Maggie Collins, as seen by Grandma Moses

I think the worst portrait is definately the one of Quentin. I hated it.

As for the best portrait, I really liked the one of Angelique in 1970PT. I also liked the Josette one, even though it didn't look very much like Kathryn Leigh Scott. Barnabas' portraits were also pretty good.

I liked most of the ones shown on the show, except for the Charles Deleware Tate ones and the one of Maggie.

As much as I love my Maggie, and I really truly do, that "portrait" was just.....AWFUL. I was folding laundry while watching the episodes, and I was on a big huge towel, and I only caught a glance of the portrait. I dropped that towel so fast and pressed Rewind, and gawd......I just about died laughing! Is it just me or did Maggie look as if she was hangin' with Laura and Nellie in Walnut Grove?

Can someone post a picture of the portrait of Maggie Ii missed that episode.

Can someone post a picture of the portrait of Maggie

I think the portrait of Maggie Collins is the best of them. It's the one portrait that looks like it's subject. IMHO...

dom

My least favorite portait is the pt of Maggie.  My favorite is the portait of
Barnabas in the foyer.

ms. hoffman

LOL at this discussion.  Aside from the portrait of PT Maggie looking like a paint by numbers, it looks like they didn't get the paints with the set.  Looks like washed out colored pencils were used.

I think the vibrancy and style issues may have been intentional.  They wanted to emphasize the larger than life Angelique and the mousy little Maggie.

Hope Quentin didn't pay the big bucks for this portrait!

I guess Paris artists ain't what they used to be. Quentin was so distraught at what he had bought, he ripped it to shreds--with a little help from Angelexis.

I think the portrait of Maggie Collins is the best of them. It's the one portrait that looks like it's subject. IMHO...

Actually Dom, I like it too, yet there's something wrong with it.

Perhaps its the dull colors (especially in comparison with the vibrant colors used in Ang's portrait).
Plus, TLATKLS's face looks a little long.
Again, IMHO.
Patti

I think I mentioned this last time, too, but it looked to me like Maggie's portrait was done with pastels.

I, too, have been noticing the beautiful portrait of Angelique.

Close up, it seems to lose some of its subtlety, though, especially around the eyes and eyebrows I thought it looked slightly cartoonish (I mean that in an artistic sense, not to demean it).  Yet it both looks very much like Angelique and also seems to capture the character.

Love these comments!  I have always hated the Quentin portrait, and now I feel that I am not alone.
Afan

Ah - portrait talk!

The paint-by-numbers portrait of PT Maggie is right up there with the worst, but I also hate the one of RT Angelique dressed up in her servant's clothes. It makes her face look fat.

I think my favorite portrait is Josette - and I was very unhappy when they defaced the portrait in 1897!!! The funny thing is that was simply another prop on the show long before they ever intended to actually show Josette. According to KLS, the original portrait was eventually "retouched" to look more like her, but after examining the original in the pre-Barnabas episodes I was unable to discern any difference.

What I really enjoy is watching the various generic portraits appear all over town. The one of the mustachiod gentleman has shown up on just about every set. It currently resides at Timothy's Stoke's house in PT.

I also love that one in the Collinwood drawing room and wish I had Episode Number 2 on tape where Elizabeth identifies all the Collins ancestors in the drawing room. It's the one to the left of the fireplace - the guy in the big floppy hat. Who was this - Leonardo Collins? :-

the one to the left of the fireplace - the guy in the big floppy hat. Who was this - Leonardo Collins? :-

Yes, I distinctly remember him. One of his many inventions was bat-on-a-stick. It was all the rage in 16th century Collinsport.

Yes, I distinctly remember him. One of his many inventions was bat-on-a-stick. It was all the rage in 16th century Collinsport.

Sorry....if there was a village there in the 16th century, it's name would have been Abanaki Indian dialect for something like "Watch-out-for-high-cliffs-everywhere!"....NOT 'Collinsport'.

Sorry....if there was a village there in the 16th century, it's name would have been Abanaki Indian dialect for something like "Watch-out-for-high-cliffs-everywhere!"....NOT 'Collinsport'.

I'm sorry, but recent acheological excavations below Widows' Hill have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that as far back as prehistoric times the Collins family has lived there and it has always been called Collinsport.    They also uncovered the fact that silver was in use there centuries before it was discovered in the rest of the world, and discovered a bunch of pointy wooden carvings for which they have no explanation as of yet.