Twenty-eight gentlemen - a selection of portraits and self-portraits

 

Self-portrait, by Joseph Highmore, 1747.

Self-portrait at the age of twenty, by Sir David Wilkie, between 1804 and 1805.

Self-portrait, by George Hendrik Breitner, 1882.

French School, circa 1780s.

Ignazio Degotti, scenographer of the Paris Opéra, miniature by Ferdinando Quaglia, 1812.

Jules Richemont, by Gustave Caillebotte, 1879.

Count Sergei Platonovich Zubov, by Giovanni Boldini, 1913.

"Black Hunter" - portrait of David Lawrence, by Andrew Wyeth, 1938.

The poet Janko Lavrin, by Boris Kustodiev, 1909.

The sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, by Giovanni Battista Moroni, 1552.

Raymond de Verninac, by Henri-François Riesener, circa 1822-25.

Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1762.

Self-portrait, by Eliseu Visconti, circa 1900.

Portrait of a man with glasses, attributed to Rembrandt Peale or French School, circa 1820s.   

Alfonso XIII, by Ramón Casas y Carbó, 1904.

Lord Berners (Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners), by Rex Whistler, 1924.

The sculptor Tommaso Bandini, cousin of the artist, by Enrico Bandini, circa 1835.

Portrait of a man, called "Il Condottiere", possibly Sforza Maria Sforza, by Antonello da Messina,  circa 1475.

Selbstbildnis im Gruenen (self-portrait in the green), by Siegfried von Leth, 1906.

 Portrait of a gentleman, Anthonis Mor, circa 1570.

Matreier Bub (boy from Matrei), by Franz Eichhorst, circa 1920s.

Leo Ornstein at the Piano, by Leon Kroll, 1918.

 John, Lord Mountstuart, later 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Bute, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1763.

Camillo Borghese (Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla), by François Gérard, circa 1810.

Richard Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1819.

Presumed Portrait of Jean André Soubry, by Nicolas de Largillière, circa 1729.

The painter Eduard Bendemann, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1837.

Francis Owen in van Dyck costume, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, 1773.

In einem Moment der Besinnung - eight portraits by Franz Eybl

 

Dame in blauem Kleid, 1839.

Johann Josef Rudolf von Arthaber, the elder son of Rudolf von Arthaber, 1845. **

 Porträt einer älteren Dame mit Spitzenhaube und rosa Bändern, 1849.

 Bildnis eines Knaben, 1845.

 Anna Mannsfeld, née Mayer, 1837.

Der Maler Franz Wipplinger, das Miniaturporträt seiner verstorbenen Schwester betrachtend, 1833.

This painting within a painting is, as the title states, a portrait of Wipplinger's late sister.

 Damenbildnis, circa 1830-1840.

Sitzender Armenier, 1831.

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Franz Eybl (1 April 1806, Vienna - 29 April 1880, Vienna), Austrian painter. Born in the Viennese suburb of Gumpendorf, by 1816, at the age of ten, he had already entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, studying under Josef Klieber and Josef Mössmer. Between 1820 and 1823 he studied under Johann Baptist von Lampi and Franz Caucig, reproducing antique statues and casts. Until 1828 he studied history painting under Johann Peter Krafft, and in 1825 he won the Academy's Gundel-Prize, followed in 1828 by the Lampi Prize. He married in 1830 and, thirteen years later, became a member of the Academy. After 1840 his work was much influenced by that of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. He devoted himself to landscape painting, genre works, and history painting, also producing more than four hundred lithographic portraits. But he is now best remembered as one of the most important portrait painters of nineteenth century Austria, alongside Friedrich von Amerling and Waldmüller. He died at the age of seventy-four and was buried at Vienna's famous Zentralfriedhof among the graves of such notable figure as Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert.

Self-portrait, 1840.

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** Eight years earlier, Johann Josef Rudolf von Arthaber featured in Amerling's celebrated portrait of merchant and art collector Rudolf von Arthaber and his three children, the family posed with a portrait of Arthaber's deceased wife, the children's mother. Young Rudolf is shown seated in the foreground at his father's feet; his two younger siblings were Emilie and Gustav.

Rudolf von Arthaber und seine Kinder Rudolf, Emilie und Gustav betrachten das Porträt ihrer toten Mutter, 1837.