Randomly IX

Mary Ruthven, his wife, by Anthony van Dyck, 1639.

Vanitas, by Pietro Negri, 1662.

Unknown, ND.

Elegante au sofa, by Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1895.

Unknown, ND.

Oedipus confronting the Sphinx, by François-Xavier Fabre, 1806.

Nadezhda Polovtseva, by Charles François Jalabert, circa 1870s.

Giuseppa Carcano, Marchesa di Visconti di Borgorato, by Baron Gérard, 1810.

Unknown, ND.

The King's State Bedchamber, Windsor Castle, by James Roberts, 1855. (Decorated for the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French.)

María Josefa Amalia of Saxony, Queen of Spain, by Vicente López y Portaña, 1828.
(By the slight discoloration in the paint surface, it's apparent that this was at one time framed as an oval.)

Portrait of a Lady, by François Boucher, circa 1760-70.

"Portrait of Fersen (?)", by Franz Krüger, 1850.

Unknown, ND. (Courtesy Ralf de Jonge.)

Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough, by Sir William Ross, circa 1825-30.

Portrait of Mrs J., by Józef Męcina-Krzesz, 1912.

Alexander Filippovich Kokorinov, by Dmitry Levitsky, 1769.

Reference Nude, by sculptor Jacques de Lalaing, circa 1880s-90s.

Unknown, ND.

Triple portrait of mignons of Henri III, by Lucas de Heere, circa 1570. (For the record, these are all young men.)

The coffins of Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and two of her children, in the Mausoleum at Darmstadt, by  Heinrich Reinhard Kroh, 1879.

Unknown, circa 1850. (Sisters...?)

Four African American women at Atlanta University, Georgia, 1899.

Etude d'homme allongé sur une balustrade, by Carolus-Duran,1875.

Study of a Swimmer, by J. C. Leyendecker, circa first quarter of the twentieth century.

Unknown, circa 1920s.

The Maid, by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, 1862.

Portrait of a young lady with a white veil, French School, circa 1800.

Study of a man, by Anton Ažbe, 1886.

HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden, unknown photographer, 1934.

Sarah Siddons, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1804.

Johanna Sacco as Medea, by Joseph Hickel, 1786.

Narcissus, by Jan Cossiers, 1636-38.

Francis George “Kicho” Harrison, by George Platt Lynes, 1940.

Three portraits by Vicente López y Portaña

Vicente López y Portaña (September 19, 1772, Valencia – July 22, 1850, Madrid), the premier Spanish portrait painter of his time.  Both of his sons were also portrait painters.  See also here.

María Cristina de Borbón-Dos Sicilias, reina de España, 1830.

Antonio Ugarte y su esposa, María Antonia Larrazábal, 1833.

Señora Delicado de Imaz, 1832-33.

 The precise, thickly painted - even muscular - detail is extraordinary.

Maria Isabel de Bragança, Infanta of Portugal, Queen of Spain - by Vicente López y Portaña, circa 1816-18

Maria Isabel Francisca de Bragança (19 May 1797 – 26 December 1818), Infanta of Portugal, Queen of Spain as the second wife of Ferdinand VII.  She was the major force behind the founding of what came to be the Museo del Prado.  She died, horrifically, in childbirth at the age of twenty-one, a year before the museum opened to the public.

"Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado" by Bernardo López y Piquer (1799-1874), 1829.  This portrait was painted eleven years after the queen's 
death, and commemorates her important involvement in the founding the Museo del Prado.  The artist obviously used the portrait by López y Portaña -  
who was López y Piquer's father - as the model for the deceased queen.