JOHANN JULIUS HEINSIUS (1740-1812) Marie-Adélaide de France / Madame Adélaide (1784) Oil on canvas: 135 x 105 cm Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" The author of this beautiful portrait was a German called Johann Julius Heintz or Heinse; however, like many of his contemporaries and …
The handsome Etonian
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830) Arthur Atherley Jr (1791) Oil on canvas (126 x 100 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, USA To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab In 1791, Lawrence began the portrait of a very young and handsome Etonian named Arthur Atherley (1772-1844). …
A Tuscan Diplomat
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Count Niccoló Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Palazzo Barberini, Rome To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" If Batoni needed to prove that, besides being a superb colourist, he was also a master in the difficult art of reproducing the texture of …
Francis Osborne, Duke of Leeds
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830) Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds (1794-96) Oil on canvas (224 x 142 cm) Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab. Francis Godolphin Osborne (1751-1799) was a man of modest intellect and scarce political ability. The reason he is here is …
Commander Graham Moore, RN
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830) Commander Graham Moore (1792) Oil on canvas (76 x 64 cm) London, National Portrait Gallery To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" Sir Graham Moore, GCB, GCMG (1764-1843) was the son of the renowned Scottish physician and author, Dr John Moore (1729-1802) and brother of …
Off the Cuffe
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Captain Otway Cuffe, 3rd Baron Desart (1769) Oil on canvas (134 x 96 cm) Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia, USA To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab Otway Cuffe (1737-1804) was the second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart, by his second …
The Queen of Spades
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Princess Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna (1777) Oil on canvas (63 x 54 cm) Mälmo Museum of Art, Sweden To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" Born into the noble Chernyshyev family, Natalya Petrovna Golitsyna (1741-1837) was the daughter of the diplomat Pyotr Chernyshev, ambassador to the Prussian court …
The Earl Grey
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830) Lieutenant-General Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (1794-5) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Howick Hall, Northumberland, England To enlarge the images, click on them and "Open in a new tab" The sitter to this beautiful portrait was an excellent soldier who, unlike many of his contemporaries, fully deserved the promotions …
Prince Vladimir Golitsyn
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) Prince Vladimir Golitsyn (1762) Oil on canvas (60 x 50 cm) Malmö Art Museum, Sweden To enlarge the image, click on it and open it on a new tab Vladimir Borisovich Golitsyn (1731-1798) was a high-ranking Russian nobleman. His family was very rich and influential. His father was the grandson of Prince …
The Marquis de Choiseul
ALEXANDER ROSLIN (1718-1793) César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny, Marquis de Choiseul (1763-66) Oil on canvas (130 x 100) National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab César Gabriel de Choiseul-Chevigny (1712-1785), Marquess of Choiseul and later duke of Praslin was a soldier and a statesman who …
A Sad Affair
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) The Barrett-Lennard Family (1750) Oil on canvas (39 x 53 cm) Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, UK To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new window" This beautiful family portrait had a sad origin. Thomas Barrett-Lennard, 17th Baron Dacre (1717-1786) was the son of Richard Barrett and Anne Lennard, …
Old Masters 