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| Captain Winfield Burrows Sifton, by Philip de László, 1916. | 
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| "Su Majestad el Rey Don Alfonso XIII Contemplando Madrid", circa 1920s. | 
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| Rudolph Valentino, circa 1921. | 
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| Thomas Taylour, Viscount Headford, later Earl of Bective and 1st Marquess of Headfort, by Pompeo Batoni, 1782. | 
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| Memorial card, 1912. | 
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| "A Kornilovite" [WWI/Russian Revolution era soldier], by Saida Afonina, 1994. | 
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| Soldier, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, circa 1560. | 
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| Portrait of Kahn, by Alexander Golovin, 1920. | 
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| Unknown, circa late nineteenth-early twentieth century. | 
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| Ardalion Petrovich Novosiltsev, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, by Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, 1807. | 
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| Man with the Cat [Henry Sturgis Drinker], by Cecilia Beaux, 1898. | 
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| Actor Martin Harvey in period costume, 1899. (Two images.) | 
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| Amaury-François-Guillaume, marquis de la Moussaye, vicomte de Saint-Quetas, Saint-Denoual, etc., by Jean Joseph Vaudechamp, 1830. | 
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| Portrait of a Man in Armor, by Paris Bordone, circa 1535-40. | 
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| Unknown, courtesy of Ralf De Jonge "Os Jovens Phidias". | 
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| Captain Peter Rainier (in India at the age of twenty-one), by Thomas Hickey, 1806. | 
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| "Man of science", unknown artist - the damaged signature reads "M[ ]anz", 1839. | 
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| William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr. at the age of twenty-four, 1902. | 
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| Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia, by Joachim Zivert (?), 1615. | 
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| Karl Bernhard, prinz von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, by Rudolf Friedrich Carl Suhrlandt, 1812. | 
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| Vaslav Nijinsky, circa 1913. | 
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| Portrait of a Bavarian man, by Anton Ažbe, 1889. | 
 

 
 
Men's fashions are so boring anymore; just look at these!
ReplyDeleteMen! Bravo! Men!
ReplyDeleteThe dress of the era did poor King Alfonso no favors; the Spanish Hapsburgs really need something more dramatic to offset that bone structure.
ReplyDeleteBut now I'm off - apparently I have to learn something about Kornilovism and why its adherents are so dashing...
Wonderful collection! Thank you! I especially liked the Ground Tour portrait by Batoni of Thomas Taylour, Viscount Headford. The temple seen through the window is probably the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. I can't get enough of these Grand Tour portraits. :-)
ReplyDeleteI, too, really love all of Batoni's wonderful "Inglesi in Italia". : )
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