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Portraits

23,970 works

Brown ink wash drawing of a bearded old man in a tall cap, head turned three-quarters, on aged paper.

Bearded Man Wearing a Cap

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740-45

Head of a Man in Profile to the Left

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1740-45

Ellen Julia Hollond. Lithograph by L. Haghe, 1841

Chalk drawing on brown paper of a veiled woman's head with lowered eyes, lit by white highlights.

Head of the Virgin

Giacomo Cavedone, c. 1614

Etched portrait of a bearded man with curled hair holding a mask, with a Latin inscription below.

Giovanni Gabrielli ("Sivello") holding a mask. Etching by Agostino Carracci, ca. 1599

Agostino Carracci

Self-Portrait with Portrait of Delacroix

George Sand, c. 1845

Coloured lithograph portrait of a Seneca leader in feathered headdress holding a pipe and tomahawk, 1836.

Cornplanter, a leader of the Seneca tribe, holding a smoking pipe with pipe attachments and axe-blades. Colour lithog…

Brown ink and wash sketch of a crowd around a preaching figure with a raised arm, and a bearded head at lower right.

A Saint Preaching, and the Head of an Oriental

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, ca. 1759

Drawing of a man with long wavy hair, mustache and short beard, turned three-quarters, on tinted paper.

Portrait of a Man

Albrecht Dürer, probably 1510

Etching of an elderly man in a head wrap propped in bed, with a hanging stocking and framed picture on the wall behind him.

David Ferguson, aged 123. Etching by T. Landseer, 1817, after H. Wrighte

Five caricature profiles of pharmacy-related men in a lithograph, with exaggerated noses and expressions, labeled in French.

A druggist, a pharmacy student, a pounder (of medicine), a chemist and a pharmacist. Lithograph by J. Platier, 1842

Hand-coloured lithograph of a boy with enormously long, tangled hair beside a dressing table and mirror, by Paul Gavarni.

A boy with incredibly long hair growing from his head and hands as a result of playing with a hair restorer. Coloured…

Brown ink and wash drawing of a reclining stag on a stone base, with a crocodile head sketched below.

A Stag Lying Down (on a base): The Head of a Crocodile

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after 1770

Pencil drawing of a shirtless man with shoulder-length hair raising one arm and pointing upward against a pale background.

Man with Upraised Arm, Possibly a Self-Portrait

Gustave Courbet, ca. 1840

Self-Portrait

Jean-Louis Forain

Etched portrait of a bearded woman in a period gown with a white collar, beside a small organ with pipes.

Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1656

Richard Gaywood

Charcoal sketch of a man in bust portrait with direct gaze, loose shading, and handwritten inscription dated November 1923.

Self-Portrait

Lovis Corinth, 1923

Engraving of Thomas Topham standing atop a wooden scaffold above three barrels, with diagonal bracing beams below.

Thomas Topham, lifting 1836 lbs. Etching, 1820, after C. Leigh

Head of a Young Man in Profile with a Gun over His Shoulder

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, c. 1730/40s

Brown ink drawing of a man in a cocked hat and coat, turned three-quarters toward the viewer, by Goya.

Self-Portrait in a Cocked Hat

Francisco Goya, ca. 1790

Pencil study of a young woman turning her head, with draped shoulders and a sketched hand at lower right.

Study for "Raphael and the Fornarina"(?)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, ca. 1814(?)

Soft grey chalk portrait of a woman with upswept hair, fur collar, and drop earring, turned slightly toward the viewer.

Portrait of Séverine

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1885-87

Pencil and red chalk portrait of a young woman with curled hair, coral necklace and white dress on tan paper.

Portrait of a Young Lady with an Amber Necklace

Thomas Lawrence, 1814

Monochrome portrait of a man in an ornate braided military uniform holding a tasselled sword against a dark background.

King George IV when Prince of Wales as Colonel of the tenth Light Dragoons. Photogravure, 1905, after W. Beechey

William Beechey

Lithograph of a small boy in a formal suit beside a desk with inkwell, quill, books, and champagne bottle.

Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, aged twelve. Lithograph by C. Baugniet, 1844

Charles Baugniet

Watercolor of a dancer in a blue gown holding red flowers, with a severed head on a dish at left and a seated figure at right

Salomé Dancing Before the Head of St. John the Baptist

Gustave Moreau, mid to late 19th century

Etched street scene of Tunbridge Wells with colonnaded shops and elegantly dressed figures walking under tall trees.

Tunbridge Wells, Kent: important figures of the town. Etching by E.F. Finden

Edward Francis Finden

Sir Andrew Clark. Photogravure after R. Lehmann

Pen and brown ink sketch of a bowed figure in a hood, head tilted downward, with loose hatched shading on beige paper.

Head of a Woman

Head of a Buffalo, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1800

Etching of a bearded man seated by a window reading a sheet, with a crucifixion triptych and skull on a table.

Abraham Francen, apothecary, seated by a window, gazing at a print or drawing. Etching by or after Rembrandt

Rembrandt van Rijn

Etching of a young bull's head facing forward, with curly forehead hair, short horns, and fine hatched shading on neck and mu

Head of a Young Bull, from Die Zweite Thierfolge

Johann Christian Reinhart, 1803