Portraits are like a mirror into two souls, the artists and the subjects. Find a wide selection of portraits from an eclectic group of artist and styles. What do the works say about the artist, about the subject? What similarities and differences do you see between works? What is the medium used? What time period do you think the subject lived in? What nation or cultural group might the subject be a part of? Can you find a favorite? A least favorite?
Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, Piero della Francesca, 1467 - 1472, From the collection of: Uffizi Gallery
Mathew B. Brady, Unidentified Artist, c. 1861, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Eleanor Roosevelt, Clara Sipprell, 1949, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Alain Leroy Locke, Winold Reiss, c. 1925, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Ronald Reagan, Aaron Shikler, 1980, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, c. 1880-1884, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
John F. Kennedy, Elaine de Kooning, 1963, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Siffred Duplessis, c. 1785, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
John Brown, Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1872, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, 1865, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb, Samuel Root or Marcus Aurelius Root, c. 1850, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Sato Issai (age 50), Watanabe Kazan, Edo period, dated 1821 (Bunsei 4), From the collection of: Tokyo National Museum
George W. Bush, Robert A. Anderson, 2008, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Lu Xun, Tan Swie Hian, 1993, From the collection of: National Heritage Board, Singapore
Portrait of Josette Gris, Juan Gris, 1916, From the collection of: Museo Reina Sofia
(Untitled) Portrait of a Young Man, Cheong Soo Pieng, 1952, From the collection of: National Heritage Board, Singapore
Portrait of Germán Cueto, Julio Castellanos, ca. 1927, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Arte
Portrait of Mulay Ahmad, Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen, circa 1535 - 1536, From the collection of: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Portrait of M.P.Musorgsky, Ilya Repin, 1881, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery
Seated Portrait of Minamoto Yoritomo (Presumed), Kamakura period, 13th-14th century, From the collection of: Tokyo National Museum
Portrait of a young Maori woman with moko, Louis John Steele (artist), 1891, From the collection of: Te Papa
Self-Portrait: Serious, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, ca. 1780, From the collection of: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Portrait of Betty Curnow, Rita Angus, 1942, From the collection of: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
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