Hanging on one wall were several portraits of successful-looking men that Tom had recently ... ‘You should look so good.' "Some men refuse to be painted. But most of them are interested.

A tiny portrait of the man a young Jane Austen ... She referred to him in a letter as 'a gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man' and found only one fault with him - 'his morning coat ...

portraits of men have focused on their status rather than their looks. Detail from the self portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, circa 1640, the centrepiece of the Looking Good exhibition at SNPG ...

It is not iconoclastic to say so, nor does it imply the curator was wrong to include them: Man Ray earned a very good living ... A 1923 portrait of Stravinsky – desperately looking skywards ...