"Put a feather in his (or her) cap..." - twelve be-plumed portraits.

 

Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, by Alfred Edward Chalon, circa 1817-19.

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Gustave Courtois at the age of Thirty-One, by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1883.

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Julia, Lady Peel, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1827.

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Self-portrait, by Charles Gleyre, 1834.

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Portrait of an unknown lady with a dog, unknown Polish (?) artist, circa 1780-90s.

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Don Miguel de Castro, Congolese ambassador to the Netherlands, by Jaspar Beckx, circa 1643.

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 Dame aux plumes, by Georges Jacquemotte, circa 1900-10.

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Young Man with a Feather in his Hat, by Corneille de Lyon, circa third quarter of the sixteenth century.

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Portrait of an unknown lady, unknown artist, circa 1830s.

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Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co, Chief of the Pawnees, by Henry Inman, circa 1832-33.

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Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Duchess of Genoa, later Queen of Sardinia, by Giacomo Berger, 1816.

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An Old Man in Military Costume, by Rembrandt, circa 1630-31.