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| follower of Leonardo da Vinci Narcissus ca. 1490 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Raphael Head of a Youth 1514 drawing (study for fresco in the Stanza di Eliodoro, Vatican) Musée du Louvre |
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| Anonymous Lombard Artist St Jerome ca. 1500-1510 oil on panel Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia |
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| Anonymous Florentine Artist after Michelangelo Buonarroti Ideal Head of a Warrior ca. 1550-1600 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Jacques Parmentier and William Kent Portrait of a Man ca. 1680-1720 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Godfrey Kneller Portrait Study of a Young Man ca. 1720 drawing British Museum |
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| Giles Hussey Portrait Study of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender (in exile in Rome) ca. 1733-37 drawing British Museum |
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| Prince Hoare Portrait of artist John Opie ca. 1790-1800 pastel on paper, mounted on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Anonymous Copyist after Francesco Laurana Bust of a Woman 19th century plaster cast (marble original, now in Berlin, dated ca. 1473) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Benjamin Evans Portrait of artist Augustus John ca. 1898-1900 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| George Frampton Lamia 1899-1900 ivory, bronze, opals, glass Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Carel Weight Portrait of the Artist's Mother ca. 1928-29 oil on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| George Spencer Watson Mary 1932 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Orovida Pissarro Lebeide with Sulin 1943 oil on paper, mounted on cardboard Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Ruskin Spear Man in a Pub ca. 1960-70 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Rob Petherick Portrait of artist Norman Blamey 1996 gelatin silver print Royal Academy of Arts, London |
from Silver Roses
The strings, as if they knew
the lovers are about to meet, begin
to soar, and when he marches in the door
they soar some more – half ecstasy, half pain,
the musical equivalent of rain –
while children who have grown up with one stare
steal further looks across a crowded room,
as goners tend to do.
My father loved it too,
warned me at dinner that he'd be a wreck
long before the final trio came
(Ja, ja, she sighed, and gave him up forever);
he found his Sophe better late than never
and took the fifth about his silent tears . . .
– Rachel Wetzsteon (2010)