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| Giles Hussey Head of a Man before 1788 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| John Hamilton Mortimer Head Study before 1779 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Joshua Reynolds Self Portrait at age 26 1750 drawing British Museum |
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| George Stubbs Self Portrait ca. 1759 oil on copper Yale Center for British Art |
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| Frederic, Lord Leighton Head of an Italian Man ca. 1864 oil on canvas Leighton House Museum, London |
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| Edwin Long Glauke: Pensive 1883 oil on canvas Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth |
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| Ottilie Roederstein The Victor 1898 oil on canvas Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Henry Siddons Mowbray The Calenders (Sufic Mendicant Dervishes) 1889 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| E.M. Sargant Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1877 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Alphonse Legros Portrait Study of Two Girls before 1911 drawing British Museum |
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| Charles Robinson Angelic Child with a Lantern ca. 1912 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Albert Henry Collings Kimono and Kylin 1917 oil on canvas (this painting was destroyed by fire in 2004) formerly Ramsgate Library, Kent |
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| Albert Henry Collings Victoria Florence de Burgh Long, Lady Gibbs 1908 oil on canvas National Trust, Tyntesfield, Bristol |
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| Gino Severini Woman at the Window 1914 pastel on paper Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Paul Cadmus Jerry 1931 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Alan Beeton Girl in a Wood ca. 1926 oil on canvas Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester |
"I do not want people to be very agreeable,
as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
– Jane Austen to her sister in a letter of 1798