Significant Expressions

Anonymous Painter working in England
Eye of Young Woman
1816
watercolor on ivory
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of Catherine Spencer,
daughter of Baron Spencer of Wormleighton
ca. 1652
oil on panel
Rubenshuis, Antwerp

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
ca. 1660-70
oil on canvas
(posthumous copy of earlier portrait, now lost)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Anonymous Painter working in England
Portrait of Sir William Butts
ca. 1525-50
tempera and oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Anonymous Painter working in Canada
Portrait of Marie Melanie Quesnel
ca. 1810
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Anonymous Painter working in Canada
Portrait of Mrs Charles Morrison
ca. 1830-35
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anonymous Painter working in Germany
Erdmutha Sophia Friederica von und zu der Tann
1778
oil on canvas
Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel

Anonymous Painter working in Germany
Portrait of John III Sobieski, King of Poland
ca. 1680-1700
oil on canvas
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Anonymous Painter working in India
Portrait of General Gerard Lake
ca. 1807-1810
gouache on paper
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Anonymous Painter working in India
Portrait of Prince Sabal Singh of Badnor
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Anonymous Painter working in Mexico
Portrait of Doña María Dolores del Río y Alday
1780
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous Painter working in Mexico
Mother Ana María of the Precious Blood of Christ
1770
oil on canvas
Denver Art Museum

Anonymous Painter working in the Netherlands
Portrait of Pope Adrian VI
ca. 1625
oil on panel
(copy of lost portrait by Jan van Scorel, ca. 1522-23, 
representing the only Pope native to the Netherlands)
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Anonymous Painter working in Switzerland
Portrait of Georgius Ottly
1566
watercolor and gouache on paper
Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Anonymous Painter working in the USA
Portrait of Fannie and Willie Farnsworth
ca. 1840
oil on canvas
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Anonymous Photographer working in the Netherlands
Flora
1994
Polaroid
Kunstmuseum, The Hague

Circe's Grief

In the end, I made myself 

known to your wife as

a god would, in her own house, in

Ithaca, a voice

without a body: she

paused in her weaving, her head turning

first to the right, then left

though it was hopeless of course

to trace that sound to any

objective source: I doubt

she will return to her loom

with what she knows now. When

you see her again, tell her

this is how a god says goodbye:

if I am in her head forever

I am in your life forever.

– Louise Glück (1996)