A posthumous portrait of young Wijkman accompanied the donation.
The two effigies are well modelled, and there can be no doubt the head of the king is a fine posthumous portrait.
Consequently, some of the miniatures were posthumous portraits, or emblems of mourning.
He was commissioned to paint posthumous portraits of alumni and faculty who had died in battle during the Civil War.
From these two inscriptions the panel is generally accepted as being a posthumous portrait.
First Ladies, too, were featured in posthumous portraits.
His son James, who represented the family, contributed 38 pictures to the show, including a posthumous 1967 portrait of President Kennedy.
Another example of an engraving is his often reproduced 1619 posthumous portrait of the playwright Bredero.
Frequently life size, they were fashionable as posthumous portraits and memorials.