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.

His portraits are notable for their disinclination to flatter, and in the case of Charles IV of Spain and His Family, the lack of visual diplomacy is remarkable.

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.

* The Jean Paul Museum in the former residence of Richard Wagner's daughter, Eva Chamberlain, with autographs, first editions of works, portraits and other pictorial material

* Norway's Prime Ministers – A pictorial with portraits of Norway's Prime Ministers ( Aftenposten )

The collection of c. 250 portraits provides a pictorial and sculptural record of Presidents, Fellows and other physicians associated with it from its foundation in 1518 to the present day.

Many of his portraits begin in an individual format, but many times the idealized figure degenerates and is presented in graphic rather than pictorial space.

It is claimed for him that he was one of the first engravers to show how admirably mezzotint could be applied to the translation of pictorial compositions as well as portraits, but at the present time it is to his portraits that most attention is given by collectors.

Celui qui peint des animaux vivants est plus estimable que ceux qui ne représentent que des choses mortes & sans mouvement ; & comme la figure de l ' homme est le plus parfait ouvrage de Dieu sur la Terre, il est certain aussi que celui qui se rend l ' imitateur de Dieu en peignant des figures humaines, est beaucoup plus excellent que tous les autres ... un Peintre qui ne fait que des portraits, n ' a pas encore cette haute perfection de l ' Art, & ne peut prétendre à l ' honneur que reçoivent les plus sçavans.

He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.

He not only made several excellent portraits of her but she was also a helpful stand-in for other sitters.

The earlier portraits of the artist are carefully finished, easy in action, with good drawing and excellent discrimination of character.

Many portraits were extremely flattering, which could be justified by an appeal to idealism as well as the sitter's vanity ; the theorist Armenini claimed in 1587 that " portraits by excellent artists are considered to be painted with better style and greater perfection than others, but more often than not they are less good likenesses ".

Celui qui peint des animaux vivants est plus estimable que ceux qui ne représentent que des choses mortes & sans mouvement ; & comme la figure de l ' homme est le plus parfait ouvrage de Dieu sur la Terre, il est certain aussi que celui qui se rend l ' imitateur de Dieu en peignant des figures humaines, est beaucoup plus excellent que tous les autres ... un Peintre qui ne fait que des portraits, n ' a pas encore cette haute perfection de l ' Art, & ne peut prétendre à l ' honneur que reçoivent les plus sçavans.

He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.

Her portraits are remarkable for excellent character drawing, breadth and vigour of handling and rich quality of pigment.

:... while at times his portraits are rather shallow, he was capable of excellent and sympathetic work, particularly in family and group portraits.

His later work included some excellent political portraits.

After 1846 he began to paint in oil, and left a large number of excellent portraits in this medium.

In Geneva, Juel soon earned himself a reputation as an excellent artist, and he painted many portraits.

He published first novel was A Clever Wife ( 1895 ), but he secured his first striking success with his fifth, Mord Em ' ly ( 1898 ), an excellent example of his ability to draw humorous portraits of lower class life.

The most important works include Maso di Banco's Coronation of the Virgin, Sassetta's Saint Thomas Aquinas at Prayer, Domenico Ghirlandaio's Saint Stephen Martyr, Gentile Bellini's Portrait of Caterina Cornaro, Giorgione's Portrait of a Young Man, Raphael's Esterhazy Madonna, Correggio's Madonna and Child with an Angel, three works by Sebastiano del Piombo, Bronzino's Adoration of the Shepherds as well as his Venus, Cupid and Jealousy, Titian's Portrait of Doge Marcantonio Trevisani, Tintoretto's Supper at Emmaus, Tiepolo's St James the Greater in the Battle of Clavijo, Dürer's Portrait of a Young Man, Bernard van Orley's Portrait of Emperor Charles V, eight pictures by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's St John the Baptist Preaching, Rubens's Mucius Scaevola Before Porsenna, two excellent portraits by Frans Hals, and a particularly strong collection of works by Spanish masters including El Greco, Velázquez and Goya.

After painting for some time in Florence, and having married at the age of forty the daughter of the rich sculptor named Giovanni Francesco Susini, Lippi went as court painter to Innsbruck, where he has left many excellent portraits.

Skilled in the depiction of Mediterranean landscapes, he is also the author of many excellent portraits and still lifes.