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| Anonymous English Painter Portrait of a Woman ca. 1545 oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Domenico Tintoretto Portrait of a Woman ca. 1590-1600 oil on canvas Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
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| Orazio Borgianni Self Portrait ca. 1615 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Hendrick Bloemaert The Poulterer ca. 1627-30 drawing (print study) British Museum |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of Margaret Lemon ca. 1638 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Diego Velázquez Portrait of Archbishop Fernando de Valdés ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Flanders- Portrait of a Cavaliere ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Joseph Vivien Self Portrait 1699 pastel on paper Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Louis Tocqué Madame Dangé faisant des noeuds 1753 oil on copper Musée du Louvre |
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| Lorenzo Tiepolo Portrait of a Masked Woman ca. 1760 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Caroline Bardua Portrait of painter Caspar David Friedrich 1810 oil on canvas Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| David Wilkie Portrait of the artist's sister Helen ca. 1822-23 oil on panel Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Auguste Vacquerie Portrait of Victor Hugo 1853 salted paper print Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Max Beckmann Self Portrait 1908 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Allen Tucker Bizarre 1928 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Joel-Peter Witkin The Beautiful Man 1982 gelatin silver print San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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| John Bellany Billy Connolly, b. 1942, entertainer 1994 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh |
from Statement
One makes leather instruments of torture for titled masochists; one makes ink for his son out of oak galls and rusty nails. One makes bedsteads, adorned with carvings, at the request of friends. One in a red-brick villa makes designs for a bridge, creates beauty for a purpose. One is eloquent, persuades committees of the value of spending; one announces weddings in a solemn voice. One is told secrets at night, can stop a young girl biting her nails. One can extirpate a goiter with little risk. One can foretell the migration of mackerel; one can distinguish the eggs of sea-birds. One is a lightning calculator; he is a young one. One is clumsy but amazes by his knowledge of time-tables. One delivers buns in a van, halting at houses. One can emend a mutilated text; one can estimate the percentage of moisture in a sample of trees.
– W.H. Auden, The Orators (1931)