Randomly XIII

Self-portrait, by Marc Chagall, 1919.

Lana Turner, circa late 1940s-early 1950s.

Unknown, circa last quarter of the 19th century.

Amarillis Crowning Mirtillo, by Jacob van Loo, circa 1640-60.

Estudio desnudo masculino de Guadalajara, by Librado García "Smarth", circa 1922.

Monks in a monastery courtyard, by Franz Ludwig Catel, 1856.

Self-portrait, by George Frederic Watts, 1879.

Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Gustave Courbet, 1862.

Cover illustration, by Loris Riccio, 1929.

The Parasol, by Richard Edward Miller, 1913.

Waiting for the Sunday Boat, by William Henry Jackson, 1902.

The Grand Duchess Xenia and Princess Irina Yusupova in mourning for the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (their husband and father, respectively), 1933.

Le Chat gourmand crévant une toile pour manger des harengs (trompe-l'oeil with a cat and fish), by Louis-Léopold Boilly, circa 1822.

Jacob's Dream of the Heavenly Ladder, by Domenico Fetti, 1619.

Ménagère (set of flatware), by Salvador Dalí, 1957.

Mary Astor and John Barrymore in "Beau Brummel", 1924.

Lieutenant of the 6e Cuirassiers, circa second half of the 19th century.

Young Man with a Sword, Max Švabinský, 1896.

Unknown, circa late 19th-early 20th century. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Unknown, European, circa 1820s.

Burmese "lady boy", by Émile Gsell, circa 1880.

Lithograph after a portrait of John "Gentleman" Jackson, prizefighter and businessman, by Benjamin Marshall, before 1812.

Rendezvous, by Arthur Georg von Ramberg, 1870.

The Hon. Ruth Cable, Lady Benthall, by Glyn Philpot, circa 1935.

Unknown, circa early 20th century. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Winifred Shaw and Dick Powell with Ramon & Rosita (not actually Rosita) in the "Lullaby of Broadway" production number from Gold Diggers of 1935, 1934-35.

Turkish Groom Holding An Arab Stallion, by Carle Vernet, circa first quarter of the 19th century.

James Dean during the filming of East of Eden, 1954.

Fashion plate, December 1787.

Zofia Potocka, née Branicka, by Giuseppe Molteni, circa 1830.

Alice Vronska and Konstantin Alperov - "Vronska and Alperoff" - shipboard, circa 1924-25.

A Shepherd Boy, Franz von Lenbach, 1860.

Daguerreotype by Gustav Oehme, circa 1845.

New York, New York: waiting for trains at Pennsylvania Station, by Marjory Collins, 1942.

Probably Pauline de Chauvigny, duchesse d'Aumont, by François Dumont, 1794.

Venus Consoling Cupid Stung by a Bee, Benjamin West, circa 1802.

Opium smokers, by Lai Afong, circa 1880. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Szidónia Deák, by Alajos Györgyi Giergl, 1861.

Unknown, circa 1860s. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

The Artist's Bedroom in St. Petersburg, by Konstantin Somov, Paris, 1932.

Unknown, circa late 19th-early 20th century. Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Saint Sebastian, by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1623.

Self-portrait, by Rita Angus (signed "Rita Cook", her married name at the time), 1936.

Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages, by Paris Bordone, circa 1530.

The portrait of his wife - paintings by Robert Fagan

The artist's first wife, Anna Maria Ferri, circa 1790-92. (One of his first portraits, and not actually entirely finished; note the hands.)

Robert Fagan (circa 1761, London - 26 August 1816, Rome), English artist, archeologist, and art dealer, resident in Italy. The son of an Irish banker, in 1781 he was enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools. But he soon left England for the continent, traveling to France and Italy, before settling in Rome in 1784. In 1790 he married seventeen-year-old Anna Maria Aloisia Rosa Ferri, whose father was in the employ of a Roman cardinal; Fagan, always known for his extravagance and ill-mannered behavior, was apparently very "hard up" at the time of his marriage. The couple's daughter, Esther Maria, or Estina, was born two years later, but the marriage was evidently an unhappy one. Fagan worked as a portraitist, mostly for those on the "Grand Tour", but also as a dealer, illegally exporting large numbers of antiquities and Old Masters, while building up his own personal collection. The French occupation of Rome in 1798 imposed an immense strain upon his family life, a strain which is believed to have been the cause of his wife's increasing ill health; she died in August 1800.

The artist with his second wife, Maria Flajani, 1803.

Six months later Fagan remarried, to another young Italian woman, Maria Ludovica Flajani, daughter of the Pope's physician, with whom he had two further children. In 1809, while residing in Palermo, he was appointed consul general for Sicily and Malta. But over the next few years he was dogged by increasing financial problems. In 1815 he returned briefly to England, before moving back to Rome the following year where, at the age of fifty-five, he committed suicide by jumping from a window. His young widow sold off his collection of antiquities to the Vatican museums.

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This unfinished sketch, circa 1794, depicts the artist's daughter, Esther Maria/Estina (1792-1859), the child of his first marriage, held by her nurse before an Italianate landscape. In August of 1809, Estina married William Baker, heir to the estate of Bayfordbury, Hertfordshire.