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| Hans Krell Princess Emilia of Saxony at age sixteen 1532 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| David Jones Self Portrait 1928 oil on canvas Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
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| Alex Katz Study for Portrait of Evelyn Nef 1974 oil on board Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Cornelius Johnson Portrait of Madame Tulp 1660 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Roger Huyssen Washington hostess Tish Baldridge 1978 acrylic on board (commissioned by Time magazine) National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Gaston Lachaise Head 1923-24 marble Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Ludolf de Jongh Catholic controversialist Willem de Swaen 1652 oil on panel Museum Gouda, Netherlands |
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| Ivan Kramskoy Portrait of art historian Adrian Prakhov 1879 oil on canvas State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
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| Jan Kupecký Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Hurter of Schaffhausen ca. 1710 drawing Graphische Sammlung, Zentralbibliothek Zürich |
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| Christen Købke Portrait of merchant Andreas Reiersen 1834 oil on canvas Ordrupgaard Art Museum, Copenhagen |
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| John Hoppner Portrait of Lady Mary Hope ca. 1790 oil on canvas Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee |
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| Nathaniel Hone the Elder Portrait of William Henry (surname unknown) 1776 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| Nathaniel Hone the Elder Portrait of Charlotte Augusta Matilda (surname unknown) 1776 oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California |
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| William Hogarth Portrait of Elizabeth James 1744 oil on canvas Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Gerrit van Honthorst Shepherdess with Pigeons ca. 1625 oil on canvas Centraal Museum, Utrecht |
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| Fritz Hickmann Portrait of a Woman 1855 oil on canvas, mounted on panel Frye Art Museum, Seattle |
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| William H. Johnson Women Builders 1945 oil on board Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
from Silvae
And so Death took him. Yet be comforted:
Above this sea of sorrow lift thy head.
Death – or his shadow – look, is over all;
What but an alternating funeral
The long procession of the nights and days?
The starry heavens fail, the solid earth
Fails and its fashion. Why, beholding this,
Why with our wail o'er sad mortality
Mourn we for men, mere men, that fade and fall?
Battle or shipwreck, love or lunacy,
Some warp o' the will, some taint o' the blood, some touch
Of winter's icy breath, the Dog-star's rage
Relentless, or the dank and ghostly mists
Of Autumn – any or all of these suffice
To die by. In the fee and fear of Fate
Lives all that is. We one by one depart
Into the silence – one by one. The judge
Shakes the vast urn: the lot leaps forth: we die.