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Classic Portrait Drawings

A collection of historical portrait sketches featuring figures from various artistic periods, emphasizing subtle details and delicate linework.

Bliżej Kultury Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869 1907)
Bliżej Kultury Wyspiański, Stanisław (1869 1907)
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Sketch by Hans Holbein the Younger; Portrait of an Unknown Man; Colour Illustration;
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Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695-1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Young Male Shearing a Sheep, undated. Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.
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Portrait of the mother of Ostade Adriaen van Ostade (1610-1685). Pieter Outs or Oets (1720-1780 / 1790). Portrait of Ostade's mother. Black way, 17th century
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Caspar David Friedrich, Friedrich, Caspar David
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Portrait of the heir, an actor of the royal palace. Emile-Antoine Bayard (1837-1891). Portrait of the heir, an actor of the royal palace. 1880. Black pencil enhanced with white gouache on bluish paper chin�.
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Henry Home Kames, Lord Kames, (born 1696 at Kames House, Berwickshire, died 27 December 1782) was a Scottish lawyer and philosopher, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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Pencil drawing by Josef von Führich created between 1827 and 1829 depicting Imdunis Francisco Massimini, focusing on figure, posture, and expression.
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Gustave Jean Jacquet, Head of a Woman with a Hat Shaped Like a Turban, 1856-1909, black and white chalk on paper.
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Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of a young man with red cap, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. .
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Henry Bunbury Esq-r., Youngest Son of the late Sir William Bunbury ca. 1769 Thomas Blackmore Blackmore's print is based on a portrait by Reynolds and shows the subject at the age of fifteen or sixteen, holding a portfolio in a landscape (the related painting of 1765-66 is untraced). Bunbury's artistic gifts were evident from youth, as he amused fellow students with humorous drawings at Westminster School, London, then at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. As the younger son of Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet, Bunbury's income as an adult came mostly from serving the Duke of York as equerry. He showed drawings at the Royal Academy between 1770 and 1806 as an "honorary exhibitor"-his submissions were not for sale-and is remembered for many literary and satirical designs turned into prints by professional etchers.. Henry Bunbury Esq-r., Youngest Son of the late Sir William Bunbury. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723-1792 London). ca. 1769. Mezzotint. Thomas Blackmore (Bri
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Self-Portrait, Jonathan Richardson the Elder, 1667-1745, British, undated, Black chalk and white chalk on medium, slighlty textured, blue laid paper, Sheet: 16 3/8 × 11 3/8 inches (41.6 × 28.9 cm), portrait
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Portret Van Giovanni Costa, Marco Comirato, 1810 - 1869 print Italy paper engraving historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of artist
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Portrait of the painter Frederik Hendricksz. Pious, standing in front of a painter's easel, after: Frederik Hendricksz. Vroom, draughtsman: anonymous, 1610 - 1667, parchment (animal material), h 207 mm × w 178 mm
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'Portrait of Vladimir Papmel'. Russia, St Petersburg, 1882. Dimensions: diam. 9,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Mikhail Vrubel.
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Bertall (Charles Albert d'Arnoux, dit, 1820-1882). Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French writer. Print. Paris, Balzac house. 33625-7 Arms, writer, French writer, print, hand, portrait, torso
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Verbiest, Ferdinand .
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Portraits of Jacobus Buys, Izaak Schmidt and Jurriaan Andriessen, Jacob Ernst Marcus, After Hendrik Willem Caspari, 1812 print Portraits of the artists Jacobus Buys, Izaak Schmidt and Jurriaan Andriessen. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving
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Riedel, Johann Gottlieb.
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Image reproduction: Anton Graff (1736-1813), portrait of Daniel Chodowiecki, painter, 1800/1801; around 1890 (1885-00-00-1895-00-00);Chodowiecki, Daniel Mikołaj (1726-1801), Chodowiecki, Daniel Mikołaj (1726-1801)-iconography, graff, Anton (1736-1813)-reproduction, Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, painting, German painting, painters , glasses, Poland (culture), portraits, portraits of artists, Men's Portrales
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Dürer, Albrecht.
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'Caricature Head of an Abbot'. Italy, 1746. Dimensions: 10,5x7,4 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: PIER LEONE GHEZZI.
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Texelse Vrouw, Jacob Perkois, 1766 - 1804 drawing paper. pencil Texel
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Mark Akenside (born 9 November 1721 in Newcastle upon Tyne, died 23 June 1770 in London) was an English physician, poet and author of several medical works, colored woodcut from Crabbe's Historical Dictionary from 1825, Historical, digital reproduction.
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Portrait de Femme. Edgar Degas (1834-1917). Pastel on paper laid on paper. Drawn 1881-1885. 30.7 x 23.5cm
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Selbstbildnis Inv,-Nr,
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Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap 1765-1768 England. Joseph Wright, a leading artist of the eighteenth century, spent most of his life in the central Midlands town of Derby, where he ran a successful portrait-painting practice. His best work in this vein portrays solid middle-class citizens, much like himself, with a keen perceptiveness of both character and physical appearance. Throughout his career, Wright was preoccupied with the evocative effects of light, specifically those produced by a single light source such as a candle, and the resulting play of shadows. Influenced by the powerful chiaroscuro of the superb mezzotints of Thomas Frye, a contemporary printmaker, Wright produced a number of dramatically lit self-portraits in oil, charcoal, and black-and-white pastel during the mid-1760s. Depicting himself in nocturnal lighting, wearing an exotic black hat, the artist evoked a time-honored tradition in portraiture the deeply pensive artist who confronts himself and the viewer with a quie
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Bust of a dark man, Wallerant Vaillant, 1658 - 1677 print paper Africans
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Masaniello .