Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Full Face (before 1800)

Michiel Sweerts
Portrait of a Girl
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester

Joseph Highmore
Head of a Boy
ca. 1735
oil on canvas
Yale Center for British Art

Roman Egypt
Mummy Portrait of a Man with a Wreath
2nd-3rd century AD
encaustic on wood
National Gallery, London

John Hoppner
Sketch for the Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1790
oil on canvas
Maidstone Museum, Kent

Johannes Verelst
Portrait of a Gentleman
1699
oil on canvas
National Trust, Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire

attributed to George Jamesone
Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1610-20
oil on canvas
National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge

from The Old Familiar Faces

How some they have died, and some they have left me,
And some are taken from me; all are departed;
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

– Charles Lamb (1798)

Joos van Cleve
Portrait of a Man in Black with an Emerald Ring
ca. 1535-40
oil on panel
National Trust, Petworth House, Sussex

Juan Bautista MaĆ­no
Portrait of a Monk
ca. 1615
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Dobson
Portrait of Sir Edward Nicholas
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Hans Memling
Portrait of a Donor
before 1494
oil on panel
(fragment of diptych)
National Trust, Upton House, Warwickshire

Domenico Ghirlandaio
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1477-78
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
 
Lucas van Leyden
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1521
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Frans Pourbus the Younger
Portrait of a Man
1591
oil on panel
Temple Newsam House, Leeds

John Russell
King Charles I
ca. 1630
oil on panel
Dover Collections, Kent

attributed to Theodore Russel
Portrait of James Cranfield
ca. 1645
oil on panel
National Trust, Knole, Kent