton
- Nicole Scherzinger
- Russell Crowe
- Aidan Turner
- Twiggy
February 2015
- Janet Munro
- Rod Taylor
- Luzianna Paluzzi
- Carole King
- Jeanette Sterke
- Loretta Young
- Glen Campbell
- Maria Perschy
- Yvonne Romain
- Sammy Davis Jnr
- Jose Feliciano
January 2015
December 2014
December 2012
My kindle book John Lennon—Reflections on a life is now available for download.
Updated Commentaries
- Iman Abdulmajid
- Adele
- Muhammad Ali
- Ursula Andress
- Julie Andrews
- Chet Atkins
- Burt Bacharach
- Stanley Baker
- Gary Barlow
- John Barry
- Alan Bates
- The Beatles
- David Beckham *
- Tony Bennett
- George Benson
- Chuck Berry [new]
- George Best
- Beyonce
- Honor Blackman
- Dirk Bogarde (updated 23/07/14)
- Humphrey Bogart (updated 7/9/13)
- Hugh Bonneville
- David Bowie
- Marlon Brando
- Yul Brynner
- Michael Bublé
- Richard Burton (updated 14/4/13)
- Kate Bush (updated 19/10/14)
- Michael Caine
- Glen Campbell
- Claudia Cardinale
- Helena Bonham-Carter
- Johnny Cash (updated 27/5/13)
- Gabrielle Chanel (updated 13/2/14)
- Ray Charles
- Cher
- Eric Clapton (updated 03/10/13)
- Jim Clark [new]
- John Cleese [new]
- Winston Churchill (updated 29/1/13)
- George Clooney
- Brian Clough
- Eddie Cochran
- David Coleman
- Sean Connery
- Harry H Corbett (updated 9/3/14)
- Chris Cornell
- Daniel Craig [expanded]
- Joan Crawford
- Sheryl Crow [new]
- Tom Cruise
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Tony Curtis
- Timothy Dalton
- Bette Davis
- Sammy Davis Jnr
- Miles Davis
- James Dean
- Simon Dee
- Diana, Princess of Wales [new] (updated 14/4/13)
- Sandy Denny
- Michelle Dockery
- Michael Douglas
- Bob Dylan (updated 4/3/13)
- Shirley Eaton
- Duke Ellington
- Clint Eastwood
- Jose Feliciano
- Bryan Ferry
- Shirley Anne Field
- Albert Finney (updated 15/1/14)
- Errol Flynn
- Harrison Ford
- Clark Gable
- Lady GaGa (updated 19/10/14)
- Greta Garbo
- Ava Gardner [new]
- Art Garfunkel
- Marvin Gaye (updated 8/3/13)
- Eunice Gayson
Mel Gibson - Karen Gillan
- Philip Glenister
- Gloria Grahame
- Hugh Grant
- Pete Ham
- Naomie Harris
Richard Harris (updated 18/3/13)
George Harrison - Debbie Harry (updated 29/3/15)
- Tippi Hedren
- William Hartnell
- Jack Hawkins
- Audrey Hepburn
- Bernard Herrmann
- Alfred Hitchcock (updated 7/5/13)
- Buddy Holly
- Trevor Howard
- Sir Geoff Hurst
- Lauren Hutton
- Michael Jackson (updated 27/4/13)
- Mick Jagger (updated 26/1/14)
- Sid James (updated 29/3/13)
- David Janssen
- David Jason
- Billy Joel (updated 21/3/15)
- Elton John (updated 10/06/14)
- Richard Johnson
- Angelina Jolie
- Brian Jones
- Tom Jones (updated 3/3/15)
- Carolyn Jones (updated 2/6/13)
- Kim Kardashian
- Carol Kaye
- Grace Kelly (updated 12/2/13)
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Dr Martin Luther King [new]
- Heddy Lamarr
- Burt Lancaster (updated 3/3/14)
- George Lazenby
- Peggy Lee (updated 17/3/13)
- Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau
- John Lennon
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Julie London
- Joanna Lumley
- Patrick Macnee (updated 15/3/15)
- Madonna (updated 15/3/15)
- Dorothy Malone
- Imelda May
- Paul McCartney [new] (updated 7/11/13)
- Nelson Mandela
- Steve McQueen [new] (updated 2/3/13)
- Freddie Mercury
- John Le Mesurier
- Kate Middleton
- Vera Miles
- John Mills
- Kylie Minogue
- Helen Mirren
- Robert Mitchum
- Matt Monro
- Marilyn Monroe [new]
- Bobby Moore
- Roger Moore [revised and expanded]
- Kenneth More
- Morecambe & Wise [new]
- Van Morrison
- Janet Munro
- Andy Murray
- Graham Nash
- Paul Newman
- Jack Nicholson
- Harry Nilsson (updated 27/7/13)
- Leonard Nimoy
- David Niven (updated 09/6/13)
- Kim Novak [new]
- Laurence Olivier (updated 21/10/14)
- Roy Orbison
- Clive Owen
- Lucianna Paluzzi
- Pele
- Carl Perkins
- Eva Peron
- Maia Perschy
- Michelle Pfeffer
- Brad Pitt
- Sidney Poitier (updated 17/3/13)
- Christopher Plummer (updated 10/9/13)
- Billy Preston (updated 16/9/13)
- Basil Rathbone
- Robert Redford
- Oliver Reed
- Cliff Richard
- Keith Richards
- Diana Rigg
- Yvonne Romain
- JK Rowling
- Eve Marie Saint
- Lalo Schifrin
- Ayrton Senna
- Rufus Sewell
- Robert Shaw
- Jean Shrimpton
- Paul Simon (updated 17/3/14)
- Jean Simmons
- Frank Sinatra [new]
- Dame Maggie Smith
- Romy Sneider
- Dusty Springfield [new]
- Terence Stamp
- Ringo Starr
- Jeanette Sterke
- James Stewart
- Sting
- Mark Strong
- Gilbert O’Sullivan
- Taylor Swift
- Elizabeth Taylor (updated 16/4/13)
- Mick Taylor
- Rod Taylor
- Gene Tierney
- Terry Thomas
- The Trotters
- Aidan Turner
- Tina Turner
- Robert Vaughn [new]
- Marc Warren
- Paul Weller
- The Who
- Brian Wilson
- Amy Winehouse [revised and expanded]
- Norman Wisdom
- Stevie Wonder
- Natalie Wood
- Ronnie Wood (updated 31/10/13)
- Bill Wyman
- Loretta Young