Aegidius Sadeler after Bartholomeus Spranger Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Elder 1606 engraving Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
Giandomenico Tiepolo Portrait of Giambattista Tiepolo ca. 1771-74 etching Yale University Art Gallery |
Archibald Skirving Portrait of Gavin Hamilton ca. 1788 pastel Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
George Richmond Portrait of Samuel Palmer ca. 1830 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Heinrich Maria von Hess Portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen 1832 oil on panel Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
Joseph Ernest von Bandel Portrait Bust of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld 1833 plaster Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
John Steell Portrait Bust of David Scott ca. 1840 marble Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
Patric Park Portrait Bust of David Octavius Hill ca. 1850 marble Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
Aimé-Jules Dalou Head of Alphonse Legros ca. 1876 bronze National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
John Singer Sargent Portrait of Carolus-Duran 1879 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Charlotte Wankel Four Artists 1936 oil on canvas National Gallery of Norway, Oslo |
Lee Miller Paul Delvaux, Brussels 1944 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Lee Miller Giorgio Morandi, Venice 1948 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Lee Miller Oskar Kokoschka, London 1950 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Richard Hamilton Portrait of the Artist by Francis Bacon 1970-71 screenprint and collotype (derived from Polaroid of Hamilton taken by Bacon) Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
Robert Mapplethorpe Portrait of Alice Neel 1984 gelatin silver print Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
from Melancholy of the Autumn Garden
There's no such thing as the completely wasted life,
Just lives of varying degrees of opacity and transparency,
Through which the limits of the visible appear.
Just lives of varying degrees of opacity and transparency,
Through which the limits of the visible appear.
– John Koethe (2016)