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Oil portrait of a man in a black wide-brimmed hat, black cloak and white collar against a brown background.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Frans Hals, 1650/1652

Bust-length portrait of a man with powdered white hair in a dark blue uniform with gold epaulette and yellow waistcoat.

General William Smallwood

Robert Edge Pine, 1785/1788

Painting of an old bearded man pointing in anger at a kneeling young man covering his ears, with two women in grief.

Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices

Henry Fuseli, 1786

Painting of the Virgin Mary in a blue mantle with gold trim holding the nude infant Christ against a dark background.

Madonna and Child

Dirck Bouts, c. 1465

Seated woman in black dress with quill and manuscripts beside a rose vase, in a Gothic-windowed interior.

Portrait of Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) (1776-1859), Writer

René Théodore Berthon, 1818

Oil portrait of a man with brown hair and whiskers in a dark jacket and white shirt against a dark background.

Self-Portrait

George Francis Mulvany

Oil portrait of a young man with brown hair turned to the left against a dark background, dated 1772.

Robert Fergusson, 1750 - 1774. Poet

Alexander Runciman, 1772

Oil portrait of a man with a large moustache in a dark suit and white collar against a brown background.

Sir William Alexander Smith, 1854 - 1914. Founder of the Boys' Brigade

Alexander Ignatius Roche, 1910

Oval portrait of an elderly man with white curly hair in a green coat with fur collar and a red ribbon medal.

Portrait de Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729-1817), compositeur

Robert Lefèvre, 1813

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Portrait de Marc-Antoine Jullien, dit de Paris (1775-1848), journaliste et écrivain politique

Aimée Brune, 1832

Night scene of a columned temple with an urn beside a torch-lit basin, with dark figures gathered in the foreground.

Le Mausolée provisoire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, sur le bassin des Tuileries, avant la translation de ses cendres au…

Hubert Robert, 1794

Oval miniature of a young woman in a pale blue bonnet and shawl, smiling faintly, in an ornate gilt frame.

Portrait d'une jeune femme en mante bleutée

Ecole française, 1785

Painting of a man in a hat carrying a bucket with a young girl beside him on a dark forest path.

Jean Valjean et Cosette

Jean Geoffroy, 1882

Full-length portrait of a military officer in blue uniform with gold braid, holding a sabre before a smoky battlefield with c

Portrait du général Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo

Eugène Devéria

Night landscape of a foaming torrent over dark rocks, with glowing autumn trees under a dark blue sky.

Le Torrent. Environs de Clermont-Ferrand

Félix Ziem, 1880

Night street scene of firefighters with a pump cart and smoke, with onlookers gathered among stone buildings.

Pompiers courant à un incendie

Gustave Courbet, 1851

Painting of a bearded friar in a brown hooded habit holding a white lily branch beside an open book on a dark background.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Half-length portrait of a man in a red embroidered coat, blue sash and white wig against a dark background.

Charles IV, King of Spain

Agustín Esteve, 1789

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark coat and white collar, holding a folded paper and hat against a dark background.

Le Bouffon Francisco Bazán Spanish: El bufón Francisco Bazán

Juan Carreño de Miranda, 1684

Portrait of a woman in black bodice and red corset holding a yellow flower, with a feathered hat and stone doorway.

Lady with a Yellow Flower

Adriaen van Cronenburg, 1567

Painting of a woman in a white veil and dark habit looking upward with clasped hands against a dark background.

Weeping Female Saint

Luis Tristán, 1616

Painting of the dead Christ supported by the grieving Virgin Mary, with an angel in shadow and a gilded urn at right.

Pieta

Daniele Crespi, 1626

Painting of a dead white cock hanging by a cord above a wooden ledge against a dark background.

"Dead Cock"

Gabriel Metsu, 1659

Oval half-length portrait of a young man in a grey wig, white lace cravat, blue sash and gold embroidered dress.

Philip V

Miguel Jacinto Meléndez, 1718

Painting of a bishop rising into clouds with angels while a crowd of clergy and townspeople kneels and gestures below.

Saint Augustine vanquishing the Plague of Locusts

Miguel Jacinto Meléndez, 1734

Oil portrait of a young man in a powdered wig, blue velvet coat, red sash and star insignia, against a dark background.

The Dauphin Louis de Bourbon

Hubert Drouais, 1744

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat with one hand on his hip, against a dim brown background.

Segismundo Moret y Quintana

Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1855

Three nude men in a dark interior; one raises a whip while the central bound figure looks downward.

La flagelación, de un seguidor de Miguel Ángel

a follower of Michelangelo, 1550

Three men laughing around a wooden table in a dark interior, one in a tall black hat holding up a sheet of paper.

Burlesque trio

Joos van Craesbeeck, 1650

Painting of a forest clearing with a crouching hunter, white hound, and grey horse with red saddle cloth at left.

Philip IV hunting Deer

Peter Snayers, 1636