将一篇英文短文翻译成中文。
In the centre of the room, clamped to an upright easel, stood the full-length portrait of a young man of extraordinary personal beauty, and in front of it, some little distance away, was sitting the artist himself, Basil Hallward, whose sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures.
房间的中心，立着一架直立的画架，上面夹着一幅全身肖像画，画着一位极其美貌的年轻男子。离画像有一定距离的地方，坐着画家 Basil Hallward，他几年前突然失踪，当时引起了公众的极大兴趣，让人们产生了许多奇怪的猜测。