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Showing posts with label Thomas Gainsborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Gainsborough. Show all posts

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Maybe it is, but it's not thicker than paint - portraits of siblings

 
Siblings, by George Romney, circa 1772-73.
Five children of the Budd family, unknown artist, circa 1818.
Maximilian, Sophie, and Ernst, the children of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, unknown artist, 1908.
John Oscar Kent and Sarah Eliza Kent, by S. L. Gerry, 1844.
Master John Truman Villebois and his brother Henry Villebois, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783.
 Siblings, by Harrington Mann, 1926.
Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos, children of the artist, by Cornelis de Vos, circa 1622.
British school, circa 1810-25.
Siblings with goldfinch and chicks, by J. M. Combelle, 1794.
The Plymouth siblings as Amor and Psyche, by Angelica Kauffmann, 1795.
Philipp IV of Spain with his sister Infanta Anna, by Bartolomé González y Serrano, 1612.
Het gestoorde pianospel (Interrupted Piano Practice), by Willem Bartel van der Kooi, 1813.
Anders and Margaret Eek, by Knut Ekwall, before 1912.
Two boys said to be children of the Poulett family of Hinton St. George, English School, 1600.
 Siblings, by José Cruz Herrera, 1928.
Unknown, unknown artist, 1874.
The Shelly Children, John and Charlotte Anne, by William Beechey, circa 1771-1772.
British school, circa 1800-20.
Four unknown siblings with their dog, attributed to Salomon Mesdach, 1627.
Auguste, Eugénie, and Marie of Württenberg, the daughters of Count Wilhelm of Württenberg, later Duke of Urach, by his first wife, unknown artist, circa 1852.
Sisters, by Wilfred Gabriel De Glehn, 1927.
Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth children, unidentified artist active in New Orleans, circa 1848.
The portrait of the boy is believed to be posthumous.
Edward and Sarah Rutter, by Joshua Johnson, 1805.
Siblings, by Louis Appian, 1893.
Harold and Eric Molson, sons of J. Elsdale Molson, by Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, circa 1902.
Siblings, by Olga Boznańska, 1898.
Charles and Henry Brandon, sons of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Catherine Willoughby, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541.
Four siblings, unknown artist, circa 1840.
Brothers, by Lydia Field Emmet, 1909.
Brothers Hendrick, Johannes, and Simon, by Thomas de Keyser, circa 1627-32.
Two sisters, by Carl Ludwig Johann Christinek, 1772.
The children of Captain R. D. Pritchard, by Philip August Gaugain, 1827.
Geschwister im Schlosspark (Siblings in the Castle Park), by Heinrich Lauenstein, 1888.



Sunday, November 19, 2023

Les dames du dix-huitième - selected portraits

 
Portrait presumed to be Miss Buchanan, English School, circa 1790.
Maria Fortunata d'Este, princesse de Conti, by Dominique Vivant Denon, circa 1780.
Unfinished portrait of Princess Sofia Albertina of Sweden, by Lorens Pasch the Younger, 1768.
Portrait of a lady said to be madame de Bellegarde, circle of Vigée Le Brun, Circa 1790.
Mrs. Paul Cobb Methuen, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1776-1777.
Portrait d'une dame de qualité, studio of Antoine Vestier, circa 1778.
Miss Theophila Offy Palmer, the future Mrs. Gwatkin, a portrait believed to be the work of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s sister, Frances Fanny Reynolds, circa 1770s.
The duchesse d'Aiguillon, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, 1790.
Mary Christina Conquest, Lady Arundell of Wardour, in coronation robes, by George Romney, circa 1770.
 Madame Sophie de France, daughter of Louis XV, by Jean-Étienne Liotard, circa 1750-51.
Maria Geronima Pellegrina "Lilla" Cambiaso and her daughter Caterina, by Anton Von Maron, 1792.
The depiction of the drapery is perfection, the detail of the two shoes, charming.
The artist's wife, by François-Xavier Fabre, circa 1790s.
The courtesan Kitty Fisher, by Nathaniel Hone, 1765.
The wonderful addition of the cat and fishbowl is a cheeky reference to the name of the sitter.
 Charlotte Herts, wife of Charles-François de Casteele, by Nicolas-Guy Brenet, 1770.
Portrait of a young woman, by Marie-Geneviève Navarre, 1774.