In 2019, Jacques Louis David’s famed neoclassical portrait of chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife, Marie Anne, was sent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s conservation lab.

Before Sachin Tendulkar, the MCC museum had portraits of Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Kapil Dev, Bishan Singh Bedi and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Throughout her life, Elaine de Kooning greatly enjoyed painting portraits of her friends. When she was living in New York City in the 1950s, her circle included the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Merce ...