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History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · Mar 10

Frans I Pourbus (1545-1581)
Portrait of a Woman
1581
MSK, Gent

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History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 3h

#FrançoisKinson (1771-1839)
Portrait of #PaulineBonaparte (1780-1825), Duchess of Guastalla, who was #BornOnThisDay
1808
Museo napoleonico di Roma
#Bonaparte #Borghese #Leclerc

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 3h

#MarieGuillemineBenoist (1768-1826)
Portrait of #PaulineBonaparte (1780-1825), Duchess of Guastalla, who was #BornOnThisDay
1808
Château de Fontainebleau
#Bonaparte #Borghese #Leclerc

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 3h

#RobertLefèvre (1755-1830)
Portrait of #PaulineBonaparte (1780-1825), Duchess of Guastalla, who was #BornOnThisDay
1806
Château de Versailles
#Bonaparte #Borghese #Leclerc

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 3h

#RobertLefèvre (1755-1830)
Portrait of #PaulineBonaparte (1780-1825), Duchess of Guastalla, who was #BornOnThisDay
1806
Château de Versailles
#Bonaparte #Borghese #Leclerc

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 3h

#RobertLefèvre (1755-1830)
Portrait of #PaulineBonaparte (1780-1825), Duchess of Guastalla, who was #BornOnThisDay
1803
#Bonaparte #Borghese #Leclerc

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

Alessandro #Allori (1535-1607)
Portrait of #BiancaCappello (1548-87), Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who died #OnThisDay, with her son #AntoniodeMedici (1576-1621)
ca. 1580
Dallas Museum of Art
#Cappello #Medici #Bonaventuri

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

Unknown Artist
Portrait of #BiancaCappello (1548-87), Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who died #OnThisDay
1580
#Cappello #Medici #Bonaventuri

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

Scipione #Pulzone (1550-98),
Portrait of #BiancaCappello (1548-87), Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who died #OnThisDay
1584
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
#Cappello #Medici #Bonaventuri

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

Alessandro #Allori (1535-1607)
Portrait of #BiancaCappello (1548-87), Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who died #OnThisDay
ca. 1580
Galleria degli Uffizi
#Cappello #Medici #Bonaventuri

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Thomas Whitby
Staffordshire County Museum Service
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Lady Mary Booth (1704-72), Later Countess of Stamford
ca. 1710
Dunham Massey, National Trust
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Lady Mary Somerset (1665-1733), Duchess of Ormond
1690s
Petworth House & Park
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Mary Preston (d.1724), Marchioness of Powis
ca. 1700-10
Powis Castle
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of a Lady
before 1743
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Mrs Françoise Leijoncrona
1700
Nationalmuseum
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Henry Robartes (ca.1695-1741), 3rd Earl of Radnor
ca. 1704
Government Art Collection
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661-1715)
ca. 1700
Government Art Collection
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
ca. 1700
Dulwich Picture Gallery
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of an Unknown Man
ca. 1700
Dulwich Picture Gallery
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Portrait of an Unknown Man
ca. 1720
Yale Center for British Art
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#MichaelDahl (1659-1743), who died #OnThisDay
Self-portrait
1691
National Portrait Gallery
#Dahl

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#PeterFranchoys (1606-1654), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of a Young Man
Before 1654
#Franchoys

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#PeterFranchoys (1606-1654), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portraits of ten members of various guilds of the city, kneeling before a Pieta
1645
Stedelijke Musea Mechelen
#Franchoys

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#PeterFranchoys (1606-1654), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of member of the family Estrix de Terbeeck
Before 1654
#Franchoys

History of Portraiture @oldportraiture.bsky.social · 6h

#PeterFranchoys (1606-1654), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Nicolaas Mutsaerts
1645
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
#Franchoys