For Raeburn could plunge at once through all the constraint and embarrassment of the sitter, and present the face, clear, open, and intelligent as at the most disengaged moments.
雷伯恩能够一下穿透模特的拘谨与窘迫,呈现出那张清朗、坦率而聪慧的脸,仿佛此人正处于最自在的时刻。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Some Portraits by Raeburn —