Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

As has been mentioned and as will be explained in depth below, there are pieces where Aelbert provided the landscape background for his father ’ s portraits.

Among her portraits which followed from that association are those of Georges Clemenceau ; First Lady Edith Roosevelt and her daughter ; and Admiral Sir David Beatty.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

His family group portraits are often faceless, which Alston states is the way that white America views blacks.

Goya's works from 1814 to 1819 are mostly commissioned portraits, but also include the altarpiece of Santa Justa and Santa Rufina for the Cathedral of Seville, the print series of La Tauromaquia depicting scenes from bullfighting, and probably the etchings of Los Disparates.

When a freedman of Nero was giving a gladiatorial show at Antium, the public porticoes were covered with paintings, so we are told, containing life-like portraits of all the gladiators and assistants.

The portraits of Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, and Qianlong Emperor are excellent examples of realistic Chinese portrait painting.

His talents are varied, and he produced a great and extensive variety of work from portraits, woodcuts, altarpieces, drawing, tapestries, allegories and mythologies.

Baldung's most sustained effort is the altarpiece of Freiburg, where the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Twelve Apostles, the Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity and Flight into Egypt, and the Crucifixion, with portraits of donors, are executed with some of that fanciful power that Martin Schongauer bequeathed to the Swabian school.

They are broadly similar in style, though often much superior in quality, to the mummy portraits done in wax ( encaustic ) and found at Fayyum in Egypt.

* Monroe is the last president who had never been photographed and whose portraits are preserved today only on paintings.

These portraits are a unique example of art during Jahangir's reign because before, and for sometime after, faces were not drawn full, head-on and including the shoulders as well as the head as these drawings are.

The majority of the pictures are of various people encountered on the trip, as informal portraits or showing them engaged in some interesting activity.

Mannerist portraits by Agnolo Bronzino are distinguished by a still elegance and meticulous attention to detail.

Roses are a favored subject in art and appear in portraits, illustrations, on stamps, as ornaments or as architectural elements.

The main body of Anguissola's earlier work consists of self-portraits ( the many " autoritratti " reflect the fact that portraits of her were frequently requested due to her fame ) and portraits of her family, which are considered by many to be her finest works.

The five extant monumental church portraits of the queen are clearly modeled on the Byzantine imagery, but also highlight specifically Georgian themes with an affinity to Iranian-type ideals of female beauty.

The manuscript is " the most beautifully illumined German manuscript in centuries ;" its 137 miniatures are a series of " portraits " depicting each poet.

In the portraits, some of the nobles are shown in full armour in their heraldic colors and devices ( therefore with their faces hidden ), often shown as taking part in a joust, or sometimes in single combat with sword and shield, and sometimes in actual battle.

These intimate family scenes are, however, in contrast to the ' licentious ' style, as seen in his Odalisque portraits.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and depiction of human isolation.

By now, to keep up with the demand for replicas of his portraits, he was making use of studio assistants, most notable of whom would be William Etty and George Henry Harlow.

In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family, other notable European figures, and commoners, culminating in the production of his masterpiece Las Meninas ( 1656 ).

On the opposite side stands the Hall, constructed in 1618, notable for its vaulted ceilings and numerous fine portraits, underneath which is the College bar.

The portraits in the Hall include the work of notable artists ; among the portraits of principals is Sir J. J. Shannon's portrait of Dame Elizabeth, Philip de Laszlo's of Miss Jex-Blake, Sir Rodrigo Moynihan's of Dr Grier and Maud Sumner's of Miss Sutherland.

The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.

The East Front of unsurpassed length is credibly said to have been built as the result of a rivalry with the Stainborough branch of the Wentworth family, which inherited the Great Strafford's minor title of Baron Raby, but not his estates, which went to Watson, including the notable series of Strafford portraits by Anthony van Dyck and Daniel Mytens, who thereupon added Wentworth to his surname.

The need to collect reliable portraits of notable figures from history for this project led to the foundation of the National Portrait Gallery, which was formally established on 2 December 1856.

Another notable expatriate artist of the era was Rupert Bunny, a painter of landscape, allegory and sensual and intimate portraits.

As in Colonial America, many of the painters who specialized in portraits were essentially self-taught ; notable among them are Joseph Badger, John Brewster, Jr., and William Jennys.

Hung on the walls of the hall are 15 portraits of notable benefactors and past members.

Opie painted many notable men and women of the day including Mary Wollstonecraft, Samuel Johnson, Francesco Bartolozzi, John Bannister, Joseph Munden, Charles James Fox, William Betty, Edmund Burke, John Crome, James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Girtin, Robert Southey, Samuel Parr, Elizabeth Inchbald and Mary Shelley ; 508 portraits in all, most in oil, and 252 other pictures.

His guineas are notable for using five different portraits of the king, and the 1714 coin is notable for declaring him to be Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

From the creation of the United Kingdom, the English school of painting is mainly notable for portraits and landscapes, and indeed portraits in landscapes.

In the late 1840s, Kuniyoshi began again to illustrate actor prints, this time evading censorship ( or simply evoking creativity ) through childish, cartoon-like portraits of famous kabuki actors, the most notable being " Scribbling on the storehouse wall " ( Nitakaragurakabe no mudagaki ).

Another notable expatriate artist of the era was Rupert Bunny, a painter of landscape, allegory and sensual and intimate portraits.

Freeman Thorp ( 1844 – 1922 ), born in Geneva, Ohio, was an American painter who painted portraits of many notable people such as Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Ulysses Grant, Simon Cameron, Salmon Chase, Robert Smith, Horace Greeley, Walter Forward and Robert E. Lee.

Among his early canvasses, the self-portraits and the portraits of clowns have been discussed as particularly notable samples of Romanian Expressionism.

He painted portraits of many notable people, including American presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Chief Justice John Marshall, and John C. Calhoun.