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Portraits

23,895 works

Oval line engraving portrait of a man with long curly hair and lace collar, with inscribed verse below.

William Sermon. Line engraving, 1671, by W. Sherwin after himself

William Sherwin

Oval pastel portrait of a man in a white wig, red coat with gold braid, and lace cravat against a grey background.

Portrait of a Man

Maurice Quentin de La Tour, 1700s

Line engraving portrait of a man in a curled wig and dark cloak, with a coat of arms and inscription below.

Ernst Friedrich Justus Heimreich. Line engraving by T. G. Beck after I. Leopold

Line engraving portrait of Domenico Cotugno, a man with curled powdered hair in a dark coat and white cravat.

Domenico Cotugno. Line engraving by A. Locatelli

Antonio Locatelli

Antoine, Baron Dubois. Coloured line engraving by J. L. Potrelle after F.P.S. Gérard, 1803

François Gérard

Plato. Line engraving by L. Vorsterman after Sir P. P. Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

Line engraving portrait of a man in a fur cap and collar, in an oval frame with a ribbon bow, with a name plaque below.

Friedrich Hermann Louis Muzel. Line engraving by D. Berger after A. Graff

Line engraving of a bearded man in a ruff and wide-brimmed hat in an oval frame, with a cherub and books below.

Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans. Line engraving after J. Houbraken

Jacob Houbraken

Etched oval vignette in ornate frame showing a cavalry battle with smoke, a winding river and a distant town labeled Rethel.

Three small vignettes at the bottom of a portrait of Mazarin - The Siege of Rethel (A. de Vesme CIX - Third section,…

Stefano Della Bella

Etching of a crowded chamber with a canopy bed at right, where a figure lies while robed courtiers stand around the room.

Three small vignettes at the bottom of a portrait of Mazarin - The Death of Cardinal Mazarin [of Louis XIII] (A. de V…

Stefano Della Bella

Line engraving portrait of Giacomo Tommasini, a man in a dark coat and white cravat, within an oval frame.

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Tommasini. Line engraving by G. Asioli after F. Rosaspina after G. Guizzardi

Giuseppe Guizzardi

John Wesley. Line engraving by E. Porteus, 1841

Portrait of a Man

Line engraving portrait of a man in a curled periwig and lace cravat, in an oval frame with ribbon ornament.

Richard Morton. Line engraving by Morse [?] after B. Orchard, 1692

Jacques Daran. Line engraving by F. Martinet after himself

Black and red chalk drawing of a young woman with head turned left, eyes lowered, hair pinned up, and draped garment on her s

Bust of a Young Woman Turned to the Left

Pietro da Cortona, 1637

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a powdered wig and frilled cravat, with a French inscription panel below.

Antoine, Baron Portal. Line engraving by J. P. Dupin, junior, 1782, after A. Pujos, 1781

Watercolor drawing of a thin nude man with closed eyes and a grimacing mouth, one arm raised, on peach paper.

Nude Self-Portrait, Grimacing

Egon Schiele, 1910

Line engraving portrait of a bearded man beside a skull, book, and instruments, with German inscriptions and a coat of arms.

Friedrich Kuehne. Line engraving by J. Sandrart

Jakob von Sandrart

Head of An Apostle in the Transfiguration

Sketches of a Portrait of Frederick III (?), a Male Figure and a Putto

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1887

Oval line engraving portrait of an older man with white wavy hair and a white cravat, captioned H. Boerhave.

Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. W. Kaiser, 1858, after C. Troost, 1735

Cornelis Troost

Line engraving of Thomas Bewick, a standing older man in a top hat with a cane, on a rural road above a distant town.

Thomas Bewick. Line engraving by F. Bacon after J. Ramsay

Unknown artist

Red and black chalk drawing of a smiling girl with a tilted head wearing a ruffled headscarf, on buff paper.

Head of Smiling Girl

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1765

Drawing of a young man in a wide-brimmed hat, turned three-quarters, rendered in brown chalk with white highlights.

Head of a Youth

Lorenzo di Credi, 1450

Line engraving of Sir Hugh Myddelton in an oval frame, with surveying instruments, a plan scroll, a wheel and a rooster below

Sir Hugh Myddelton, in an oval surround underneath which are surveying and mining tools, with a plan of the course of…

Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen

Drawing of a young man in a dark coat and white cravat leaning on a stone window ledge against a cloudy sky.

Self-portrait

Charles Bruguière de Barante, 1804

Red and black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man's head on blue-grey paper, with white highlights.

Head of an Old Bearded Man

Federico Barocci, 1584

Line engraving portrait of a bearded man in a dark gown and ruff, standing at a table with a book and flowers.

Philipp Scherb, standing at a table with a book and flowers on it. Line engraving by W. P. Kilian, 1728

Wolfgang Philipp Kilian

Engraved portrait of a man in academic robes and a powdered wig, hand resting on a carved pedestal, with Latin inscription be

Johann Jakob Baier. Line engraving by G. M. Preisler after himself

Georg Martin Preisler

Pastel and charcoal portrait of a man with swept-back dark hair and a striped dark sweater, white chalk rays behind him.

Portrait of Karol Szymanowski

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1931

Line engraving portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar, with a Latin inscription, skull, bird and book emblems around the

Nicolaus Varget. Line engraving by R. Custos, 1642