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Portraits

23,469 works

Engraved portrait of a woman with curled hair in a dark draped cloak, with caption Catharine M. Sedgwick and signature below.

Catherine Maria Sedgwick

Asher Brown Durand, 1832

Engraved bust portrait of a clergyman in a dark gown and white bands, with curly hair, against a hatched background.

Rev. William Buell Sprague

Asher Brown Durand, 1834

Engraved portrait of a man with curled powdered hair, dark coat and lace cravat against a crosshatched background.

The Poet John Trumbull (1750-1831)

Peter Maverick, 1820

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and wire-rimmed spectacles, wearing a dark jacket and white collar, with sign

Robert C. Sands

Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1829

Engraved portrait of a seated man in dark coat and white cravat, hands resting on a chair arm, dark background.

Rev. John Brodhead Romeyn, D. D.

Asher Brown Durand, May 1, 1820

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat, shown against a hatched background.

His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticut

Asher Brown Durand, 1820

Engraved portrait of General Andrew Jackson in military dress beside a horse, with cannon and soldiers in smoke behind him.

General Andrew Jackson

Asher Brown Durand, June 1828

Etching of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat, fur-trimmed cloak and lace collar, hands resting on a table.

Portait of Seated Man in Hat

Charles Echard, 1782

Pencil portrait of a man in a cap and suspenders smoking a long pipe, with handwritten inscription below.

Portrait of Johann Anton Koch

Hieronymus Hess, ca. 1823

Engraved portrait of a standing man in embroidered formal dress with medals, leaning on a draped table beside an inkwell and

Portrait of Michel Louis Etienne, Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély

François Gérard, 1812

Engraved bust-length portrait of John M. Mason in a dark coat and white cravat against a shaded background.

John M. Mason, D.D. S.T.P. (1770-1829)

Asher Brown Durand, 1822

Engraved portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, an elderly man with white hair in a dark coat, with signature below.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Asher Brown Durand, 1835

Engraved bust portrait of Hugh Williamson in dark coat and white cravat, with curtain and column behind him.

Hugh Williamson, M.D., L.L.D. (1735-1819)

Asher Brown Durand, 1821

Engraved print of a young man's head with curly hair and lowered eyes, shaded in a classical sculptural style.

Head of Young Man

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1826

Etching of a woman with a draped head cloth, eyes lowered, touching fabric to her lips.

Head of a Woman

Jacques Gabriel Huquier, mid to late 18th century

Engraved portrait of a young woman with a feathered hat and fan, seated in a stone niche beside a curtain.

Evening

Gilles Edme Petit

Engraved portrait of a woman in a plumed hat and pearls holding a small bird, with a verse caption below.

After-dinner

Gilles Edme Petit

Studies of Standing Men

Mihály Munkácsy, ca. 1891-92

Lithograph of a photographer showing a daguerreotype plate to a woman and a boy in a studio with a camera on a tripod.

Le portrait au daguéréotype

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Daumier lithograph of a seated man in a head clamp posing for a photographer hidden under a camera cloth, with a potted plant

Position réputée la plus commode pour un portrait au daguerréotype

Honoré Daumier, July 24, 1847

Lithograph of a scowling bourgeois man in top hat gesturing at a painter sketching a gnarled tree on a ledge.

Ces artistes sont presque tous fous . . . Ma parole d'honneur! . . . En voilà un qui a l'idée de faire le portrait d'…

Honoré Daumier, August 27, 1847

Engraving of two women and a girl in an interior, one woman touching another's cheek while the girl holds a small box.

The Wedding Present

Louis-Léopold Boilly, ca. 1815

Lithograph of two standing boys in period dress, one holding a hat and one holding a walking stick beside a box.

The Marmot

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1822

Lithograph portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, with decorative Institut Royal de France caption b

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Biot

Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1820

Pen and wash drawing of a sepulchral monument with a reclining figure, a portrait bust atop a pedestal, and scrolled ornament

Design for a sepulchral monument with a portrait bust (recto); Design for a reliquary (?) (verso)

Pieter Verbruggen the Younger, late 17th-early 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a sepulchral monument with a reclining figure, oval portrait bust, urn, and draped base.

Design for a sepulchral monument with a portrait bust

Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen, 1673

Engraved title page with a cartouche, two lions, two putti and coats of arms, dated 1651.

Titelprent voor: Les portraits de tous les Souverains, Princes et Ducs de Brabant

Richard Collin, 1651

Graphite and white chalk portrait drawing of a man in a curled powdered wig, on blue-grey paper.

William Pitt the Elder

William Hoare, ca. 1754

Red and black chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man in a tall hat, looking to the side.

Head of a Bearded Man in a Hat

Adriaen van Ostade, ca. 1650

Engraved portrait of an elderly man with light hair in a dark overcoat and white cravat, with signature below.

John Trumbull

Asher Brown Durand, 1833

Engraving of the Virgin Mary in a veil, gazing upward with clasped hands, rendered in fine parallel lines.

Bust of the Virgin

Claude Mellan, 1650

Engraved oval portrait of a woman in a lace bonnet and dark shawl, with the caption Elisabeth Wolff geb. Bekker below.

Portrait of the Poetess Elisabeth Wolff

Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, 1805