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Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
‘Jeanne de Boulogne, Duchess of Berry’, drawing of a sculpture by Hans Holbein the Younger, from around 1523
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‘The Blue Feather’, painted by William J. Edmondson in oils on canvas in 1917
@ClevelandArt
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Catherine Howard, painted by the workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger sometime between 1540-1545
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‘A Four-Year-Old Girl with a Cat and a Fish’, painted in oils on canvas by Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht around 1647
@SpeedArtMuseum
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‘Self-Portrait with Brush, painted by
Zinaida Serebriakova in 1924
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Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds,
woodcut print by Sadao Watanabe, made around 1983. Printed on hand-made Japanese paper crumpled and flattened to look like cloth
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'Autumn Garden’, painted by Ernest Biéler in the 1890s
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Frunze Mkrtchyan (1930-1993), taken by a photographer unknown to me (but if you find the source of the great photo, please let us know!)
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(Apologies for the slightly scrappy look, I’m away from my laptop!) 😛
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‘Mon Amour’, by René Vincent, painted in gouache and watercolour on paper, glued to stuff board. Magazine cover illustration for La Vie Parisienne, November 20, 1920
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Portrait of a Girl in Blue, painted in 1922 by Philip Swyncop
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Portrait of Beti Karaitiana, a Maori woman from the Hawkes Bay district, New Zealand. Photographed by Samuel Carnell of Napier in the 1880s
via @wikivictorian
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(I found the final oil painting on the @Tate website, but I think the earlier study for it is more fun) 🙂
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Lytton Strachey, by Henry Lamb: a study (in watercolour?) for his 1914 oil painting
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Woman in Kimono, painted in 1936 by Ryōhei Koiso
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‘Grande Robe du Soir’ by George Barbier: hand-coloured etching based on an ink and watercolor painting. Printed in 1913 in French fashion magazine, Journal des Dames et des Modes
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Rachael Griffin, bronze bust sculpted by Manuel Izquierdo around 1985
Timberline Lodge, Oregon
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Charlotte Bronte, drawn in chalk by George Richmond in 1850 @NPGLondon
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‘Faraway’, Andrew Wyeth’s painting of his six-year-old son Jamie, 1952, dry brush on paper
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Portrait of John Count McCormack, painted in oils on canvas by William Orpen in 1923 @NGIreland
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‘The Lady of the Decoration’, detail. Painted on paper and board in pen, ink and watercolour by Harry Clarke in 1914
@NGIreland
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‘Trompe L’Oeil’, painted in oils on canvas by Strickland Lowry sometime after 1775 @NGIreland
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Katherine Knoblauch, painted in 1532 in oils on limewood panel by Conrad Faber von Kreuznach @NGIreland
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‘Portrait of a Girl’, drawn in chalk on paper with a pink wash in 1904 by Ian Strang
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‘Newspaper seller’, drawn in pastels on paper by Austin Spare in 1938
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‘Surprise’, a self portrait drawn by Louis-Leopold Boilly in chalk on paper, sometime between 1800-1810
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