Following the translation of Theophrastus's Characters into English, a number of British and American painters attempted to illustrate the "types" of humanity.
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As late as William Hogarth, portraitists were doing studies of (in his case), Nine heads. The artist performing a character sketch attempts to capture an expression or gesture that goes beyond coincident actions and gets to the essence of the individual.
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