Elegant Female Portraits

Charming oil paintings of women in vintage attire, often set against rich backgrounds and mirrors.

The Glory of Womanhood Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916 British) Oil on canvas

Lady Seated Beside a Looking-Glass. Richard Field Maynard (1875-after 1954). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1915. 84.2 x 68.6cm

Portrait of Dora Fournier-Gabillon by Makart, Hans (1840-1884)/ Vienna Museum/ ca 1879/ Austria/ Oil on wood/ Academic art/ 145,5x93/ Portrait

Josephine at Malmaison', 1800. Josephine Bonaparte (Beauharnais) 1763-1814. Francis Pascal Simon Gerard (1770-1837) French painter. Oil on canvas.

Portrait of Miss Katherine Elizabeth Lewis (d.1961), 1906 John Singer Sargent, Blue, Oil Painting, Portrait, Female, Costume, Hat

The Glory of Womanhood Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1916 British) Oil on canvas

Miss Grace Woodhouse. Dated: 1890. Dimensions: overall: 162.9 x 94 cm (64 1/8 x 37 in.) framed: 177.5 x 108.3 cm (69 7/8 x 42 5/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Singer Sargent.

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman). Date: 1893. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Portrait of Madame Tallien Jean-Bernard Duvivier (Belgian, 1762-1837). Portrait of Madame Tallien, 1806. Oil on canvas, 49 1/2 x 36 3/4 in. (125.7 x 93.3 cm). Jean-Bernard Duvivier emphasized the status of his fashionable sitter with a careful rendering of her furnishings and accessories, including velvet cushions and draperies, an inlaid wood settee, and a rare paisley cashmere shawl. Madame Tallien directly experienced the dramatic events of 1789 to 1804, during the French Revolution and its aftermath. She urged her second husbandJean-Lambert Tallien, a rising political starto end the Reign of Terror, the Revolution’s bloodiest episode. European Art 1806

Thinking, Portrait of Emma Madox Brown, c. 1870. Catherine Madox Brown (British, 1850-1927). Watercolor and gouache on medium-weight wove paper; sight: 52.7 x 36.5 cm (20 3/4 x 14 3/8 in.).

Portrait of Marie Breunig , Fine Art

Juan Antonio Benlliure y Gil / 'After the ball'. 1895. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

A Peaceful Moment. Vicente Palmaroli y Gonzalez (1834-1896). Watercolour and bodycolour on paper. 21.5 x 24.1cm.

Portrait of Miss Iza Duffus Hardy, 1872 By Ford Madox Brown, Chalk, Pastel, PortraitPre-Raphaelite, Female

Autumn. Dated: 1877. Dimensions: overall: 97.1 x 58.9 cm (38 1/4 x 23 3/16 in.) framed: 126.4 x 91.1 x 7.9 cm (49 3/4 x 35 7/8 x 3 1/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Winslow Homer.

MARIA TERESA PICKMAN CON MANTILLA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Eleonora DUSE 1858-1924 Italian actress as young girl by EK

Frederic Leighton, 1830-1896, British, Mrs. James Guthrie, 1865. Oil on canvas.

Portrait of Margaret Perot. oil on canvas. Date: (c. 1908). Museum: HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN.

Francesc Masriera / 'The Bride', 1887. Museum: COLECCION PRIVADA.

Nancy Parsons in Turkish dress. Date/Period: Ca. 1771. Painting. Oil on copper. Height: 572 mm (22.51 in); Width: 476 mm (18.74 in). Author: George Willison.

Standing figure of a woman in a kimono, holding a fan. oil on canvas. Date: 1863-1865. Origin: United States. Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

The Woman with the Glove', 1869. Artist: Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran. Charles Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1837-1917) was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.

Salone with the Head of John the Baptist, by Jan Adam Kruseman, c. 1861, Dutch oil painting. Salome in rich costume carries the platter with the head of the Baptist (BSLOC_2016_2_186)

The virtues: temperance, standing female figure in antiquing clothing, depiction of the virtue of the same name, which is often symbolized by mixing water and wine, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century model, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

Portrait of the Viennese Actress Elise Hofer, Waldmuller, Ferdinand Georg, 1827.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Misia Sert,, 1904, oil on canvas, National Gallery, London, England, Great Britain.

Portrait of a Lady Said to Be the Artist's Wife. Frank Dicksee (1853-1928). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1911. 130 x 104cm.

Portrait of Caterina Bonvicini Cardinale, 1842, by Francesco Hayez (1791-1882), oil on canvas.

Edith; Lady Playfair (Edith Russell); 1884 Oil on canvas John Singer Sargent American; 1856-1925

MONET, Claude (1840-1926). Madame Louis Joachim Gaudibert. 1868. Born Marguerite Marcel (1846-1877), wife of a businessman of Havre. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. MusŽe d'Orsay (Orsay Museum).

Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter. Romanticism. Mariana Waldstein (1763-1808). 9th Marquesa of St. Cruz. 1792. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France.

Retrato de Manuelita Rosas. Date/Period: 1851. Painting. Sobre tela. Height: 1,990 mm (78.34 in); Width: 1,660 mm (65.35 in). Author: Prilidiano Pueyrredon.

Portrait of Józefina née Guzów Amsza; Baka Owow, W Adys 1882 (1882-00-00-1882-00-00);Amszyńska, Józefina (Fl. Ca 1882), Amszyńska, Józefina (Fl. Ca 1882) - iconography, lilacs, gift (provenance), ermine (fur), flowers, pearls, portraits, portraits of en Pieds, portraits en trois -quarts, portraits Women's portraits, portraits in the interior, fans

Painting titled "Misia Sert" (Maria Godebska) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir dated 1904

Zurbarán (Fuente de Cantos, 1598-Madrid, 1664). Saint Casilda (ca. 1630 - 1635). Oil on canvas. 171 x 107 cm. Museum: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN.

MME ROGER JOURDAIN before 1886

Madame Paul Escudier, Louise Lefevre, John Singer Sargent, 1882, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, North America

Laurens, Paul-Albert (n.1870-01-18-D.1934-09-27), theater figure (main title), 1920. Oil on canvas. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

CARMENCITA, by William Merritt Chase, 1890, American painting, oil on canvas. The famous Spanish dancer made her New York debut in 1889 at Niblos Garden. Chase painted her in his studio with flowers at her feet (BSLOC_2017_9_2)

Manuel Domínguez Sánchez / 'Margaret at the Mirror', 1866, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, 185 cm x 102 cm, P06368. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN.

Lady Reid, Alexander Roche (Glasgow, Scotland, 1863 - 1921) c.1908

An Elegant Lady. Charles Leroy-Saint-Aubert (born 1856, active 1888-1907). Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1888. 90.7 x 63.4cm

Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin. Date/Period: 1781 - 1782. Painting. Oil. Height: 91.5 cm (36 in); Width: 71.5 cm (28.1 in). Author: Angelica Kauffman.

fine arts, Romney, George (1734 - 1802), painting, ""Portrait of Miss Constable"", oil on canvas, 1787, Gulbenkian Collection, Lissabon,

Portrait of a Young Woman 1801 Mather Brown American Mather Brown was born in Boston, son of a clockmaker and descendent of several famous New England divines, including Cotton Mather and Increase Mather. After working as an itinerant portraitist in New England, Brown went to London in 1780 to study with Benjamin West. He became a fashionable portraitist in various provincial English cities. The stylishly dressed young girl looks up from her music at the piano, which bears the 1797 label of the London firm of Kirkman.. Portrait of a Young Woman. Mather Brown (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1761-1831 London). American. 1801. Oil on canvas

Portrait of Nancy Oswald Smith, seated half length, in a Red fur-lined coat. Sir William Orpen (1878-1931). Oil on canvas. Painted in 1915. 38 1/4 x 34 1/4in

Italian florist. Axentowicz, Teodor (1859-1938), painter

Jozef Mehoffer (1869-1946). Polish painter. Wife's Portrait (In the Laurel Hall), 1909. Silesian Museum. Katowice. Poland.

Portrait of a woman. nieznany malarz polski, painter

Portrait of Marine Sophie Ary Scheffer (1795-1858). "Portrait of Sophie Marin, Future wife of the artist", oil on canvas. Paris, museum of romantic life.

Louise Howland King (Mrs. Kenyon Cox). Date: 1892. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Painting titled La Loge by Pierre Auguste Renoir dated 1874

Franz-Seraph von Lenbach / 'The Infanta Paz de Borbón'. 1894. Oil on canvas. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Portrait of Mrs. Frank Millet; about 1885-86 Oil on canvas John Singer Sargent American; 1856-1925

Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn; Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German, 1805 - 1873; 1843; Oil on canvas; Unframed: 142.2 x 212.1 cm (56 x 83 1/2 in.), Framed (Display): 182.9 x 251.5 x 16.5 cm (72 x 99 x 6 1/2 in.)

Lady in White. Wilton Lockwood (1862-1914). Oil on canvas. 98.8 x 78.8cm.

Portrait of woman in dress by Leon Bakst, oil on canvas, 1903, 1866-1924, Russia, Alupka , Museum of Architecture and Art, 140x91, 5

Charlotte Corday killing Jean Paul Marat, July 13, 1793. French Revolution, France, 18th century.

Portrait of Princess Charlotte of Prussia by Alexander Pavlovich Briullov, Watercolor on cardboard, 1830s, 1798-1877, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage,

THE LETTER Nicolas Lavreince (Lafrensen Niklas, says). "The letter". Gouache on paper. Paris, Cognacq-Jay Museum.

Dolly Crombie, Robert Brough (Invergordon, Scotland, 1872 - 1905) c. 1896

Spanish school. Josefa Castilla Portugal De Garcini. 1804. New York Metropolitan Musuem. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. NEW YORK.

DAMA TIMIDA - SIGLO XIX. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Head of a Young Woman possibly 1780s Jean-Baptiste Greuze French Swirling clothing and hair join soulfully upturned eyes and tilted head in order to condense an emotionperhaps sorrowful longingtypical of têtes d’expression. These expressive head studies were not only part of an artist’s academic training, but in Greuze’s day also enjoyed appeal as independent works of art. This particular pose captures the late eighteenth-century rise of Sentimentalism, a largely literary movement that pulled on readers’ emotions, which Greuze used to great visual effect. Greuze’s technical skill is also on show, from the velvety skin to the masterful use of a limited range of colors.. Head of a Young Woman. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725-1805 Paris). possibly 1780s. Oil on canvas. Paintings

Il Penseroso, or Melancholy: A Female Figure, full length, Wearing Pale Green Robes, Standing in a Landscape, Resting Her Left Elbow on a Pedestal Bearing a Classical Frieze. George Romney (1734-1802). Oil on canvas. 236.1 x 143.5cm. This painting is said to represent Mrs. Yates, the famous actress.

Madame Gaye. Artist: Mariano Fortuny Marsal (Spanish, Reus 1838-1874 Rome). Dimensions: 54 x 39 1/2 in. (137.2 x 100.3 cm ). Date: 1865. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Mariano Fortuny Marsal.

Portrait of Lady Michelham, Boldini, Giovanni (1842-1931)

GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The Milkmaid of Bordeaux. ca. 1827. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Prado Museum.

Bust of an Oriental woman, Cesare Biseo, 1880, draughtsman: Cesare Biseo, , 1880, paper, brush, h 650 mm × w 530 mm

Fatigada, cuadro de Francesc Masriera, 1894. Museum: CIRCULO DEL LICEO.

Portrait of Marchesa Geronima Spinola by Dyck, Sir Anthonis, van (1599-1641) Staatliche Museen, Berlin ca 1624 Oil on canvas 226,8x151 Flanders Baroque Portrait Painting

After the Dance,1874, by Alfred Stevens (1823-1906), oil on canvas, 95.5 X 68.9 cm.

Albert Besnard (1849-1934), Portrait of Madame Roger Jourdain, 1886, oil on canvas, 200x143 cm.

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). French painter. Woman in a straw hat with flowers, 1857. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic.

Anders Zorn (1860-1920). Swedish painter. Portrait of Cristina Morphy, 1884. She was the only daughter of Guillermo Morphy (1836-1899), Spanish music critic. Watercolour on paper, 680 x 450 mm. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain.

The working worker after Chardin (Bocher 41, Marianne Roland Michel XXI p. 277) Jacques-Fabien Gautier-Dagoty. The Worker in Tapestry (Bocher 41, Marianne Roland Michel XXI p. 277), according to Jean-Sim�on Chardin (1699-1779). Color engraving (tetrachromy prepared with the cradle. Four angles tracking holes), 1742. Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Paris, small palace.

Portrait of Madame Bauquin of Boulay and Saiece Miss Bauquin of the Strain Fran�ois G�rard. "Portrait of Madame Bauquin of Boulay and his niece Mademoiselle Bauquin of the strain". Oil on canvas, between 1810 and 1815. Paris, Museum Cognacq-Jay.

Grace Rose. Date/Period: 1866. Painting. Oil on panel. Height: 711 mm (27.99 in); Width: 610 mm (24.01 in). Author: Frederick Sandys.

Lady Sarah Bunbury sacrificing to the Graces, 1763-1765, by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), oil on canvas, 243x151 cm.

The caption for this image, written about 1910, reads: Mrs Scott Moncrieff by Raeburn (1756-1823) in National Gallery of Scotland. None of Raeburn's portraits of ladies is quite so famous as this. Although in indifferent condition to bitumen been used, it is singularly charming in color, design, and sentiment, and is one of the chief treasures of the gallery, in which it has hung since 1854, when Mr R Scott Moncrieff, Welwood of Pitliver, bequeathed it to the Royal Scottish Academy. Sir Henry Raeburn (1756 - 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George

Alfred Bell & Co., Ltd., London, The Little White Girl, 1922, color mezzotint on paper.

According to Théobald Chartran (1849-1907). "Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in Gismonda". Oil on leather. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 34267-3 French actress, Comedien, Scene costume, leather oil, theater piece, portrait

Girl Resting. Dating: 1827. Measurements: h 65.5 cm × w 53 cm; d 9.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan Adam Kruseman.

A Good Read. Karl Maria Schuster (1871-1953). Oil on canvas. Dated 1919. 74.7 x 60cm

Portrait of Ekaterina Golenishcheva-Kutuzova by anonymous artist, painting, Russia, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage, 25, 5x21

'Breakfast'. Flanders, Second half of 17th century. Dimensions: 22,5x17,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: LEONARD DEFRANCE.

Queen Victoria in the Coronation robes, 1838 (1906). Artist: Charles Robert Leslie.

Portrait of a Lady. Date/Period: 1894. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 750 mm (29.52 in); Width: 525 mm (20.66 in). Author: Anselmo Guinea.

The Blue Cup; 1909 Oil on canvas Joseph Decamp American; 1858-1923

Portrait of young woman by Pietro Antonio Rotari, oil on canvas, 18th century, 1707-1762, Russia, Lomonosov, State Open-air Museum Oranienbaum, 47x35, 8

Held Captive. Angelo Martinetti (Active 19th Century). Oil on panel. Signed and dated 1874. 49.2 x 35cm.

Rita Molinos - 1815. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA (1746-1828). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Barcelona. SPAIN.

02/19/1908. "En Repose" painting by Maximo Peña, which was raffled at the Circulo de Bellas Artes ball.

Sophie ROSTOPCHINE, 1797-1874 Countess of Sgur, French writer, 1823 watercolour

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Lady with a Lute, 1886 Lady with a Lute

FRANQUE, Joseph (1774-1833). Marie-Louise and the King of Rome. ca. 1811. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. LE-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles.

Giovanni Segantini (1859-1899). Italian painter. Portrait of Mrs. Gaetana Casiraghi Oriani, 1889. She was the mother of the banker Casiraghi. Oil on canvas. Modern Art Gallery. Milan. Italy.

'Leocadia Zorilla', 1820-1823, Oil on mural, 145,7 cm x 129,4 cm, P00754. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. ZORRILLA LEOCADIA.

Isabella and Pot of Basil, Hunt, William Holman, 1867

Portrait of Ekaterina Fyodorovna Muravyova-Apostol, nee Kolokoltseva (1771-1848) by Monnier, Jean Laurent (1743/46-1808) / Private Collection / Classicism / / France / Oil on wood / Portrait / 54x39,5

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