Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Named Face

Pierre-Michel Alix
Jean-Paul Marat
1793
color aquatint
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts


Frédéric Bazille
Edouard Blau
ca. 1869
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Giuseppe Boschi
Cicero
1793
bronze
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Philippe de Champaigne
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly
1667
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

William Daniell after George Dance
Bennet Langton
1809
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Clae Eastgate
Carol Ann Duffy
2016
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Michele Gordigiani
Francesco Silvio Orlandini
1860
oil on canvas
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Florence

Augustus John
T.E. Lawrence
1929
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Ludovico Lipparini
Leopoldo Cicognara
1825
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Man Ray
Marcel Proust
1922
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Norman McBeath
Don Paterson
2002
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Alexander Moffat
Muriel Spark
1984
oil on canvas
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Irving Penn
Truman Capote
1948
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Pope Urban VIII Barberini
ca. 1630
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Alexander Roslin
Jean-François Marmontel
1767
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Walter Sickert
Max Beerbohm
ca. 1912
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Jean-Baptiste Stouf
Michel de Montaigne
1800
marble
Musée du Louvre

Comfort to a Youth that had Lost his Love

What needs complaints,
When she a place
Has with the race
        Of saints?

In endless mirth
She thinks not on
What's said or done
        In Earth.

She sees no tears,
Or any tone
Of thy deep groan
        She hears:

Nor does she mind
Or think on 't now
That ever thou
        Wast kind;

But changed above,
She likes not there,
As she did here,
        Thy love.

Forbear therefore,
And lull asleep
Thy woes, and weep
        No more.

– Robert Herrick (1591-1674)