Or if you were an ambitious painter with an urban clientele clamoring for picturesque idylls to spruce up their parlor walls.

The popularity of photographic portraits helped to push ambitious painters like Degas to seek new ways of portraying people in paint, as with Lepic.

He strikes up a friendship with an ambitious young painter named Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor), who seems to have some personality problems.

Directed by Menno Meyjes, the 2002 film stars John Cusack as a Jewish artist who befriends a Hitler who is a desperately ambitious 30-year-old painter.

These were distributed all over Europe, and often used as patterns by less ambitious painters.

This wildly inventive, richly expressionistic movie imagines Adolf Hitler (Mr. Taylor) as an ambitious young painter in 1918 Munich.

He arrived in Paris from Spain around the turn of the century as a young, ambitious painter out to make a name for himself.

He helps us understand the contradictory political influences with which a young, ambitious painter had to contend.

The young Picasso suggests otherwise: that ambitious painters had various places to look for inspiration.

A much-anticipated, contentious midcareer survey from a coolly ambitious, commercially hot painter whose work can put you off and turn you on at the same time.