ABSTRACT
During the nineteenth century, key developments in the world of art contributed to literature. Specifically, portraiture artists, instead of saying that their paintings of real people were objective representations, unapologetically claimed that they were using their biographical subjects in order to give viewers their own vision of life and the world. The Irish authors Oscar Wilde and George Moore directly acknowledge their debt to portraiture painters, and I clarify how the aesthetic development in the world of art contributed significantly to the formation of biofiction.
