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 |