 |
| Gerard Donck Married couple Marritgen Pieters and Nicolaes Willemsz Lossy 1633 oil on panel Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha |
 |
| Jacob Adriaensz Backer Portrait of a Merchant and his Wife ca. 1638 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims |
-1767-oil-on-canvas-Huntington-Library-and-Art-Museum-San-Marino.jpeg) |
| Francis Cotes Portrait of Thomas and Isabel Crathorne (Thomas had died 3 years earlier) 1767 oil on canvas Huntington Library and Art Museum, San Marino |
-Cooper-Hewitt-Smithsonian-Design-Museum.jpg) |
| Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot L'Epoux à la Grecque 1771 etching (fanciful figure with architectural elements) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
-Cooper-Hewitt-Smithsonian-Design-Museum.jpg) |
| Benigno Bossi after Ennemond-Alexandre Petitot La Mariée à la Grecque 1771 etching (fanciful figure with architectural elements) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
 |
| Karl Wilhelm Both Jeanette Marguerite and Johann David Wunderly ca. 1830 oil on canvas Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel |
 |
| Henry Ossawa Tanner Portrait of Mr and Mrs Atherton Curtis with Still Life ca. 1900 oil on panel Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
 |
| Henrik Sørensen Man and Wife ca. 1914 oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo |
 |
| Alvin Langdon Coburn Portrait of Grace and E. McKnight Kauffer 1916 gelatin silver print Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
 |
| Conrad Felixmüller The Artist and his Wife 1921 color woodblock print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
 |
| Bruce Davidson The Misfits - Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller 1960 gelatin silver print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
-1968-acrylic-on-canvas-Art-Institute-of-Chicago.jpg) |
| David Hockney American Collectors (Fred and Marcia Weisman) 1968 acrylic on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
-National-Portrait-Gallery-Washington-DC.jpg) |
| Robert Remsen Vickrey Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis 1968 tempera on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
 |
| Michael Jacques Williamstown's First Couple 1976 etching and aquatint Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
-Doubs-1980-gelatin-silver-print-National-Gallery-of-Canada-Ottawa.jpg) |
| Pierre Gaudard My Parents - Marvelise, Doubs 1980 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
 |
| Roger Ballen Prison Warden and Wife, Southern Transvaal 1986 inkjet print Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
 |
| Thomas Struth Kyoko and Tomoharu Murakami, Tokyo 1991 C-print Tate Modern, London |
from Upon the Duke of Yorke his Birth: A Panegyricke.
But stay, what glimpse was that? why blusht the day?
Why ran the started aire trembling away?
Who's this that comes circled in rayes, that scorne
Acquaintance with the Sunne? what second Morne
At mid-day opes a presence which Heavens eye
At mid-day opes a presence which Heavens eye
Stands off and points at? is't some Deity
Stept from her Throne of starres deignes to be seene?
Is it some Deity? or is't our Queene?
'Tis shee, 'tis shee: her awful Beauties chase
The Dayes abashed Glories, and in face
Of Noone weare their owne Sunshine, ô thou bright
Mistresse of wonders! Cynthia's is the Night,
Mistresse of wonders! Cynthia's is the Night,
But thou at Noone dost shine, and art all Day,
(Nor does the Sunne deny't) our Cynthia,
Illustrious sweetnesse! In thy faithfull wombe,
That Nest of Heroes, all our hopes finde roome.
Thou art the Mother Phœnix, and thy Breast
Chast as that Virgin honour of the East,
But much more fruitfull is; nor does, as shee,
Deny to mighty Love a Deity.
Then let the Easterne world bragge and be proud
Of one coy Phœnix, while we have a brood,
A brood of Phœnixes; while we have Brother
And Sister Phœnixes, and still a Mother;
And may we long; long may'st thou live, t'encrease
The house and family of Phœnixes.
A brood of Phœnixes; while we have Brother
And Sister Phœnixes, and still a Mother;
And may we long; long may'st thou live, t'encrease
The house and family of Phœnixes.
– Richard Crashaw, The Delights of the Muses (1646)