POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont, later 1st Earl Charlemont (1753-56) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was the portraitist of choice for the young British and Irish men …
Mary Little
THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH (1727-1788) Mary Little, later Lady Carr (1763) Oil on canvas (127 x 101 cm) Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" This painting may have been commissioned to celebrate the marriage of Mary Little to Robert Carr, who …
Lady Le Despencer
SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY (1753-1839) Elizabeth Eliot, Lady Le Despencer (1795-97) Oil on canvas (63 x 48 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Few artists of his generation probed more subtly the characters of their sitters than William Beechey. Born in Burford, …
An Old Woman
CHRISTIAN SEYBOLD (1690-1768) Portrait of an Old Woman, 1749-50 Oil on copper (37x29 cm) Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Until recently this painting had been attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685-1749), a highly successful and slightly older contemporary of Christian …
Johann Winckelmann
ANTON VON MARON Portrait of Johann Winckelmann (1768) Oil on canvas (136 x 100 cm) Schlossmuseum, Weimar To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it in a new tab This is von Maron's finest portrait, a work of art that truly deserves the title of a masterpiece. Painted a few months before Winckelmann's …
Samuel Ampzing
FRANS HALS (1582-1666) Samuel Ampzing (c.1630) Oil on copper (16,5 x 12 cm) Private Collection, United States To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and open it on a new tab "This exquisite portrait, one of three known works that Frans Hals painted on copper, depicts the Haarlem clergyman, poet, and historian Samuel Ampzing (1590–1632) …
Allegory of Painting
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Old Masters 