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| David Williams Don Paterson 2008 pigment print Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck Guillaume Apollinaire ca. 1904-1905 oil on board Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Cecilia Vicuña Karl Marx 1972 oil on canvas Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Hiroshi Sugimoto Oscar Wilde 1999 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| John Thomas Smith (Antiquity Smith) Isaac Newton 1828 watercolor on paper British Museum |
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| Auguste Rodin Honoré de Balzac 1897 bronze Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean-Baptiste Pigalle Voltaire 1776 marble Musée du Louvre |
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| Francesco de Mura Saint Matthew before 1782 drawing British Museum |
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| Rollie McKenna James Merrill 1956 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Man Ray H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ca. 1925 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Rudolf Lehmann Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1859 drawing British Museum |
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| William Hatfield Samuel Johnson ca. 1780 enamel on copper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Mary Lloyd Estrin Joan Didion 1977 gelatin silver print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| John Singleton Copley Epes Sargent ca. 1760 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Étienne Carjat Émile Zola ca. 1862 Woodburytype print Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| William Blake after George Romney William Cowper 1801 watercolor on paper Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Mary Bradish Titcomb The Writer ca. 1912 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Sic Vita
Like to the falling of a star,
Or as the flights of eagles are,
Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue,
Or silver drops of morning dew,
Or like a wind that chafes the flood,
Or bubbles which on water stood:
Even such is man, whose borrowed light
Is straight called in, and paid to night.
The wind blows out, the bubble dies;
The spring entombed in autumn lies;
The dew dries up, the star is shot;
The flight is past: and man forgot.
– Henry King (1592-1669)