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Vintage Female Portraits

Elegant 20th-century portraits of women, featuring stylish attire and accessories, captured in soft lighting and classical poses.

USA, New York, Clara Moores in ""Shavings"", comedy, Knickerbocker Theatre, 1921

Clemence Dane was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton (21 February 1888 - 28 March 1965); an English novelist and playwright.

Sarah Bernhardt; Nadar, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910), Paul Nadar (French, 1856 - 1939); negative about 1864; print about 1924 ; Gelatin silver print; 21.1 x 16.2 cm (8 5,16 x 6 3,8 in.)

Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952) by Anonymous /Private Collection/Photograph/Portrait

Ethel Barrymore, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes 1900 Reproduction of painting by Frederick Moladore Spiegle Trade cards from the "Actresses" series (T1), published in 1900 by the American Tobacco Company to promote Turkish Trophy Cigarettes. Twenty-five card set reproduced from original paintings by artist F.M. Spiegle.. Ethel Barrymore, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes 422863

Portrait of Mrs. Sauer, the mother of Irene With.

Gwendoline Syrie Maud Wellcome (née Barnardo), Syrie Maugham. Photograph by Nitscher, 1903.

Caroline Harrison, 1st Lady of the United States of America, 1889 - 1892.

Silent Film Actress Ann Little (1891-1984), Publicity Portrait, Evans L.A., 1910's

Nadezhda Teffi (1872-1952), Anonymous

Siedlecka from Stachiewiczów Anna Daughter of Piotr Stachiewicz WIFE of Michał Siedlecki Kuczyński, Józef

Mary L. Duke

EDITH NEWBOLD WHARTON Nee Jones American novelist Date: 1862 - 1937

Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892-1977), actress, seen here leaning on a cushion holding a dog. She was about to leave for America, and had recently appeared with Sir George Alexander in The Ideal Husband at St James's Theatre, London. Date: 1914

USA, New York, Studio shot of Winifred Lenihan in ""For the Defense"" at Playhouse Theatre

Eleanor Rigby. David Octavius Hill (Scotland, 1802-1870)Robert Adamson (Scotland, 1821-1848). Scotland, circa 1840, printed circa 1910. Photographs. Photogravure

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Madame Roux , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Roux). Woman, portrait, fashion, Human beings, clothing, Mme Graté 10, 2 1918 France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mme Roux

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872-1956), late 19th century.Artist: Russell & Sons

Heather, circa 1938, United Kingdom, by Marion Queenie Kirker. Gift of Anne Kirker, 1993.

Portrait of Lucia Rocca Cimini, a harpist (bust in tonda) - photography with dedication for Aleksander Rajchman from 1905; Rossi, Giulio (1824-1884); around 1905; before 21.08.1905 (1900-00-00-1905-00-00);Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915), Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-dedication for, Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, Rocca Cimini, Lucia (Fl. Ca 1900), Rocca Cimini, Lucia (fl. Ca 1900) - dedication from, Rocca Cimini, Lucia (Fl. Ca 1900) - iconography, dedications, portraits, female portraits, message (provenance), Italian (culture)

Katharine Martha Houghton (1878-1951), the mother of famed actress Katherine Hepburn, in a portrait published in THE SUFFRAGIST in 1920. She was an heiress to the Corning Glass fortune, a lifelong feminist, and a co-founder of Planned Parenthood. 1920.

$Portrait of María P. Gay (1879-1943), Catal forests (bust); Pirou, Eug \ `Ene (1841-1909); around 1900 (1895-00-00-1909-00-00);Gay, Maria (1879-1943), Gay, Maria (1879-1943)-iconography, Rajchman, Aleksander (1855-1915)-collection, opera (artist), portraits, female portraits, singers$

Georgia Gardner ca 1899.

Photograph by Josef Löwy showing Natalie of Serbia around 1890. Albumin paper print documenting royal portrait and attire.

Portrait of Mies Rosenboom - Merkelbach, Jacob Merkelbach (attributed to), 1920 - 1930 photograph Amsterdam Fotografie: Support photographic. Secondary Drager: Cardboard historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) - BB - woman

Two daughters of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II (1868-1918): Olga Nikolaevna Romanova (1895-1918), left, and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova (1897-1918), right, photograph by Boissonnas & Eggler from the magazine L'Illustration, year 71, no 3678, August 23, 1913.

Portrait of Natalya Nikolaevna Sobinova-Viryazova (1888-1942), Russian singer (view from the knees upwards). unknown, publisher

Miss Norreys, British actress, 1887. Artist: Ernest Barraud

Helena Modjeska (1840 1909), polish actress who specialized in Shakespearean and tragic roles.

Portrait of Latest portrait of ex-kaiser wife, widowed Princess Hermine of Schonaich-Carolath, during holiday stop at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian mountains, 1925

Vera Kholodnaya, Russian silent film actor by Sakharov & Orlov /Private Collection/1910s/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Mrs. L.S. Amery, New Protrait Of Mrs. L.S. Amery. Wife of The Rt. Hon L.S. Amery, secretary of State for Dominions etc.Mrs. Amery is a daughter of the late John Hamar Gresnwood of the late John Hamar Greenwood, of Whitby Ont. and sister of The Rt. Hon. Sir Hamar Greenwood. Bart, M.P. July 18, 1928. (Photo by Bassano Ltd.)

CLARA M CODD Writer of thoughtful articles. Date: CIRCA 1914

Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), later Duchess of York, Queen Elizabeth and then Queen Mother (to Queen Elizabeth II). Wife of King George VI. Pictured around the time of her engagement to the then Duke of York. Date: 1923

Photograph of Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937) a British artist and noblewoman. Dated 19th Century

Clara Ellen Butt (1872-1936), English contralto, early 20th century.Artist: Fellows Willson

H.R.H The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, 1908.Artist: WD & HO Wills

Lady May Cambridge (1906 - 1994), later Lady Henry Abel Smith Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone (Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice). Pictured at the time she was one of the eight bridesmaids attending the Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when she married Prince Albert, Duke of York at Westminster Abbey on 26 April 1923. Date: 1923

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Lady Swythling , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Lady Swaythling). Woman, personality of the nobility, endowment, portrait, jewel, fashion, Human beings, personality, clothing, France , Boulogne , Portraits , Mme

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France the Countess Hélène de Caraman , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France La Comtesse Hélène de Caraman). Woman, personality of nobility, prince , princess, portrait, flower, jewelry, fashion, Human beings, personality, clothing, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Countess of Caraman

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Madame. .. , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame. ..). Woman, shipwrecked image, portrait, jewelry, mode, Human beings, clothing, France, Boulogne, Mme..

Rita Newman as Bruennhilde

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Bronja Perlmutter , 1926, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Anna de Noailles, French author, 1930. Artist: Unknown

Ophelia. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

Princess Mary of the United Kingdom, c1910s(). Artist: Unknown

Portrait Queen Wilhelmina, Jacob Merkelbach, 1948 photograph Amsterdam photographic support gelatin silver print

Mrs Moreland, 13 Sidney St, Petone, 7 August 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Photograph of Lillian Gish (1893-1993) an American actress and singer known as "The First Lady of American Cinema".

Alexandra of Denmark, 1844 to 1925. Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India from 1901 to 1910 as the consort of Edward VII. From the book Our Queen Mothers by Elizabeth Villiers.

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Madame Sarah-Claire Boas known as Jouvenel , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Madame Sarah-Claire Boas dite de Jouvenel). Feminism, woman, portrait, jewel, fashion, Human beings, clothing, France, Boulogne, Portraits, Mme de Jouvenel

Lily Elsie (1886 - 1962), Popular actress and singer wearing a hat with roses Date: 1907

Cigarette card depicting Mary of Teck (1867-1953) Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India as wife of King George V. Dated 20th century

Portrait of Mrs. Frederick H. Evans; Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853 - 1943); about 1900; Platinum print; 17.6 x 13.4 cm (6 15,16 x 5 1,4 in.)

Poetess Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Anonymous

Portrait of actress Voronets by Petrov, Nikolai (1876-1940)/Private Collection/1916/Photoengraving/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands 1938

Mrs. Isaac Roberts, née Dorothea Klumpke, Doctor ès Sciences from the University of Paris, first woman awarded a doctorate in sciences. Photograph.

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Janet Flanner, 1927, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Lillie Langtry 1853-1929, born as Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, the only daughter of Jersey's dean, was called the Jersey Lily. English beauty of society and actress. Her extramarital lovers included Prince Louis von Battenberg and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII in 1887. WoodburyType after a photography of W&D Downey, approx. 1892., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century template, Record Date Not Stated

Dorothy Wilding 1893-1976. portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain wife of King George VI. 1937

Beatrice Seymour (1886-1955), British writer, early 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, GCVO (n饠Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, 6 May 1890 17 November 1967), the third daughter of 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne by his wife, Nina Cecilia, and an elder sister of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (therefore an aunt of Queen Elizabeth II). Date: 1915

Gladys Changelian ,. Leon Abdalian Collection

Princess Yolanda of Savoy circa 1910-1915.

Lilya Brik, Bochmann, A.

Frances Helen Prideaux. Photograph by Frederick Hollyer.

Portrait of an unknown woman with hat, Franz Eiffert, 1905 Photograph. visit card Amsterdam baryta paper. cardboard adult woman. anonymous historical person portrayed

GUSTAVE COURTOIS Lato

Portrait of Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart. .

Portret van Julia Gwynne, The St. James's Photographic Company, c. 1879 - in or before 1884 photomechanical print paper historical persons. adult woman

The Echo" Hattie Campbell The Echo (Hattie Campbell). Photography by Julia-Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). Paris, Victor Hugo House.

Portrait of the Prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) by Anonymous /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/c. 1900/Photograph/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Frances Cleveland (1864-1947), First Lady of the United States 1886-89 and 1893-97, as Wife of U.S. President Grover Cleveland, photograph by Charles Milton Bell, late 1880's

First Lady Grace Coolidge darning socks on August 6, 1923. It was four days after the death of President Warren Harding. Photo was probably taken in the Coolidge's suite at the Willard Hotel. (BSLOC_2015_15_156)

Rosa Luxemburg, Anonymous

12/31/1926. Queen Victoria Eugenia by the Hungarian-English painter Laszlo photo Casa Moreno, Madrid.

Alice Paul (1885-1977), militant American Suffragette leader and feminist at her desk in 1915. She was jailed three times in her protests for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. In 1923 she drafted the first proposed equal rights amendment to the Constitution.

Portrait of Catharina Maria Petronella ("To") van Bakel, born Deventer June 13, 1898, teacher at St. Antonius Girls School (J.P. Koenstraat 60) in Utrecht, deceased Utrecht 10 March 1979. Knie piece from the front, standing.

Lewis Waller (1860-1915), English actor, early 20th century.Artist: Dover Street Studios

Marina Tsvetaeva by Anonymous /Private Collection/1920s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Eva Plaschke-by the East as Elsa

First Lady Grace Coolidge knits her husband's socks, 1923

Photographic portrait of Maria Barrientos (1883-1946) a Spanish opera singer and a light coloratura soprano. Dated 20th Century

Queen Elizabeth (Consort of King george VI of England) 1937

Marie Curie (1867-1934), Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist. Nobel prize.

Portrait of Roly Bock, in fur coat with cigarette, Walther Jaeger, 1925 - 1940 photograph Berlin paper female singer. cigarette. historical persons Berlin

Ethel Matthews (1869 - 1957), English actress of the 19th and 20th centuries. Date: 1899

Lucy Burns (1879-1966), American suffragist and women's rights advocate, half-length seated portrait, Washington, D.C., USA, Clinedinst Studio, 1913

Queen Mary, when Princess May of Teck (1867-1953), pictured c.1902. She married the Duke of York, who became King George V of Great Britain and North Ireland (1865-1936). Date: 1902

Auguste BauDius -, actress, Unknown, photographer

Portrait of Wanda of the Epkowska (1866-1937); Kawecki, Roman (1868-1938); 1930 (1930-00-00-1930-00-00);

Adele de Garde (1899circa 1965), one of the Vitagraph players - an American silent film actress, who appeared in 114 films between 1908 and 1918. circa 1909

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mademoiselle Héloisa de Figueiredo , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Mademoiselle Héloisa de Figueiredo). Woman, portrait, fashion, Human beings, clothing, France, Boulogne, Miss Héloïsa de Figueiredo

Marie Witsen-Schorr. .

Mrs. Governor Hagen. EPSON scanner image

Portret van Sarah Bernhardt, Félix Nadar (attributed to), 1869 photograph This photo is part of an album. France paper portrait of actor, actress France

Portrait of Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, and Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 1934 photograph The Hague photographic support

Alice Joyce (18901955) - an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s. circa 1915

The French actress Gaby Morlay (1893-1964), photograph from Il Secolo Illustrato, weekly supplement from the Secolo di Milano, 1928.

Helen Keller with Flowers, circa 1905

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