Sixteen women - a selection of portraits

 

A young Kenyan woman holding her pet deer in Mombasa, by Underwood and Underwood, 1909.

 Infanta Ana de Jesús María de Braganza, Marchioness of Loulé, by Gillot Saint-Èvre, 1832.

The War Widow / Andromache, by Gerald Brockhurst, circa 1923.

Queen Mary of Modena, consort of King James II and VII, studio of Peter Lely, 1678.

Unknown woman, by Alexei Tyranov, circa 1840s.

 Rosine Fischler, Couintess Treuberg, née Edle von Poschinger, by Wilhelm Leibl,1877-78.

Portrait d'une élégante dame, by Simon-Bernard Lenoir.
The painting is signed and dated; the auction house that sold the portrait in 2016 interprets the date as 1756, but I think it more likely to be circa 1770.

New Orleans creole woman, by François Fleischbein, 1837.

Éléonore Louise Le Gendre de Berville, marquise du Hallay-Coëtquen, by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1751.

Wedding portrait of Maria Sophie, future Queen of Two Sicilies, née Duchess in Bavaria, 1859. The portrait is signed, but the signature is not decipherable. 

Cecily Manners, Countess of Rutland, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, circa 1623-13.

A Swedish bride, circa 1880s.

Miniature of the artist's wife, née Marie-Anne Révérend, by Antoine Vestier, circa 1780.

Woman sketching in a landscape, by Barthélemy Vieillevoye, circa 1820s.

Margarethe, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, née Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, circa 1894.

Portrait of a lady reading, Ivan Kramskoi, circa 1881.