"Put a feather in his (or her) cap..." - twelve be-plumed portraits.

 

Princess Charlotte of Wales, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, by Alfred Edward Chalon, circa 1817-19.

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Gustave Courtois at the age of Thirty-One, by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, 1883.

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Julia, Lady Peel, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1827.

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Self-portrait, by Charles Gleyre, 1834.

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Portrait of an unknown lady with a dog, unknown Polish (?) artist, circa 1780-90s.

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Don Miguel de Castro, Congolese ambassador to the Netherlands, by Jaspar Beckx, circa 1643.

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 Dame aux plumes, by Georges Jacquemotte, circa 1900-10.

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Young Man with a Feather in his Hat, by Corneille de Lyon, circa third quarter of the sixteenth century.

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Portrait of an unknown lady, unknown artist, circa 1830s.

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Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co, Chief of the Pawnees, by Henry Inman, circa 1832-33.

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Maria Cristina of Naples and Sicily, Duchess of Genoa, later Queen of Sardinia, by Giacomo Berger, 1816.

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An Old Man in Military Costume, by Rembrandt, circa 1630-31.

Autoportraits et quelques autres hommes

Self-portrait, by Daniel Mytens, circa 1630.

Portrait d’un artilleur de la garde nationale portant l’Ordre de la Croix de Juillet, attributed to Jean Alaux, 1837.

Self-portrait, by Nikolai Ivanovich Feshin, 1920.

Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, by Louis Tocqué, circa 1750s.

Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

Carlo Ludovico II, King of Etruria, Duke of Lucca, by unknown artist, circa 1824.

René Andreau, by Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, 1895.

Self-portrait, Adelaide Road, by Sir Stanley Spencer, 1939.

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (who was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a silversmith), by Robert Lefèvre, 1822.

Martín Antonio Álvarez de Sotomayor y Soto-Flores, conde de Colomera, by Agustín Esteve, 1798.

Australian soldier James Aloysius Canty, by Damien Parer, 1942.

Self-portrait, by Govaert Teuniszoon Flinck, circa 1643.

Self-portrait, by Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, 1926.

Self-portrait, by Gino Severini, 1909.

 Folke Bäcklund, by Gustaf Reimers, 1915.

George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron, by George Sanders, circa 1807-09.

 The youth in red is thought to be Robert Rushton, who was employed as a valet by Lord Byron from 1808.

Étude pour un apôtre, by Paul Delaroche, 1835.

The young Henry James, photographer unknown, circa 1860s.

Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duke of Saxony, later Léopold 1, King of the Belgians, after George Dawe, circa 1816-17.

The marquis de Lafayette, by Samuel F. B. Morse, 1826.

Self-portrait, by Henry Inman, 1834.

Autoportrait au chapeau, by Maurice Mazo, 1927.

Louis-François Bertin, by Jean-Louis Laneuville, circa 1796-7.

Self-portrait, Agathon Fabergé, 1918.

Courtesy Ralf De Jonge.

William Fraser of Reelig, by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1801.

Portrait of a Young Man, by Max Von Poosch, 1944.

Bao, an Algerian Spahi, by Niels Simonsen, circa 1840s.