Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Thomas Hibbert (detail), 1786.

VIENNA, AUSTRIA.- The Belvedere presents Enlightened Bourgeois - Portraits from Gainsborough to Waldmüller 1750 –1840, on view through February 18, 2007. In the course of the eighteenth century the art of portraiture throughout Europe underwent a remarkable transformation. As the age of Feudalism gave way to Enlightenment the old impersonal precepts of portraiture were replaced by demands for a more individual representation of the sitter. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)