In Winterhalter’s 1855 group portrait of the Empress Eugénie and her entourage, the ladies are seated in decorative groupings. Within this larger-than-life sized work,...
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German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806—1873) is best known for his idealised portraits of European and Russian royalty that were influenced by the Rococo and...
Countess Maria Ivanovna Lamsdorff was twenty-four years old when she sat to Winterhalter, who was one of the premiere portraitists of the European nobility. Although...
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera “Vakula the Smith” (1874) was dedicated to her memory. She was born as Princess Frederika Charlotte Mariya (1807—1873); known after her...
Исторический портрет. Портрет для возможного нового фильма или игры. Вампир / Никита Бессережнев @nikitabesser @nikitabesser_p2reserve [#aristocrat ] [#vampire ]...
A Parisian artist Henri-Lucien Doucet (1856—1895) studied under Boulanger and Lefebvre. He painted in oils and pastels and his subjects varied from historical scenes and...
French female painter and illustrator Madeleine-Jeanne Lemaire (1845—1928) was born into the upper middle-class, the daughter of General Baron Joseph Habert and niece of...
Elaine Kilmurray, the author of Sargent’s catalogue raisonné, has identified Rose-Marie Ormond, the painter’s niece, as the woman in Montserrat’s The Lady with the...
John Singer Sargent's "Mrs. Cecil Wade" shows the 23-year-old wife of an English stockbroker occupying the spacious drawing room of her luxurious London townhome....
Hermann Winterhalter (1808—1891) was Franz Xaver’s younger brother and assistant as well as a painter in his own right, who had studied in Munich and Rome. Queen...
Lady Helen Venetia Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1866—1954) was a British noblewoman, socialite and diarist. She and her sister, Hermione, Duchess of Leinster, were...
Émile Eisman-Semenowsky (1857—1911) was most likely born in Poland, but worked in France. He was influenced by oriental subjects, a widespread phenomenon in French 19th...
Queen of Spain, Isabella II was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1830, the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria...
Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period Giuseppe Bonito (1707—1789), a favourite at the court of King Carlos and who, in 1748, had executed a series of nine paintings of...
Conrad Kiesel's (1846—1921) rendering of his sitters' delicate complexions and the soft, silky fabric of their gowns creates an enchanting impression of the scene. The...
Emily Treslove was John Constable’s (1776—1837) neighbour in Charlotte Street, the central London address of his spacious studio. In various diary entries, Emily...
Paul de la Boulaye (1849—1926) was a 19th century French painter who painted genre scenes of peasants, religiously inspired works, still-lifes, portraits and sumptuous...
Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Helene Luise Elisabeth; 1814—1858) was a French Crown Princess after her marriage in 1837 to the eldest son of Louis Philippe I,...
This is one of a pair of pastels, which were probably executed for the sitters' mother, Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales in c. 1764, possibly by a Scottish portrait...
Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859—1933) skilfully embeds the portrait of Corinna, then thirty-five years old, within an Empire salon, its walls covered in a sumptuous textile...
