OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Portraits
"The most natural, manly, useful, noble, and, however apparently easy, the most difficult of arts is portrait painting"
(trans. Thomas Holcroft).
"Each perfect portrait is an important painting, since it displays the human mind with the peculiarities of personal character. In such we contemplate a being whose standing, inclinations, sensations, passions, good and bad qualities of mind and heart, are mingled in a manner peculiar to itself. In portraits paintings we see them better, frequently, than in nature herself, since in nature nothing is fixed, all is swift, all transient. In nature, also, we seldom behold the features under that propitious aspect ."
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Copley, John Singleton
Richard Heber, 1782
Oil on canvas, 65 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (165.74 x 130.02 cm)
Yale Centre for British Art, Hartford
Reynolds, Joshua
Lady Cockburn and her three eldest Sons, 1773
Oil on canvas, 55 5/8 x 44 3/8 inches (141.5 x 113 cm)
National Gallery, London
Reynolds, Joshua
Lady Sunderlin, 1786
Oil on canvas, 92 7/8 x 57 inches (236 x 145 cm)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Reynolds, Joshua
Portrait Of Mrs. Stanhope
Oil on canvas, 54 7/8 x 44 inches (139.7 x 111.8 cm)
Private collection
Reynolds, Joshua
Portrait Of The Hon. Mrs. William Beresford
Oil on canvas, 53 x 44 7/8 inches (134.7 x 114.2 cm)
Private collection
Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costum? of 12 May 1842, 1842
Oil on canvas, 56 1/4 x 44 inches (143 x 112 cm)
Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, London
Schiele, Egon
Self Portrait with Black Vase, 1911
oil on wood
Historiches Museum der Stadt, Wien/Vienna
Reynolds, Joshua
Lady Delm and her Children, 1777-1780
Oil on canvas, 94 x 57 3/4 inches (239 x 147 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington
