Famous portraits
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14th century [edit]
15th century [edit]
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Ghirlandaio, An Old Man and His Grandson (1488)
16th century [edit]
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Giovanni Bellini. The Doge Leonardo Loredan (after 1501)
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Titian, Man in blue (1512)
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Jean Clouet
Francis I of France (c. 1525)
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Hans Holbein der Jüngere
The Ambassadors (1533)
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Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo (1545)
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Anthonis Mor, Portrait of Mary Tudor (1554)
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El Greco, The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest (c. 1580)
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School of Fontainebleau
Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters (c. 1594)
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Rudolf II painted as Vertumnus, Roman God of the seasons, (c.1590-1)
17th century [edit]
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Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier (1624)
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Rubens, Susanna Fourment (1625)
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Anthony van Dyck, Charles I of England (1635)
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Philippe de Champaigne. Triple Portrait of Cardinal de Richelieu (1637 or 1642)
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The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, known as the Night Watch (1642)
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Diego Velázquez, Pope Innocent X (1650)
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Johannes Vermeer, The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665)
18th century [edit]
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Nicolas de Largillière, The Beautiful Strasbourg Woman (1703)
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Alexander Roslin, The Lady with the Veil (The Artist's Wife) (1768)
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Thomas Gainsborough, Master Jonathan Buttall: Blue Boy (1770)
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Chardin, Self-portrait (1771)
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lady Caroline Scott as Winter (1776)
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Self-portrait of Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun with daughter (1789)
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Joseph Ducreux, Self-portrait (c. 1793)
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Thomas Lawrence, Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie (1794)
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Goya, Maja vestida (1799-1800)
19th century [edit]
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Jacques-Louis David, Porträt Madame Récamier (1800)
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Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial throne (1806)
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James McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother (1871)
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John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (1884)
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Édouard Manet, Le bar des Folies-Bergère (1881-1882)
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Yvette Guibert singing (1894)
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Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890)
20th century [edit]
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John Liston Byam Shaw, Boer War (1901)
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Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer (1907)
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William Orpen, Self-Portrait (1910)
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Amadeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne in yellow (1918)
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Kazimir Malevich, Self-Portrait (1933)
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Alberto Korda, Photoportrait of Che Guevara (1960)