Portraits

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A collection of portraits, mostly painted, chosen based on realism, skill or charm. Portrait art is usually in modern terms only interesting for the subject and relatives, or for famed household names. Yet as humans we love nothing more than seeing another human. We even look for faces in things that have none.

Quite a few of the people here were famous themselves. But only a few of them are to any degree still mentioned, and then mostly by teachers and professors in suspicious slippers. But these paintings have survived. Both a piece of the person painted, and of the artist that did the work. Once upon a time, they lived. This is the evidence.

Young Man Sitting, Study. Self-Portrait known as At the Easel, Gustave Courbet, circa 1847, From the collection of: Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Portrait of May Sartoris, Frederic Leighton, c. 1860, From the collection of: Kimbell Art Museum

Mrs. James Guthrie, Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896, British, 1865, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Portrait of a man, thought to be George Booth, Lord Delamere, Peter LELY, c.1660, From the collection of: Art Gallery of South Australia

Charles I (1600-49), Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1635 - Before June 1636, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

David Garrick (1717-79) with his wife Eva-Maria Veigel, "La Violette" or "Violetti" (1725 - 1822), William Hogarth, 1757 - 1764, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

Portrait of the Artist, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1623, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Greatorex, Joseph Wright (of Derby), 1734/1797, From the collection of: SCAD Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75), ca. 1768, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Mrs Frances Hesketh, Joseph Wright (of Derby), 1769, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Self-portrait, Ramon Martí i Alsina, Around 1875, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Winter 1882, Francesc Masriera, 1882, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Study of a Female Head, Edward Burne-Jones, 1894, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Self-portrait, Ramon Casas, 1908, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of a Young Man, Willem Drost, Around 1654, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

The Sisters, Abbott H. Thayer, 1884, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

Handsome Morning -- A Dakota, Harry C. Edwards, 1921, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

(Main View, composite), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Portrait of the Marquise de Miramon, née Thérèse Feuillant, Jacques Joseph Tissot, 1866, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Portrait of Mrs Robert Harrison, John Singer Sargent, 1886, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Portrait of a Man, Francois-Xavier Fabre, 1809, From the collection of: National Galleries Scotland: National

Maori girl, Gottfried Lindauer (artist), circa 1874, From the collection of: Te Papa

Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe, Eanger Irving Couse, 1909, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum

John Singleton Copley Self-Portrait, John Singleton Copley, 1780-1784, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alanson Fisher, 1853, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

Rubens Peale, Rembrandt Peale, 1807, From the collection of: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

Rubens Peale with a Geranium, Rembrandt Peale, 1801, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Portrait of a Gentleman, Charles Mellin (attributed), 1630, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Portrait of Sir William Killigrew, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1638, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Portrait of Gerolamo (?) Barbarigo, Titian, about 1510, From the collection of: The National Gallery, London

Portrait of a Lady, Diego Velázquez, around 1630, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 1633, From the collection of: Rijksmuseum

Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, 1872, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Portrait of Countess Ursula Mniszek, Dmitry Levitsky, 1782, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Self Portrait as the Apostle Paul, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 1661, From the collection of: Rijksmuseum

Portrait of a Married Couple in the Park, Gonzales Coques (attributed), 1662, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Portrait of M.P.Musorgsky, Ilya Repin, 1881, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

The Mother of Captain von Stierle-Holzmeister, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, around 1819, From the collection of: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Lady in blue. Portrait of Ye.M. Martynova, Konstantin Somov, 1897 - 1900, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Portrait of a Genovese Gentleman, Anton van Dyck, around 1621, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ranuccio Farnese, Titian, 1541-1542, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Portrait of an elderly Man dressed in the Style of the Reign of Philip IV, José Llaneces, 1900, From the collection of: Fundación Banco Santander

Portrait of an elderly Man dressed in the Style of the Reign of Philip III, José Llaneces, 1900, From the collection of: Fundación Banco Santander

Portrait of William Merritt Chase, Beckwith, James Carroll, 1881-1882, From the collection of: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Portrait of John Naylor, Sir Francis Grant, 1857, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Portrait of Mrs. Anthony Greatorex, Joseph Wright (of Derby), 1734/1797, From the collection of: SCAD Museum of Art

Portrait of Jane Dawkes Robinson, Romney, George, about 1778, From the collection of: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Self Portrait, Anton Raphael Mengs, 1774, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Mrs Frances Hesketh, Joseph Wright (of Derby), 1769, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Dr. Richard Wright, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75), 1785 to 1789, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

William Hayley, Romney, George, 1777-79, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Mrs. Thomas Phipps, George Romney, 1734–1802, British, 1780, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Portrait of a Lady, Jan Adam Kruseman, 1829, From the collection of: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova, Valentin Serov, 1911, From the collection of: The State Russian Museum

Self Portrait after Beechey, Bourgeois, Sir Peter FrancisBeechey, Sir William, Before 1811, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Portrait of Anne Howard-Vyse, Tilly Kettle, 1780, From the collection of: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Portrait of Dolors Vidal, Ramon Casas, 1911, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of the Art Critic and Writer Raimon Casellas, Lluís Graner, 1894, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of the Artist, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1623, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

Large Self-Portrait, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1652, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Self-portrait, Opie, John, c.1794, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Retrato de Senhora, Henrique Bernardelli, 1895, From the collection of: Pinacoteca de São Paulo

Portrait of Senyora Espalter, Joaquim Espalter, 1852, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of Carlota Quintana Badia, Federico de Madrazo, 1869, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of a woman, Florence RODWAY, (1907-10), From the collection of: National Gallery of Australia

Portrait of a Woman, Probably Mrs. Price of Rugby, John Linnell, 1792–1882, British, 1835, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Portrait of a Man holding a Letter ('L'Avvocato'), Giovanni Battista Moroni, about 1570, From the collection of: The National Gallery, London

Girl in a Japanese Costume, William Merritt Chase, ca. 1890, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

Old man wearing a red fez, Gyzis Nikolaos, 1842/1901, From the collection of: Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization

Lydia Field Emmet, William Merritt Chase, 1892, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

Girl at a Window, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, 1645, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Marie Leszczinska, queen of France, Carle Van Loo, 1747, From the collection of: Palace of Versailles

Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker, Gottlieb Schick, 1802, From the collection of: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pierre-Louis Laideguive, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Around 1761, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Boma, Yoo, Hyun Mi, 유현미, 2010, From the collection of: Korean Art Museum Association

Le Bon Bock, Édouard Manet, French, 1832 - 1883, 1873, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Sir Thomas More, Hans Holbein, 1527, From the collection of: The Frick Collection

Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, 1841, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Fantine, Margaret Bernardine Hall, 1886, From the collection of: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

The Moorish Chief, Eduard Charlemont, Austrian, 1848 - 1906, 1878, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Railway, Edouard Manet, 1873, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

(Main View), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Mrs. Cecil Wade, John Singer Sargent, 1886, From the collection of: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Portrait of Henriette Girshman, Valentin Serov, 1907, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Cathrine Jensen, née Lorenzen, the Artist's Wife Wearing a Turban, C.A. Jensen, 1842-1844, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Margaret MacKittrick, Thayer, Abbott Handerson, about 1903, From the collection of: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

The captive, Sir John Everett Millais, 1882, From the collection of: Art Gallery of New South Wales

Woman with Red Hair, Albert Herter, 1894, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Sisters, Abbott H. Thayer, 1884, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears), John Singer Sargent, 1899, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

St. Catherine, Simon Vouet, Undated, From the collection of: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Mrs Carl Meyer and her Children, John Singer Sargent, 1896, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Mina Moiseyev, Ivan Kramskoi, 1882, From the collection of: The State Russian Museum

Aristotle, Ribera, Jusepe de, 1637, From the collection of: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Portrait of Don Pedro de Barberana, Diego Velázquez, c. 1631–33, From the collection of: Kimbell Art Museum

Self-portrait in white jacket, Hugh Ramsay, (1901-1902), From the collection of: National Gallery of Victoria

Self-Portrait, George Richmond, 1809–1896, British, ca. 1830s, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates), Gilbert Stuart, 1793/1794, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Charles Kemble, Briggs, Henry Perronet, Before 1832, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Sisters (Eleanor and Rosalba Peale), Rembrandt Peale, 1826, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum

David with the Head of Goliath, Guido Cagnacci, about 1645–1650, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

(Main View), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Retrato de la esposa del autor, Ernesto DE LA CARCOVA, 1914, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina

Retrato de la Señora Elvira Lavalleja de Calzadilla, Prilidiano PUEYRREDON, ca. 1859, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina

Retrato de la Señora Adela Eastman de Barros, Prilidiano PUEYRREDON, 1865, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina

Retrato de mujer joven, Harmensz van Rijn REMBRANDT y Taller, 1634, From the collection of: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Argentina

Gertrudis Goméz de Avellaneda, Madrazo y Kuntz, Federico de, 1857, From the collection of: Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Old Man’s Head, Kārlis Hūns, 1872/1872, From the collection of: Latvian National Museum of Art

Portrait of M.I.Lopukhina, Vladimir Borovikovskiy, 1797, From the collection of: The State Tretyakov Gallery

Miss Amelia Van Buren, Thomas Eakinsq, circa 1891, From the collection of: The Phillips Collection

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, van Dyck, Sir Anthony, c. 1638, From the collection of: Dulwich Picture Gallery

Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck, c. 1623, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Marchesa Geronima Spinola, Anton van Dyck, around 1624, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

James Stuart, Duke of Lenox and Richmond, After Sir Anthony van Dyck, 17th century, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Colonel Alastair Ranaldson Macdonell of Glengarry (1771 - 1828), Henry Raeburn, exhibited 1812, From the collection of: National Galleries Scotland: National

Portrait of a Man in Classical Dress, possibly Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, Marcus Gheeraerts II, 1610, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Young Man in a Black Beret, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1666, From the collection of: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Man with the Golden Helmet, Rembrandt (circle), around 1650, From the collection of: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

An Unknown Man, George Chinnery, 1774–1852, British, ca. 1835, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), Cecilia Beaux, 1898, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Portrait of a Man, Frans Hals, 1630, From the collection of: Royal Collection Trust, UK

(Main View), From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Portrait of Senyora Espalter, Joaquim Espalter, 1852, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Pierre-Louis Laideguive, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Around 1761, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of the Painter Joaquim Vayreda, Antoni Caba, 1870, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Berber Bride, Josep Tapiró, Around 1896, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Young Woman Sleeping, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, Before 1710, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Woman's Head, Vicente López y Portaña, Around 1826, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of the Marquis of Labrador, Spanish Ambassador to the Congress of Vienna of 1915, Vicent López Portaña, Around 1833-1834, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of Marià Fortuny, Federico de Madrazo, 1867, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Sánchez the sailor, Federico de Madrazo, 1843, From the collection of: Museo Nacional del Romanticismo

Gertrudis Goméz de Avellaneda, Madrazo y Kuntz, Federico de, 1857, From the collection of: Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Portrait of Carlota Quintana Badia, Federico de Madrazo, 1869, From the collection of: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona

Portrait of a Young Lady, Amos Cassioli, 1880, From the collection of: Fondazione Musei Senesi

Emir of Lebanon, Borsos, József, 1843, From the collection of: Hungarian National Gallery

Portrait of an Eighty-Year Old Man, Michiel Mierevelt, 1624, From the collection of: Hallwyl Museum

Christoph Willibald Gluck, Joseph Siffred Duplessis, 1775, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Selfportrait, Peter Paul Rubens, 1633/1640, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Portrait of Captain Gideon de Wildt, Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1657, From the collection of: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Young Woman Sleeping, Theodoor van Loon (?), ca. 1630, From the collection of: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Abraham del Court and his wife Maria de Kaersgieter, Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1654, From the collection of: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Aristotle, Ribera, Jusepe de, 1637, From the collection of: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Philosopher Crates, Jusepe de Ribera, 1636, From the collection of: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Euclid, Jusepe de Ribera, about 1630–1635, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum

Double Portrait of Princes Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and Wilhelm zu Solms-Braunfels in a Cuirassier’s Uniform, Wilhelm von Schadow, 1830, From the collection of: Kunstpalast

Marchesa Balbi, Sir Anthony van Dyck, c. 1623, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Madame Bergeret, François Boucher, possibly 1766, From the collection of: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Comtesse d'Haussonville, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1845, From the collection of: The Frick Collection

Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris), ca. 1810, From the collection of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of the Countess of Tournon, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French, 1780 - 1867, 1812, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Endymion Porter, William Dobson, Around 1642, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Lady Bampfylde, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Around 1776, From the collection of: Tate Britain

Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve, Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723–1792, British, 1771, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Sarah Campbell, Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723–1792, British, 1777 to 1778, From the collection of: Yale Center for British Art

Old Woman in a White Bonnet, Karl Emanuel Jansson, 1867/1868, From the collection of: Ateneum Art Museum

Portrait of Professor Ivanov, Ilya Repin, 1882, From the collection of: Ateneum Art Museum

Vilhelm Rosenstand, P.S. Krøyer, 1886, From the collection of: Skagens Museum

Portrait of Karel van Mallery, Anthonie van Dyck, Unknown - 1641, From the collection of: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway

Sick Girl, Christian Krohg, (1881), From the collection of: The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway

Young Woman with a Carnation, Workshop of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1656, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Cathrine Jensen, née Lorenzen, the Artist's Wife Wearing a Turban, C.A. Jensen, 1842-1844, From the collection of: SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Portrait of a Lady with a Lapdog, Agnolo Bronzino, 1537 - 1540, From the collection of: Städel Museum

The Bitter Potion, Adriaen Brouwer, 1636 - 1638, From the collection of: Städel Museum

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This user gallery has been created by an independent third party and may not represent the views of the institutions whose collections include the featured works or of Google Arts & Culture.

Hallwyl Museum

SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst

Benaki Museum of Greek Civilization

The State Russian Museum

Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Kunstpalast

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hungarian National Gallery

Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The National Gallery, London

The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway