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Portraits

23,745 works

Engraving of a crowned woman carrying a severed head on a platter to a bearded man at a banquet table.

The Head of Saint John the Baptist Brought to Herod

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Portrait of Alfred Rethel, looking up; verso: Studies of two heads

Heinrich Karl Anton Mücke, 19th century

Engraved bust portrait of a man with wavy hair, white cravat and dark coat, on a foxed paper sheet.

C J Abraham 1st Bishop of New Zealand

George Richmond

Etched portrait of a seated woman with upswept hair in a dark dress, resting her arm on a chair.

Portrait of Mlle Quivoron

Marie Bracquemond, 1860-1914

Engraving of a young woman with beauty patches at her dressing table, holding a mirror, with a cockatoo perched nearby.

Morning

Gilles Edme Petit

Black-and-white print of a man in a wide-brimmed hat within an ornate frame with columns, griffins and a double-headed eagle

Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian I in an Architectural Frame (copy)

Hans Weiditz the Younger, n.d.

Portrait of Dürer

Erhard Schön, early 16th century

Engraved portrait of Captain James Cook in a powdered wig and braided dark coat, against a dark background.

Captain James Cook

Watercolour of a dirt road beside a lagoon, with a wagon, wooden buildings, a rowboat and ochre hills under a grey sky.

Head of Totara Lagoon, Northland

William Marshall Cooper, 1867

Portrait miniature (Woman with a bird)

Sepia etching of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, with a small sketched portrait in the lower margin.

Whistler's 'Portrait of himself'

Henri Charles Guérard

Portrait of Miss Amy Gaskell (Mrs. Bonham). From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1893

Pencil and red chalk drawing of a man's head in three-quarter view with tousled hair and a mustache.

Head of a Man

Italian or French 16th/17th Century, 1580/1610 (?)

Handwritten letter on Iris Court letterhead beside a pencil and wash portrait sketch of a man labeled John L. Toole.

A Letter From Iris Court with a Portrait of John L. Toole

Mortimer Menpes

Drawn half-length portrait of a woman in a satin dress and fringed shawl, leaning on a balustrade before a landscape.

Knee-length portrait of a lady

Jakob Becker, 1843

Pencil portrait of a balding man with a mustache, head turned slightly, wearing a collared shirt and tie.

Portrait of a Man (Souvenir d'un Passage à Paris)

Albert Besnard, 1898

Watercolor portrait of a young woman in a white rose-decorated gown with a long train, holding a fan beside a cabinet.

Portrait of Julie Farmer

Nicholas Chevalier, 1874

Engraved portrait of William Harvey, M.D., in an oval frame with books, a scroll, flowers and an anatomical vessel diagram.

William Harvey, MD

Engraving of Perseus holding Medusa's head toward Atlas, a bearded muscular figure, amid trees and rocks, with a sea creature

Perseus changing Atlas into a mountain with the head of Medusa

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and waistcoat, seated at a table with his hand on an open book.

Portrait of John Lee

Thomas Maguire, 1849

Ink sketch of a woman in a wide dark hat, hand at her chin, with red lips, on a tan background.

Portrait of a Woman

Egon Schiele, 1910

Pencil and brown wash sketch of figures in outdoor settings with trees, two compositional studies side by side.

Two Studies for a Portrait of the Warren Family

George Romney, c. 1768

Pencil caricature of a bearded man with tufted hair, huge curling beard and overcoat, one hand on hip.

Senator Dolph of Oregon (Joseph Norman Dolph)

Thomas Nast, ca. 1894

Drawing of a balding cleric in a dark gown and white clerical bands, shaded in charcoal on tan paper.

Half-Length Portrait of a Cleric

Sketches of Six Heads in Profile (caricatures?) (recto); Sketch of Head and Blank Rectangle (verso)

Etching of a woman in a ruffled dress and fur hat holding an umbrella in a doorway, framed by curtains and a column.

Portrait of Miss L...,or A Door Must Be Either Open or Closed

James Tissot, 1876

Head of a Man

Pietro Antonio Novelli, n.d.

Engraved oval portrait of a bewigged man in ceremonial robe and chain collar, with an inscription cartouche below.

Portrait of François I

Johann Christoph von Reinsperger, 1744

Engraving of a painter at an easel in a studio, with a standing gentleman, a boy holding drawings, and framed artworks on the

The Painter

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1642

Engraved oval portrait of a man in armor and a long curled wig, with a coat of arms below on a pedestal.

Portrait of François I

Gilles Jacques Petit, ca. 1745

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with a tiara and lace collar, with a decorative inscription panel below.

Portrait of Marie-Thérèse

Johann Christoph von Reinsperger, 1747

Engraved portrait of a man in a powdered wig and frock coat, with a printed caption naming Théodore Tronchin.

Portrait of Théodore Tronchin

René Gaillard, 1782