Historical Portraits and Figures

A series of historical paintings depicting figures in traditional attire, capturing the essence of their roles with dramatic lighting and thoughtful poses.

A Winter's Morning John William Godward (1861-1922 British) Oil on canvas

Diego Velázquez / 'MenipPUS', 1639-1640, Oil on canvas, 179 × 97 cm, P01207. Museum: MUSEO DEL PRADO, MADRID, SPAIN. MENIPO DE GADARA.

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'Saint Peter Thomas', ca. 1634, Oil on canvas, 92.4 x 32.1 cm. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. BOSTON-MASSACHUSETTS. SAN PEDRO TOMAS.

SAN ANDRES - SIGLO XVII - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN. Location: MARIENKIRCHE. CARMONA. Seville. SPAIN.

A Winter's Morning John William Godward (1861-1922 British) Oil on canvas

Illustration from an advertisement for Celanese fabric by Bevan Petman, showing a young woman in her underwear. Date: 01/05/1928

ANDRES RIBERA. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-CONVENTO DE LA MERCED CALZAD. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Lord Leighton / Star of Bethlehem

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in her Corporate Taard, Henricus Rol, 1951 painting Portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in her Coronation, standing in front of a window. The painting was badly damaged during the riots in Djakarta in 1960. canvas. oil paint (paint) historical persons - BB - woman Jakarta

Mrs Potter Palmer 1893 Sweden. Oil on canvas . Anders Zorn

RETRATO DE JOVEN CABALLERO DE SANTIAGO - SIGLO XVII - OLEO/LIENZO - 202X127 cm - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: ANONIMO MADRILEÑO (S. XVII). Location: BANCO EXTERIOR-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

The King to the Prince of Wales: Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein,” King Henry IV, Part I, Act III, Scene II. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Standing Arab, Wearing a Turban and a Burnous, Delacroix, Eugene

A Young Lady in 1866, Lady with a Parakeet, Edouard Manet, 1866, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Portrait of the wife with Pusia. Mierzejewski, Jacek (1883-1925), painter

MAESTRE DE CAMPO DE LA INFANTERIA ESPAÑOLA - SIGLO XVII - ESCUELA ITALIANA - LIENZO - 2,53x1,09 - Nº INVENTARIO 124 -. Author: ANONIMO (S. XVII). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Lazarus James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

Francisco de Zurbarán / 'San Francisco de Asís según la visión del papa Nicolás V', hacia 1640, Óleo sobre lienzo, 180,5 x 110,5 cm.

Arnold Böcklin (born 16 October 1827, died January 1901), Swiss painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor of Symbolism: portrait of the Actress Fanny Janauschek (1861), Painting, Reproduction of the painting, Work of art, Historical, A woman in a black dress with a sad expression in an interior room

LA DISIPACION DEL HIJO PRODIGO / EL HIJO PRODIGO ABANDONADO - 1660 - NP 999/1000 - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Black, Portrait of Theodore Duret, James McNeill Whistler, circa 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

PINTURA - LEON X PAPA. Author: ALVARO DELGADO RAMOS (1922-2016). JUAN DE MEDICIS LEON X (1475/1521). JUAN DE MEDICIS-PAPA LEON X. LORENZO DE MEDICIS (HIJO). GIOVANI DE LORENZO DE MEDICIOS LEON X (1475/1521).

Blond Boy with Primer, Peach, and Dog. Date/Period: Ca. 1836. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 1,229.61 mm (48.40 in); Width: 762.51 mm (30.02 in). Author: Ammi Phillips.

The Muse Melpomene, 15th century, oil on canvas, Temple of the Muses, Ducal Palace, Urbino.

'Pentecost' (detail), ca. 1600, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, P00828. Author: EL GRECO. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. APOSTLE PETER.

Knight of Alccintam by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Seville 1617-1682 Seville) Oil on canvas.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

Coppelius and Coppelia by Leon Bakst, oil on canvas, 1866-1924, 20th century, Russia, St. Petersburg, Brodski Museum, 83x63

'Visit'. Belgium. Dimensions: 57,5x42,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Florent Willems.

Fire Screen. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 61.4 x 48.9 cm (24 3/16 x 19 1/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 60" high; 10" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Bowman.

Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo, Moroni, Giovanni Battista, 1560.

Marie Louise of Orleans (1662-1689). Queen consort of Spain (1679-1689) by her marriage to Charles II of Spain. Anonymous portrait, third quarter of the 17th century. Oil on canvas. Museum of Santa Cruz. Toledo. Spain.

Philip II, King of Spain 1551, Titian, 1551.

LA SAMARITANA. Author: NARBONA FRANCISCO. Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-CONVENTO DE LA MERCED CALZAD. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

Forstén, Berndt Lennart, work, Ämmä jernbruk, Finland utretädt i teckninger, booklets XX and XXI, 1848, lithography, graphics, leaf width 32 cm, leaf height 23.5 cm, image width 20 cm, image height 12.5 cm

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci); Italian; Citta della Pieve; 1469 - 1523; Fonugnano; Saint Lucy; Saint John the Baptist; Oil on wood.

Woman in blue, circa 1916, Wellington, by Mina Arndt. Gift of Mr John and Miss May Manoy, son and step-daughter of the artist, 1962.

Stories of St James Episode no. 4 of The Body of St James is Carried to the Castle of Lupa, Spain, and the Burial of the Saint, by Avanzi Jacopo, 1372 - 1379, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Padua, Basilica del Santo, San Giacomo Chapel, bottom wall, upper order, right lunette. Detail. Folded-in dress. robe. garment of the disciple on the right. Episode No. 4 of the Stories of St James of arrival of the body of St James at Lupa Castle in Spain and burial of the saint. After restoration.

Study for figure of Religion rondel in the rotunda of the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,1902-1911. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

Portrait of woman in traditional clothing by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov, Oil on cardboard, 1900, 1848-1926, Russia, Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, 32x12, 5

Returned Soldier from Cuba on the Quay. Date/Period: 1898. Drawing. Ink and varnish on paper and cardboard. Height: 294 mm (11.57 in); Width: 257 mm (10.11 in). Author: ISIDRE NONELL I MONTURIOL.

SAN JUAN - 1756 - MADERA POLICROMADA - BARROCO ESPAÑOL. Author: Francisco Salzillo. Location: MUSEO SALZILLO. MURCIA. SPAIN. SAN JUAN EVANGELISTA Y APOSTOL.

Master of the Griselda Legend, Joseph of Egypt, c 1490 1495 Joseph of Egypt

ESTATUA DE SANTA MARIA DE LA CABEZA ESPOSA DE SAN ISIDRO. Location: MUSEO DE SAN ISIDRO. MADRID. SPAIN.

Cherub's head second half 18th century Italian, Naples In 1964, Loretta Hines Howard generously presented to the Museum over 140 Neapolitan crèche figures, dating from the second half of the eighteenth century. The varied assortment includes figures from the three traditional scenes of a complete Neapolitan presepio: the Nativity, with angels, shepherds, and sheep; the procession of the three Magi, with their colorful retinue of attendants; and the varied and gay crowd of country and town people thronging the tavern, or inn, of Bethlehem the diversorium mentioned by St. Luke, where on the Holy Night there was no place for Mary and Joseph. Averaging between twelve and fifteen inches in height, according to the position they were to take in perspective in the stage set, the figures are pliable and can be given poses at will, according to their facial expressions. Their bodies are made of tow and wire, their arms and legs are finely carved of wood, and their heads and shoulders are mode

Painter and his wife with a dwarf, from the Cycle of Scenes of Living Skeletons, Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini (1757-1839), tempera on canvas. Church of Santa Grata Inter Vites, in Borgo Canale, Bergamo, Italy.

Kazimierz Stabrowski (1869-1929), Portrait in a fantastic outfit / Au Costume Fantastique currently a picture in Zb. National Museum in Warsaw; Meduza (Warsaw; Publisher), Anczyc, W Adys Aw Ludwik and Spóża (Kraków; Drukarnia; 1875-1948); around 1910 (1905-00-00-1915-00-00);

Portrait of Ekaterina Obreskova by anonymous artist, painting, Russia, Saratov, State A. Radishchev Art Museum, 93x65

Painting depicting Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel by the Piano by Mikhail Vrubel. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) a Russian artist.

Leningrad St. Petersburg

Kunisada, B, C, work, Actors Onoe Kikugoro III, Ichikawa Monnosuke and Seki Sanjuro II in the play Ise heishi ume no mitekura (A plum tree offered to the gods), dating : 1820, color woodcut, major category: graphics

Hristo Tsokev (1847-1883). Bulgarian painter. A smoker, 1872. Oil on canvas. National Gallery. Sofia, Bulgaria.

Federico Faruffini (1833-1869). Italian painter. The Reader, 1864-1865. Oil on canvas, 40,5 x 59 cm. Modern Art Gallery. Milan. Italy.

Mary Sullivan by Frank Weston Benson, oil on canvas, (1862-1951), USA, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, David David Gallery, 1902

Painting titled 'In the Presence of the Lord' by Franesc Masriera (1842-1902) Catalonian figure painter and goldsmith who was influenced by Orientalism. Dated 1891

A Man and Two Women Laughing, 1820-1823. Oil on canvas, by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. One of the Black Paintings. The Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

The fairy of Collcerola, 1902. Oil on canvas. 180 x 94.5 cm. Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. Author: MANUEL URGELLES.

SAN ANTON. Author: JUAN DE JUNI (1507-1577). Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ESCULTURA-COLECCION. Valladolid. SPAIN.

Portrait of Sir Jerome Bowes (Tudor) Ambassador of England, to the Russian court in Moscow. 1583 artist unknown

Archangel Gabriel/Angel of the Annunciation c.1495 Sandro Botticelli(1444-1510)Italian Pushkin Museum of Finr Art, Moscow

Girl in the garden; Vuillard, Jean-édouard (1868-1940); 1891 (1891-00-00-1891-00-00);Rychter Janowska, Bronisława - collections, Zapolska, Gabriela (1857-1921) - collections, French painting, modernism (style), nabists, purchase (provenance)

St. Martin. Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898). Coloured chalks. Signed and dated 1880. 189.5 x 58.5cm. A cartoon for Morris & Co for the figure of St. Martin in the Chancel east window at St. Martin's Church, Brompton, Cumberland.

Fair Critics. Artist: Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942). Dimensions: 18 x 32 in. (45.7 x 81.3 cm). Date: 1887.A native of Kentucky, Curran moved in 1881 to New York City, where he attended the National Academy of Design and became a prolific and popular painter of genre scenes and portraits. Here, he depicted a model presenting her image to an audience of two "fair critics." The artist, with his palette on his left knee, attempts to gauge their reactions. The lavish interior recalls William Merritt Chase's eclectic and abundantly equipped studio, which inspired many of his contemporaries. An artist's handsome studio signified the effort to create beauty for its own sake and reassured clients of its proprietor's taste and sophistication. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

NIÑO - SIGLO XX. Location: EXPOSICION DE PINTURA INFANTIL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Crucifixion of St. Peter, by Pere Serra . c.1400. From church of St. Pere de Cubells, Catalonia .National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.

Painting titled 'The Piercing of Christ's Body' by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) a Flemish painter and artist of the Flemish Baroque art school. Dated 17th Century

Ivan IV the Terrible with ghost by Baron Mikhail Petrovich Klodt , watercolor, gouache on paper, 1835-1914, Russia, Stavropol, State Art Museum, 27x39

PORTRAIT OF THE MARQUISE OF SAN CARLOS DE PEDROSO - XIX CENTURY - OIL / CANVAS - 212 x 135 cm - NP 2985. Author: FELIX-HENRI GIACOMOTTI. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. MADAN DOLORES. MARQUESA DE SAN CARLOS DE PEDROSO.

The Girl with a Red Hat, About 1660 by Jan Vermeer (1632 ñ 1675);Dutch painter

Old Woman Reading, probably the Prophetess Hannah, by Rembrandt, 1631, oil on panel, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe,

Santa Monica. Ciclo di affreschi di Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano, inizio XV secolo. Ciclo del Battista - banchetto di Erode

Hamlet and ghost by unknown painter, oil on canvas, Russia, Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 65, 5x51

Portrait of Maria from Sok Fabija Ski, Stanis Aw Ignacy (1865-1947); beginning of the 20th century (1901-00-00-1910-00-00);Fabijańska, Maria (Fl. 1. Vol. XX century), books, women's portraits, sketches, purchase (provenance)

Singing a Pathetic Song. Dated: 1881. Dimensions: overall: 114.3 × 81.8 cm (45 × 32 3/16 in.) framed: 132.7 × 100.3 × 8.3 cm (52 1/4 × 39 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Thomas Eakins.

'Felipe IV in Hunting Garb' (detail), ca. 1633, Spanish School, Oil on canvas, P01184. Author: DIEGO VELAZQUEZ (1599-1660). Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. FELIPE III HIJO. MARGARITA DE AUSTRIA HIJO. AUSTRIA MARGARITA HIJO. FELIPE IV REY DE ESPAÑA.

Madame X, Madame Pierre Gautreau, John Singer Sargent, 1883-1884, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Portrait of a Woman in 17th-century Clothing, anonymous, 1750 - 1799 painting Portrait of a woman in seventeenth-century clothing. Knee piece in oval, standing on a balcony overlooked with ivy. Pendant of SK-A-1332. Northern Netherlands glass. amalgam historical persons not known by name - BB - woman

The Smoker, by Adriaen Brouwer, 1630-38, Flemish painting, oil on panel. Slouching in his tavern chair, with his breeches open, he blows smoke from his pipe through his nose. Behind him a man is asleep at a table (BSLOC_2016_3_158)

Madonna's main; Baka Owowicz, Stefan (1857-1947); before 1918 (1877-00-00-1917-00-00);gift (provenance)

'Portrait of a Military Retiree'. Russia, 1840. Dimensions: 66,7x54,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Pyotr Zakharov (Zakharov-Chechenets).

CONDE MATHIAS GALASSO TENIENTE GENERAL DEL EJERCITO DE CARLOS V - SIGLO XVII - ESCUELA ITALIANA - LIENZO - 1,92x0,72 - Nº INVENTARIO 128. Author: ANONIMO (S. XVII). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. GALASSO MATHIAS CONDE / CONDE MATIAS GALASSO. CONDE GALLAS.

Yawning Apprentice', 1868-1869. Artist: Mihaly Munkacsy. Mihaly Munkacsy(1844-1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.

Garbage man. Barciński, L. (fl. ca 1885), painter

DOÑA PURITA - SIGLO XX. Author: IGNACIO ZULOAGA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Pedraza. SEGOVIA. SPAIN.

Edouard Manet 1832-1883. The balcony. 1868-1869. oil painting on canvas cm 170 x 125. detail.

The Knight in Black. Date/Period: 1567. Panel. Oil on canvas. Height: 190 mm (7.48 in); Width: 102 mm (4.01 in). Author: Giovanni Battista Moroni.

An Embarrassment of Choices, or A Difficult Choice (Un Embarras du Choix) Jehan-Georges Vibert (French, 1840-1902). An Embarrassment of Choices, or A Difficult Choice (Un Embarras du Choix), before 1873. Oil on panel, 18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (46 x 35.9 cm). European Art before 1873

George Bellows, Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett), American, 1882 - 1925, 1907, oil on canvas

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

The Majesty, by Martini Simone, 1313 - 1315, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala del Mappamondo. Detail. The left foot of St John the Baptist inscription Gothic type brown hues: shades light blue: azure brown blue.

Henry L. Fry. Date/Period: 1883. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 99.5 cm (39.1 in); Width: 45.6 cm (17.9 in). Author: Kenyon Cox.

Two Peasants Binding Faggots, Pieter Breughel the Younger, circa 1620,

Portrait of Gian Ludovico Madruzzo, 1551-1552, by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525 ca- 1578), oil on canvas, 202x117 cm.

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Rembrandt, 1653, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

Ryabushkin, Andrei Petrovich (1861-1904) State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Painting 104x233 History The toy army of Peter I

Nanser, Atilio Boveri, 1912-15 ,oil on canvas, pollensa museum, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Self-portrait. Szczygliński, Henryk (1881-1944), painter

BODEGON DE PAN. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe (1829-1893). Belgian painter. After the walk, 1855-1860. Oil on panel. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

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