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Just seventeen years old when he completed this remarkable portrait, Jamie Wyeth demonstrated near mastery of the realist tradition in his youth. Lester shows off a variety of technical feats: from capturing a strikingly realistic portrait, to orchestrating the variety of white tones needed to deliniate the wrinkles of the shirt, to the expert handling of the subtle shifts in skin tone. Wyeth's work in this phase of his career has often been compared with that of seventeenth-century Dutch painters who were known for rendering meticulous detail.
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