Sixteen women - a selection of portraits

 

A young Kenyan woman holding her pet deer in Mombasa, by Underwood and Underwood, 1909.

 Infanta Ana de Jesús María de Braganza, Marchioness of Loulé, by Gillot Saint-Èvre, 1832.

The War Widow / Andromache, by Gerald Brockhurst, circa 1923.

Queen Mary of Modena, consort of King James II and VII, studio of Peter Lely, 1678.

Unknown woman, by Alexei Tyranov, circa 1840s.

 Rosine Fischler, Couintess Treuberg, née Edle von Poschinger, by Wilhelm Leibl,1877-78.

Portrait d'une élégante dame, by Simon-Bernard Lenoir.
The painting is signed and dated; the auction house that sold the portrait in 2016 interprets the date as 1756, but I think it more likely to be circa 1770.

New Orleans creole woman, by François Fleischbein, 1837.

Éléonore Louise Le Gendre de Berville, marquise du Hallay-Coëtquen, by Jean-Marc Nattier, 1751.

Wedding portrait of Maria Sophie, future Queen of Two Sicilies, née Duchess in Bavaria, 1859. The portrait is signed, but the signature is not decipherable. 

Cecily Manners, Countess of Rutland, by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, circa 1623-13.

A Swedish bride, circa 1880s.

Miniature of the artist's wife, née Marie-Anne Révérend, by Antoine Vestier, circa 1780.

Woman sketching in a landscape, by Barthélemy Vieillevoye, circa 1820s.

Margarethe, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, née Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, circa 1894.

Portrait of a lady reading, Ivan Kramskoi, circa 1881.

Serious English faces - portraits by John Greenhill

Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke, circa mid-1670s. (Detail.)

John Greenhill (circa 1644, Salisbury – 19 May 1676, London), English portrait painter. Interested in art from an early age, in about 1662 he moved to London in order to study. He became a pupil of Sir Peter Lely, and also carefully studied and copied the late van Dyck's portraits; it is said that his rapidly progressing skill aroused Lely's jealousy. He married early and was at first industrious and increasingly successful. But he had a pronounced taste for the theater and, living in Covent Garden, he began to associate with free-living theatrical types, and fell into "irregular habits". In May of 1676, while returning from a tavern in a drunken state, he fell into the gutter. Carried to his lodgings, he died the same night. He left a widow and family, to whom Lely gave an annuity. There's disagreement as to the date of his birth, but he was probably about thirty-two.

The artist, circa 1665.

Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as Lucy Sherman, no date.

Thomas Weedon, circa 1675.

Sir Anthony Deane, no date.

Lady Twisden, 1676.

William Cartwright, circa mid-1660s.

 Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt (attributed to Greenhill), no date.

Portrait of a Lady as a Shepherdess, circa 1665.

James, Duke of York, later James II, early 1660s. (This portrait definitely appears to be unfinished.)

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, circa 1672-73.

Mrs. Jane Cartwright, circa mid-1660s.

John Locke, circa 1672-76.