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.

"A study in contrasts" - two portraits, two ladies prominent in their respective milieux

 

Cäcilie, Baroness von Eskeles, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1832.

Alice Regnault, by Giovanni Boldini, 1880.

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Cäcilie, Baroness von Eskeles, née Zippora Itzig (1760-1836), a leading Viennese salonnière at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Alice Regnault (née Augustine-Alexandrine Toulet; 5 February 1849 - 12 July 1931), French actress and courtesan.

The power in turning away - portraits of the female profile

 

Eugénie Ritter, by Benjamin-Constant, 1903. 

Une femme de chez nous au cheveux crépus (A local woman with curly hair), by Takou D’Assié, circa 2020.

Portrait of a Lady in Red, Florentine School, circa 1460-70.

Portrait of Woman Turned, by Coolidge Ozaki, circa 1942-45.

The Orchid, by Fujishima Takeji, 1926.

Woman or goddess, nicknamed “La Parisienne”, from the western wing of the palace at Knossos, circa 1350 BCE.

Portrait of a Woman in Profile, Turned to the Left, by William Sommer, 1890.

Study of the Head of a Young Woman in Profile, by Matthijs Maris, 1855.

Medallion, double portrait of the artist and her lover Nesta Obermer, also called the "YouWe" painting, by Gluck, 1936.

Profile Portrait of a Lady, American School, circa 1835-40.

Tomb wall depicting Queen Nefertari, consort of Rameses II, circa 1298-1235 BCE.

Portrait Study in Profile, by Marion L. Pooke, circa 1911.

Head in Profile, by Emil Nolde, 1919.

Profilo di donna, by Charles Lefèbvre, nineteenth century.

Profile Portrait of a Woman to the Left, unknown pastellist, circa 1800-20.

Supposed posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Herculaneum, circa first century AD.

Profile of an Italian Woman by Mary Cassatt, 1873.

Portrait of a Young Woman, by Sofonisba Anguissola, circa 1580s.

A Young Woman, by Friedrich von Amerling, 1834.

Noia Tangerina (Girl from Tangiers), by Josep Tapiró i Baró, circa 1900-10.

Portrait of a Young Girl, by Philip Wilson Steer, 1932.

Classical Head in Profile, by William Hoare, circa second half of the eighteenth century.

Profil de femme au chignon (Profile of a woman with a chignon), by Pablo Picasso, 1904.

Nanna, Profile to Right, by Anselm Feuerbach, 1864.

Profile of a Blonde Woman on a Blue Background, by Francis Picabia, circa 1941-1942.

Portrait of Lady Vivien, by Konstantin Makovsky, 1900.

Portrait of a Lady in Profile, by Carel Fabritius, 1654.

Head of a Woman Seen in Profile, by Bartolomeo Passarotti, circa second half of the sixteenth century.

Profile of a Woman, by Fujishima Takeji, 1926-27.

Profile of a Young Woman, by Giovanni Boldini, circa 1880s (?).

Portrait of a Young Woman in Profile with a Mask in her Right Hand, by Giambattista Piazzetta, circa 1720-30.

Porträtt av Ung Kvinna i profil (Portrait of young woman in profile), by Emilie Mundt, circa 1880s.

Profile Portrait of a Young Lady, by Piero del Pollaiuolo, circa 1465.

Young Girl in Profile, by Alexei Alexeevich Harlamoff, circa 1880s.

Blackfoot Woman, by Joseph Henry Sharp, 1905.

Profile of a woman, India, Delhi, circa first half of the nineteenth century.

Rembrandt’s Mother, by Jan Lievens, circa 1629.

Bathsheba, by Philip Wilson Steer, circa 1919-21.

Profile of a Nubian Girl, by Franz Xavier Kosler, before 1905.