Triples - twelve portraits of three

Three brothers, by József Czauczik, 1828.

George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth, and brother William, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1780-81. The Earl and Countess are wearing their coronation robes.

Unknown. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Moritz Christian, Reichsgraf von Fries, his wife Maria Theresia Josepha, and their son Moritz, by François Gérard, 1805.

The 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, the 2nd Earl of Burlington, and the 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, by Michael Dahl, circa 1690-1700.

Jaromír Funke, Josef Sudek, Adolf Schneeberger, by Adolf Schneeberger, 1925.

La famille Bergeret de Grandcourt, by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, circa 1785.

Unknown, by George Hartwell, circa 1850.

Queen Alexandra with her daughters, Princess Victoria of Wales and Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, 1905.

Triple Portrait (Sister and Brothers), by Károly Ferenczy, 1911.

The daughters of Johann Julius von Vieth und Golßenau and his wife Johanna Juliane, née Krieg von Bellicken, by Anton Graff , circa 1775.

Unknown, tintype, circa 1890.

The calculated pose - gestural male portraits

Portrait of a Young Man (thought to be a self portrait), by Michiel Sweerts, 1656.

History shows us that, when posing for his portrait, the male is quite as likely as his female counterpart to strike the telling attitude, to make a calculated declaration of self for posterity. Whether it reads as pompously aggressive, "artistic", elegantly pensive, seignorial, or self-consciously "natural", it all comes down to a personal propaganda.

Portrait of a Young Nobleman in Hunting Dress, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1730.

Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino, circa 1530s.

Portrait of a Man in Armour (French Marshal), by Sébastien Bourdon, circa 1760s.

James II when Duke of York, by Sir Peter Lely, circa 1665-70.

John Bours, by John Singleton Copley, 1763.

A Portrait of a Man in Armour, by Jacopo Bassano, circa 1560.

Unknown, circa 16th century.

François Boucher, by Gustaf Lundberg, 1741.

Count Kirill Razumovsky, by Jean-Louis Tocqué, 1758.

The Artist in His Museum, by Charles Willson Peale, 1822.

Self-Portrait (Man with Leather Belt), by Gustave Courbet, 1845-46.

Self-Portrait, by Anthony Van Dyck, 1634.

Self-portrait, by Paulus Moreelse, circa 1630-34.

Self-Portrait, by Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1734.

Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782.

Les dames en rose, les dames en rouge

Self-portrait, Katarina Ivanovic, circa 1830s.

Marie-Anne de Châteauneuf - mademoiselle Duclos - actress, in the role of Ariane, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1712.

 Mary Stuart, the Princess Royal, studio of Gerrit van Honthorst, circa 1647.

Lavinia Fenton, actress, by George Knapton (?), circa 1739.

Lady Anne Montagu, by Daniël Mijtens, 1626.

 Mrs. Thomas Edwards Freeman, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, circa 1778.

Louise Françoise, duchesse de Bourbon, "mademoiselle de Nantes", by François de Troy, circa 1688-93.

Augusta, Princess of Wales, by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1742.

Mademoiselle Louise Jacquet, actress, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1748-52.

Portrait of a Woman, by Juan Carreño de Miranda, circa 1650-70.

Portrait of a Woman (Balia dei Medici?), by Paris Bordone, circa 1545.

Queen Isabel II of Spain, unknown painter, 1858.

Princess Margarita Ivanovna Dolgorukaya, by Vladimir Borovikovsky, 1811.

Portrait of a Lady, by Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, circa late 1780s.

Randomly IV

Marion Davies, in "Beverly of Graustark", 1926.

Jean Alut l'ainé, miniature by Pierre Chasselat, circa 1780s.

Reservoir at Villa Falconieri, Frascati, by Maxfield Parrish, 1903.

Unknown, nd.

David Garrick and Eva Maria Garrick, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1772-73.

Comte Étienne de Beaumont and his wife Edith, dressed in costumes of the comte's design, 1920s.

Erato, Muse of Lyric Poetry and Cupid, by Charles Meynier, 1798-1800.

Unknown, nd.

Alexander II after his assassination, by Konstantin Makovsky, 1881.
(The Tsar had been - literally - blown up; it would prove difficult to arrange his corpse in a presentable manner.)

Garden Steps Leading to the Artist's Studio on Blegdammen, by Christen Købke, circa 1845.

Figure study, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, nd.

 A Woodland Bather, by Henry Scott Tuke, before 1893.

Models, circa 1915.

An Elegant Figure Playing a Guitar at a Balustrade With a Macaw, by Jan Josef Horemans the Elder, circa early 18th century.

Flora, by Alexander Roslin, 1755.

Miniature by Louis-Lié Périn-Salbreux, circa 1790.

Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth, photograph by Angus McBean, 1955.

Parc de St. Cloud, by Constant Troyon, circa 1830s.

Sir Arthur Sykes, 7th Baronet Sledmere, by Simon Elwes, 1936.

Baron Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov, by Alexander Varnek, 1814.
(If the date is correct, the portrait would have been completed three years after Stroganov's death.)