Your Favorite Portrait Of All Time

Durer looked a little different at this angle but he's still recognizable.

I remember this Hans Holbein portrait of Anne of Cleves from history class. Henry VIII didn't find his future wife very attractive when he met her. He was expecting the woman in this portrait. He divorced her.

Another great Hans Holbein portrait. The subject Simon George must have cut a dashing figure in his time.

Armie Hammer Dancing

Have you ever seen such beauty?

I love some Agnolo Bronzino paintings. This one is the "Woman In Green". imagine wearing this getup?

Not my favorite Reynolds but portrait of DL's patron, "Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse".

Another Bronzino from the 1500's.

Lucrezia di Medici by Bronzino.

I have been in lust with this man for most of my life.

Juan de Pareja by Velázquez

And the Gainsborough Siddons

One of my favorite modern artists is Amedeo Modigliani (see slideshow in the attachment below). He said: "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes".

This one, by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy of Ivan Shishkin. It's so photorealistic and Shishkin so lifelike that I couldn't believe it was painted in 1880 the first time I saw it.

My favorite Bronzino, Eleanor of Toledo. The rich blue background, the baroque gown, luscious!

I love many of the Pre-Raphaelite portraits.

This one is called "The Soul of The Rose" by John Waterhouse.

It's hard to choose just one Adolphe William Bouguereau painting.

Another Bouguereau portrait.

Years ago, I visited an art gallery in Manchester, England while on vacation. I saw this portrait of "Ann" by L.S. Lowry in an art gallery. Her severe face and black hair stayed with me.

An L.S. Lowry haunting portrait of a father and sons.

sargent's "black atlas" mfa boston

This Bronzino, and its in NYC, at the Frick.

This one.

This Lowry subject just has to be related to Ann in R17. He has the same eyes and black hair.

sargent's "man wearing laurels" LACMA

I like the Durer self portrait also. The old Book of Lists has Peggy Gugenheim's 10 greatest classical artists - 7 Italians and Rembrandt, Velasquez and Durer? Was Durer that good?

"Jane XXX" by Gerald Kelly

r1 I saw that in Lisbon a few years ago and it was absolutely mesmerizing. His St Jerome was there too and was also amazing.

Up there for me is one I just saw in Philly, an Ingres of some French lady. She was looking down, judging, larger than life.

Right next to her, perfectly matching in scale, was Goya's bullfighter(a famous one who ladies threw money at, Jose Romero).

Jose Romero

Ingres' Comtesse Touron

john koch, "the sculptor" brooklyn museum

UGH SORRY TRYING AGIN

r12 Kramskoi was a genius.

More Kramskoi

Of course Madame X is at the top of my list.

The correct answer to this question is Las Meninas

Anyone who did not answer Las Meninas is wrong.

A Bar at the Folies Bergere would also be an acceptable answer.

Fuck me sideways. Anyhow.. I love Ingres.

Another great Ingres

Holbein's Ambassadors

I had an Edward Hopper calendar hung in my office and this sailing painting was on it. It's not exactly a portrait but it left quite an impression on me and my work colleagues. I lost count of how any times people dropped by and asked me about this painting.

Self portrait by Jan van Eyck, circa 1433.

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint" - Edward Hopper.

Mine's the best, peasants

Jan van Eyck again, 1434

Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Block Bauer, 1907.

"The Straw Hat" by Tamara de Lempicka.

Holbein Thomas More

Sandro Botticelli portrait.

"intus" by Dino Valis

Can't go wrong with Caravaggio, "David with the Head of Goliath"

Rodin by John Singer Sargent

That photo at R32 was the cover of the Anna Karenin (not Karenina, per the translation for some reason) that I read.

"Lady Agnew" by John Singer Sargent, 1892.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898 and made Sargent's name

Another John Waterhouse to go with R14.

Slight correction

That title should be "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw".

This is my most favorite Ingres portrait, of Louis-François Bertin. You could really sense his personality, that he was a bad ass he didn't take any shit from anybody.

r56 I was going to post the Bertin portrait, it's fabulous! You can tell, w Ingres, which subjects wanted flattery and which wanted realism, it's almost comical in its obviousness.

Bernini wasn't really a painter, but I love this self portrait, it's how I imagine him really looking, completely manic and brilliant.

Oops, forgot pic

Nefertitty

This guy by Van Dyck seems like a badass too

I like self-portraits

A lost Rubens portrait of the gay lover of King James I.

This is amazing in person, another I saw in Lisbon

No question.......

No one looked like the striking Frida Kahlo and her unibrow. Bonus points for her monkey and feline friends.

I love this Titian portrait.

Lotte Laserstein . self portrait while painting her girlfriend

Anything by John Singer Sargent and also this painting by Alfred Roll.

I love Ingres! Many many years ago when I was traveling around France, I went to his birthplace, Montauban just to go to his museum. Recommend.

R63, never seen that before. The Duke was the King's fairly open gay lover. As least at that time. There is a collection of love letters in the National Archives and evidence in their home that they had connecting doors on their private apartments.

Another Titian portrait. This one is called "Man With Gloves.

R24 - I think Durer was quite good.

this klimt

Frans Hals "Laughing Cavalier". This guy looks like someone who would be fun to have a drink with on a Friday night. He would sure be the center of attention if he showed up wearing this extravagant outfit. LOL.

Not sure who painted this but I like it.

Another Frans Hals portrait.

Andrew Wyeth was very good too.

I love the look on this guy's face. Portrait by Raphael.

More Andrew Wyeth

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jamie Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth's son, is also great. His Warhol portraits are absolutely brilliant(whether or not you like Warhol). One recently was found in someone's attic and made it to Antiques Roadshow.

He painted this portrait when he was 17.

R78 & R80 - one of my favorite Wyeth portraits is this one. Less is more.

Nell Gwynn by Verelst, National Portrait Gallery London. One of the early nip slips.

Nell Gwynn, slipping a nip again. Born February 2, 1650 and died November 14, 1687, she was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England and Scotland.

It's hard to choose w Velazquez, his subjects being an embarrassment of riches. This nun is my favorite I think.

This guy is having none of anyone's sht either

Closeup

Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted many royals, aristocrats and society of his time. Here is one of my favorites of his - the black haired, pale skinned and blue eyed “Carmen Aguado, duchesse de Montmorency”

Velazquez made the pope look evil af. Or maybe that's what the elite of the time were going for, a fearsome appearance.

Winterhalter's famous portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (aka "Sissi").

Another Winterhalter beauty.

An exquisite profile by Winterhalter.

Those Winterhalter women are always getting confused online, he put the same face on all of them lol. I love this Sissi portrait, w the crescent moon in the background.

1928 portrait of the American painter, Paul Cadmus, as a young man by Luigi Lucioni.

I have a fondness for Dutch School portraits from the 17th century. The detail is amazing.

Ludwig I commissioned 36 portraits of beautiful women for his Gallery of Beauties in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich. The pictures are gorgeous.

Why is Mona Lisa the most famous in history? Is it because it's LDVs?

OP, I don't really like this painting but I first saw it at about age 5 in the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco. I would gaze upon it with morbid fascination. I still visit the museum regularly and it remains on display. I don't like it any better now than I did then. It's a portrait of a Lady of the Saxon Court as Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Cranach the Elder painted many disturbing things. He lived from 1472 to 1553 and was a prolific German Renaissance court painter, who along with many traditional subjects, ventured into kinky realms.

Prince Alexander Konstantinovich Gorchakov, by Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, 1904.

r35 is correct.

Sargent's painting of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Thanks for posting that portrait, r95. For whatever reason, I also pictured Cadmus as having brown eyes.

Antonello da Messina portrait of a condottiere (portrait of a mercenary)

I like this portrait by John Everett Millais; he has a few other paintings of flamed-haired women that I like as well. The Kramskoy painting of the unknown woman at R32 is another of my favorites.

I wasn’t familiar with Kramskoy, but, wow...thanks DL.

Alexandre Cabanel Autoportrait l'art pompier

Francis Cadell, The Rugby Player

I'm loving all of these! How civilized for DL. Thank you all for your beautiful posts.

Now, where's the Sargent portrait of the hot Italian gynecologist in his red dressing gown? I can't believe no one's posted him yet.

Yes, I think Durer was talented. Being a ver weird person, my favorite painter is of course Bosch. The closest he came to a portrait to my knowledge is Jesus in The Crown of Thorns.

For r110

Gertrude Stein by Picasso.

Picasso self portrait 'Facing Death'. Poingnant.

Poignant ^

R100, I think she’s robbing the man while he’s distracted.

"Madame M" - Tamara De Lempicka

That looks more like illustration or poster art than fine art

Art Deco.

Garbielle d'Estrees: Louvre

Loving this thread. Thanks OP

Gericault: "Portrait Study"

richard gerstl, "Self Portrait in Front of Blue Background" Leopold Museum, Vienna

R120 I believe that is Diane de Poitiers, long time mistress of Henry II of France.

Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine

"Man With a Leather Belt" (self-portrait) - Gustave Courbet

this is common as fuck, but the stalmeesters by rembrandt is magic in that he makes a bunch of rich fucks look like saints who were just canonized.

‘Portrait Of Mrs. Kunffy Wth Flowered Hat’ by Jozsef Rippl Ronai

I also like "Gold and Brown" (self portrait) - James McNeill Whistler

'Girl with a Pearl Earring' - Joannes Vermeer.

Dawn, Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

R131 That one's only good, though, when paired with "Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn." .. In that respect, they're like "Pinkie" and "Blue Boy."

HELLO! What color are my eyes?

Faiyum portraits. All of them had these insanely lifelike, penetrating eyes. I was so mesmerized by this particular one that I saw it at the Met, I forgot it was protected by glass and bumped by nose trying to get a closer look. I just don't understand how they were able to capture the eyes so vividly!

Another Faiyum portrait.

R76, it's by the artist, H. Craig Hanna.

Joan Crawford, by Margaret Keane

anything involving the Pre-Raphaelites

and another

Dundan Grant: "Male Nude"

I agree OP.

duncan grant

"The Boxer" - Konstantin Somov, 1930s.

Early Lautrec, Gustave Lucien Dennery

Philip, Lord Wharton about ye age of 19.

(I can't believe that after nearly 150 responses, Van Dyck doesn't own this thread yet -- he would be my first choice by a wide margin, if I could have my portrait done.)

Any David Hockney favorites? His Met show was a huge hit.

John Singer Sargeant

A distinctive way of painting portraits: art of miniature Jean Baptiste Isabey la reine Hortense

speaking of John Singer Sargent

R146 - I remember this Hockney the most.

Mona Lisa does nothing for me but this Leonardo da Vinci beauty is quite spectacular.

Leonardo truly was a Renaissance genius - artist, scientist, inventor - the man could do it all.

"Lady in A Fur Wrap" by El Greco.

The dark, moody, haunting faces of El Greco subjects have stayed with me since childhood.

R35, did you ever wonder what happened to that sweet little princess in Las Meninas? This is her at age 15. She died at a young age from poor health after being basically turned into a broodmare. Tragically, for all of her many pregnancies (she had six before the age of 21), only one child survived.

Rembrandt - can you imagine sitting through an anatomy lesson dressed in these outfits?

One of my favorite Edouard Manet portraits.

Self portrait by Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun.

Vigee Le Brun.

A chalk drawing by Michelangelo.

A portrait by Lavinia Fontana.

William Bruce Ellis Ranken was gay and did lots of paintings of hot men

Here's another by Ranken

The faces on these three subjects are priceless. Portrait by Sofonisba Anguissola

From gay artist Henry Scott Tuke

American Impressionist Mary Cassatt often depicted motherhood, women and children in her paintings. This one is called "Sisters".

Bouguereau's "The Penitent".

This Bouguereau painting called "Aphrodite" is so life life it looks like a photo.

I love that portrait, R101, but I can't help but think how comfortable it must have been for the Prince to hold that pose for so long.

My favorite is the Portrait of Louise-Antoinette Feuardent, the wife of one of Millet's friends, who was a librarian. She's an average lower middle class Frenchwoman from the middle of the 19th century, but there's something about her expression that makes her reach out through the centuries as if she's very much present. It's at the Getty.

I love this thread.

I win!

Pablo Picasso has never been a favorite of mine but I do appreciate some of his "blue" portraits.

Most of the major painters of the past would extend their reputations (and coffers) with portraits, with special focus on capturing something intrinsic about the subject. Bronzino, with his mannerist detachment, could be a cruel and gaming painter, and he played a lot of gay games, especially with his "new trade in court" works. His Lorenzo Lenzi portrait captures a kid introduced to the setting (some portraits would have the boys holding gay love poems, and Bronzino himself was "adopted" by Pontormo and played around with such coded things as a nude of Cosimo de Medici as Orpheus. Here one can see Lenzi, who went on to an illustrious career, looking like a mouse caught by the cat, as he probably felt as he was "mentored" by some of the men around him.

Picasso did many wonderful portraits but neither the blue nor rose periods were times when anything more than a stock characterization was used.

Thomas Gainsborough painted the three eldest daughters of King George III.

The detail in Gainsborough's paintings was exquisite.

Gainsborough painted the society lady, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, ancestress of Lady Diana Spencer.

Another Gainsborough beauty.

R174: "you're going to put THAT ... WHERE?"

Richard Tickell by Gainsborough. A hunk in a powdered wig was all the rage.

I've also always loved Velazquez's Las Meninas" from 1656 -- most people seem to love this portrait for the court dwarves, but love the exquisite little Infanta in the middle.

She was so beautiful. It's a shame she was such a little cunt. She married Leopold I and then moved her court to Vienna as empress. She and her Spanish ladies in attendance detested German and would only speak Spanish, which made her very unpopular at court of course, and turned their nose up at all things Viennese. She also insisted that Leopold destroy the synagogues of Vienna, which he did.

Everyone in the Emperor's court heaved a sigh of relief when she croaked after one of her pregnancies. Her death left no one to succeed to the throne of Spain, which eventually led to the War of the Spanish Succession -- the war that ruined Louis XIV.

Another Vermeer. Amazing detail and amazing light.

The really haunting "Christina's World" by Wyeth.

The weird thing about that Wyeth is, she couldn't walk and she had to drag herself around on the ground like that. Seriously, that's what the painting depicts. :-O

R169, it's a myth that painters always made their portraits by making the sitter pose for the duration of the painting. What they'd do is make rough preliminary sketches of the sitter before the actual painting, then later paint the portrait based on memory, sometimes lifting elements and ideas from their earlier work and other famous paintings. For example, here is the preparatory sketch that Ingres made of Louis Bertin before his portrait.

Henri III by Clouet. Amazingly sympathetic and sensitive portrait of a horrendous person.

Thanks, r186, I did not know that.

R187, why do you say he was a horrendous person? Because of the St Bartholomew's Massacre? Yes that was of course truly terrible, but he mollified his views once becoming king, and would have preferred religious tolerance, but for the Catholic League always pushing him to the Right.

He actually was a very capable military man, and not a terrible king for such evil times. He actually had more trouble from Catholic fanatics in his own reign that from the Huguenots, which is why he had Guise murdered -- and of course one of them eventually assassinated him.

Henry Raeburn's portrait of a skating Rev. Robert Walker. What form!

Another Raeburn.

Rembrandt's "Portrait Of A Man" is amazing. His expression with all the lines on his face are sublime.

A life like portrait by Liotard. He seems amused.

A charming portrait by Nattier.

A self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann.

Portrait of a Russian prince by Swedish artist Alexander Roslin.

This one.

A big haired Lady by Joshua Reynolds.

Philip Metcalfe by Pompeo Batoni.

Another Joshua Reynolds. Light and shade.

probably posted above, but worth a repeat: John Singer Sargent's 'Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home'

I've seen that painting many times before, r201, but only now have I noticed something. Look how long his fingers are, especially his pinky finger.

R101 - i want to have hime

A jaunty Lady Worsley by Joshua Reynolds.

Another masterpiece by Reynolds.

Portrait of a Youth, Sandro Botticelli

Self-portrait, Eugène Delacroix.

Self-portrait, Carl Joseph Begas.

Self-portrait, Lon Joseph Florentin Bonna.

Didn't Vigee LeBrun cause a scandal by showing her teeth in those self portraits? What a darling little gap.

Frédéric Bazille's Young Woman with Peonies

The above portrait reminded me of this very delightful one below. It shows Lady Elizabeth Murray with her biracial cousin, Dido Elizabeth Belle.

The inspiration for the movie "Belle"

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) by Jean-Baptiste van Mour. She should probably be a DL icon.

Joseph Banks (1743-1820) by Sir Joshua.

BDF?

Una, Lady Troubridge by fellow Lesbian Romaine Brooks

That Bazille jogged my memory - Henri Fantin Latour did a magnificent group portrait of painters; Manet, Renoir, Zola, Monet - with Bazille at the far right in all of his tallness.

Bazille's self-portrait isn't too shabby either.

van Gogh self portrait

Bazille photo. HOT>

Otto Dix - Prisoner of War. He fought in WWI and had severe PTSD. After the war he went to art school. He was labeled a degenerate artist by the Nazis.

Del Piombo, "Portrait of a Man in Armor" (c. 1512) at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford.

One of Otto Dix's most famous portraits - during the Weimar Republic. Journalist Sylvia von Harden. Remember the opening scene of Cabaret?

Elizabeth II Regina by Pietro Anigonni

Eduard Charlemont's "Moorish Chief" in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The painting is powerful, striking and has such detail it almost appears to be a photograph. If someone could post this masterpiece, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

Here you go, Bronze Age Gay.

R127 Rich? From selling cigars?

r226 I just saw that! It is amazing in person. In that same gallery I was also able to get a snapshot of Rodin's Camille Claudel in front of Titian's creepy portrait of a some cardinal or other.

The Titian cardinal portrait.

[quote]Any David Hockney favorites? His Met show was a huge hit.

Yes. This was always my favorite. It's a portrait of Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell.

This one!

Bob Ross self portrait on black velvet, with Elvis

Lady Marguerite Strickland by Gerald Brockhurst, circa 1940

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879. It hangs in the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco.

Self portrait by Léon Bonnat, age 22, circa. 1855. Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

Lord Nelson's mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton, as the goddess Circe

Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset by William Larkin

Russian novelist Leonid Andreyev by Ilya Repin

I love how the artist of r238's portrait has painted the rich graphic patterns in the subject's outrageous clothes so as to almost render the subject as an abstract being.

and now for something completely different

Boris Pasternak by his father, Leonid Pasternak.

The portrait of this man hanging in the apartment of the main characters of the TV show "Will and Grace". The only thing I found out was that it's a copy and they producers thought it looked a bit like Will. A Google reply is below:

According to production designer Glenda Rovello, it's a reproduction of a "friend of a friend's painting."

"...that painting of a man hanging on the wall by the fireplace. Sometimes referred to as the young Desi Arnaz portrait, 'It's a friend of a friend's painting,' says Rovello, adding that no one knows if it's really supposed to be the 'I Love Lucy' star. 'We had it reproduced. It almost could look like it was Will'."

Franz Xaver Winterhalter painted famous ladies of his time. This is a Russian grand duchess.

Portrait of Princess Metternich by Winterhalter.

Portrait v. painting -- learn the difference.

R246 - Portrait = painting ( notably of of people's faces)

Who is the ignorant one now?

Another gorgeous Winterhalter.

Winterhalter captured the beauty of Empress Eugenie.

Winterhalter painted children as well.

U iz, r247 !

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria, was also painted by Winterhalter.

Sarah Bernhardt has BDF.

Yet yet another Winterhalter, of the beautiful and unhappy Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

Same chick, different painter (Raab)

R246 & R251 - the defintion of a portrait is "a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph."

Nice try but try harder next time!

Oh and do try to speak proper English or some other legitimate language wnen you post.

Another Winterhalter had artistic talent - this painting is by Hermann, the brother of Franz Xaver.

The painter Paul Cadmus by Luigi Lucioni

Another painting by Hermann Winterhalter, brother of Franz Xaver.

The unusual painting style of Amedeo Modigliani.

Klimt's Judith

I liked this thread so much, I'm going to read through it again. Thank you, OP!

Look, you flying butthole at r246:

All portraits are paintings, but not all paintings are portraits.

This is what you need to learn and forget everything else that you think you know.

Kathe Kollwitz made many moody, somber self portraits throughout her life. Below is one of them.

No Don Bachardy fans here??

[quote]All portraits are paintings,

Not to step into the middle of this, but a portrait does not have to be a painting. It can be a photograph or drawing as well.

In your mind, of course! Whatever you say, flathead!

lol what?

Anthony van Dyck's portrait of the royal children of Charles I.

Van Dyck's "Two Young Englishmen".

Van Dyck painted this dark and moody man.

Van Dyck's "Charles I at the Hunt". Isn't he dandy?

King Charles X 3 by Van Dyck.

Sometimes, Van Dyck painted bags under the eyes and all facial flaws.

Capturing a mood of reflection - Van Dyck.

Philip de Laszlo's portraits of the late Queen Mother.

Philip de Laszlo painted this handsome young lad.

This soldier died in battle after being painted by De Laszlo.

Hello gorgeous. Laszlo could pick them.

Laszlo painted children as well.

A slide show of some of Laszlo's women in hats.

Elinor Glyn by De Laszlo.

r282 - She had It!

R264 Kathe Kollwitz was labeled a degenerate artist by the Nazis and her work was not allowed to be displayed during the Nazi regime. In fact, she and her husband were threatened with deportation to a concentration camp (she was 70 at the time).

First Lady Grace Coolidge (and her dog Rob Roy), by Howard Chandler Christy

Archduchess Sophie of Austria (born Princess of Bavaria) by Joseph Karl Stieler. The painting is in Ludwig I's "Gallery of Beauties" in Schloss Nymphenburg.

Another Stieler beauty.

Beethoven by Stieler.

Self portrait of Stieler.

Another gorgeous woman painted by Stieler.

Amalie von Schintling by Stieler.

This Stieler lady sure loves those braids.

Stieler's portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, the father of modern geography.

Stieler painted German royalty as well.

Stieler's painting of "Jane Rigby" also hangs in Munich's Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.

Lola Montez by Stieler.

Someone has to post the portrait by Francis Bacon of Pope Innocent. It is genius and direct from Velasquez

That beautiful portrait by Sargeant of Dr. Pozzi was life size and at least 6 feet tall. It was owned for many years by that old pirate Armond Hammer ( DL favorite Armie's grandfather) and hung quite dramatically at the head of the stairway into his private office at Occidental Petroleum in Los Angeles

Detail of St Peter by Jusepe De Rivera.

Clara Serena, the daughter of Rubens painted by her father of course!

"Lucifer" by Franz Stuck is my current favorite. I'm looking for a print to hang in my home.

A handsome man painted by Pietro Facchetti.

"A Man With His Friend" by Bartolomeo Passarotti.

I like the sulky expression on this lad's face. Painting by Andrea Mantegna. I think Jackie Kennedy stole his pillbox hat. LOL.

Jacques Louis David.

Jacob Ferdinand Voet painted this noblewoman with great realism.

A scary painting by Emma Hopkins. I'm scared.

Sassoferrato's "The Virgin In Prayer".

caravaggio's "bacchus"

The martyrdom of St. Sebastian by arrows has been painted by numerous artists. This is one of my favorite depictions by Guido Reni

Andrea Mantegna's take on St Sebastian.

Renoir's portrait of the actress Jeanne Samary

Thomas Eakins self portrait.

Carrington - Lynton Strachey Beautiful hands

[quote]And Emma Watson at her best

Wrong Emma.

Alfphonse Mucha’s portrait of his daughter, Jaroslava.

Apologize to Emma Thompson. Portrait of the Cardinal de Richelieu who Once said to a very pretty woman sitting next to him at a party :" if my priesthood was in bronze, you'd hear the tocsin tolls ". The greatest prime minister ever in the history of France

Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria by Peter Paul Reubens, 1606.

The Lady with the Veil by Alexander Roslin. It's a portrait of his wife, the French artist Marie-Suzanne Giroust.

I also love the Fayum portaits from Egypt.

That Stieler portrait of Beethoven at r288 is such a Mary! moment, sorry.

I've seen The Moorish Chief at the PMA, it was hanging in the stairwell back then.

Empress Maria of Russia by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Robert Delaunay.

English artist Laura Knight has some lovely portraits in this slide show.

Vilhelm Hammershoi of Denmark was a "master of melancholy".

Joaquin Sorolla's beach paintings.

I love travelling by train so I love this Augustus Egg painting caller "The Travelling Companions"

"The Desperate Man" by Gustave Courbet.

It's not a favorite of mine but I remember this Van Eyck painting from my childhood.

Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck's portrait of an actor.

An Egon Schiele self-portrait.

Another Schiele self-portrait.

Edvard Munch's "The Scream" .

I love these art queens who post fifty different paintings in response to the question "what is your FAVORITE portrait of all time?"

The question is not, "who is your favorite portraitist of all time?"

forgive me for not scrolling past each response on a smartphone to see if this has already been posted:

The Genoese admiral Andrea Doria (1466-1560) as the god Neptune painted by Agnolo Bronzino.

Robert Delaunay's portrait of Jean Metzinger.

Leonardo da Vinci. She beats the Mona Lisa.

"Head" by Magnus Enckell from Finland.

Johann Zoffany's portrait of Archduchess Maria Christina.

I love Renaissance era portraits...this was a feast for the eyes..thank you for the thread

Frans Hals's portraits were strikingly contemporary for the 17th century.

R18 Jesus. That looks like it should be hanging up in Zachary Quinto's apartment

It's surprising how many reasonably handsome Tudor men Holbein painted, like at R3

A new favorite - Albert Edelfelt, Finland. Model Parisienne 1882. It looks quite modern.

Winnie hated this piece of shit so much, I burned it

This one became a popular image a the height of the AIDS epidemic and captured the feelings of many gay men of that time. It's entitled "Jeune Homme Assis au Bord de la Mer (Young Man Sitting by the Sea) by French artist Hyppolite Flandrin. It may be classified as a painting instead of a portrait, but it is not known whether the subject posed for the artist, or the artist created it

I love Amedeo Modigliani's paintings but it's hard to pick a favorite.

"School Girl" by Sir George Clausen.

I like Gustav Klimt and this "Portrait of A Lady" is one of his lesser known paintings.

my all time favorite

It's hard to pick just one of Agnolo Bronzino's portraits.

I like this Bronzino for the sheer ugliness of the subject. She looks like a witch with that nose and protruding eyes.

Rogier van de Weyden.

Society Portrait of Handsome Young Man by Belgian painter Ernest Castelein.

I have too many to mention but Australian artist John Peter Russell's portrait of Vincent van Gogh is one favorite of mine.

Sargent's Dr. Pozzi was a gynecologist. Imagine being one of his patients and having those long fingers inside of you as you looked into those eyes. If I recall correctly, he was murdered by a jealous husband.

You may not consider this a true portrait but I love it! A top favorite!

That’s a fantastic portrait of Van Gogh, r355.

Maybe you art buffs can help me? I can't remember the name or artist of my favorite portrait, but it's basically a historical scene in a rustic Italian cafe. There are three people (a man and two women) at a table where they have been enjoying a meal which lays unfinished in front of them. They look somewhat disturbed and are staring directly at the viewer and whispering to each other as if they are wondering "Who is this weirdo that is staring at us while we try to eat?" The man in this trio is actually the artist himself, and one of the women was the actual subject of the portrait. There are also some flies buzzing around the table that are so detailed you can zoom way into them and they look almost photo realistic. That's all I remember. Is this ringing any bells?

[quote]That’s a fantastic portrait of Van Gogh, [R355]

yes, I could not agree more

R356, Dr. Samuel Pozzi was murdered by a patient, whom he operated on for varicocele of the scrotum. The patient believed the operation rendered him impotent.

Dr. Pozzi was a serial philanderer, whom Mme Aubernon de Nerville nicknamed "l'amour médecin." Another lover, Sarah Bernhardt called him "Docteur Dieu."

He was elected senator, representing Bergerac, in 1898, but did not seek re-election for a second term.

Merle Oberon by portrait painted Gerald Brockhurst. He also did a painting of Marlene Dietrich in the same costume. Can't find it anywhere.

R362 - the only Gerald Brockhurst portrait of Marlene Dietrich that I could find on my Internet travels was this one but I don't think it's the same outfit as Merle Oberon's.

Irish artist William Orpen's portrait of Gertrude Sanford.

Romaine Brooks' portrait of Peter ( A Young English Girl).

A very different portrait of Sisi of Austria, gamely if ruefully posing as an unlikely Byzantine empress with a St. Bernard.

It's difficult to decide which portrait to choose but I love Amedeo Modigliani's Portrait of a Little Girl (1917).

A new find: "The Boxer" painted by Russian Konstantin Somov in 1933.

I like this portrait of "Candy" by American artist Marc Dalessio.

So handsome

The Arnolfini portrait by Van Eyck.

I like Lucien Freud portraits...

Lucian^^^

This is so good that it looks like a photograph.

"The Challenge" by Canadian Marina Dieul.

My favorite modern painter is Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. This is called Portrait of Lunia Czechowska.

Make America Great Again...

Portrait of a Man, self portrait painted in 1433 by Jan Van Eyck. Over 500 years ago. Amazing.

Whaddya have?

Well, hello! Glad you asked.

Dr. Pozzi was very fuckable, I'm sure.

Amedeo Modigliani usually didn't draw eyes on his subjects but this "Blue Eyed Boy" was an exception.

This one by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, from 1800. It was purchased by the Louvre in 1818.

I love the well known Korean artist Victor Lee's portraits, he's done so many over the years, of presidents and celebrities. I wonder how being that prolific will affect the value of his work?

Gustave Courbet's "The Desperate Man".

[quote]r44 Jan van Eyck again, 1434

You should like THIS:

This portrait of Glennie has alway been special to me.

Bertha Wegmann's painting of Jeanna Bauck. I love the expression on her face and the sunlight in her hair.

Another beautiful portrait called "The Lady With The Veil" by Alexander Roslin. Wonderful eye seduction.

Queen Margethe II of Denmark - hangs in the vestibule at Rosenberg palace in Copenhagen. Saw this a couple of years ago and the shimmering silver is stunning in person.

"Athletes" by Eugene Jansson of Sweden.

"Young Decadent" by Ramon Casas of Spain.

Doge Leonardo Loredan by Bellini

Woman with a Veil by Raphael

Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander by Whistler

Salvator Rosa self-portrait

Marquise de Pompadour by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

R36 YES! I came in here to cite this painting specifically. When I was 21 (1988), as a present to myself, I bought a ticket to London. This was back in the days of the Soviet Union, so British Airways had planes that flew from Tokyo to Anchorage to London; it was the way you transitioned from Asia to Europe back then. Anyway, as a kid, I walked all over London and saw plays, went to museums, etc. And I vividly remember walking into the Courtauld Gallery one afternoon, turning the corner, and seeing this. I was mesmerized. I have no idea what it is about that painting, but it's like it reached out and touched my soul.

Balthus. Le roi des chats. Autoportrait 1935

This portrait is titled "Peter A Young English Girl" and it's by Romaine Brooks.

R400 choice looks like Jared Kushner.

the one of Jackie oh in the white house.

romantic, dreamy, our Queen Forever

anything by the Keanes….

Any painting NOT DONE BY DAVID HOCKNEY.

[quote]the one of Jackie oh in the white house. romantic, dreamy, our Queen Forever

This one?

I like the portrait of Edith Roosevelt.

and DL fave Nancy Reagan.

John William Waterhouse's portrait called "The Soul Of The Rose".

George Clausen - School Girl.

Henry Scott Tuke - Beach Study.

^ Anything by Tuke would qualify!

Paul Gauguin's Portrait Of A Young Woman.

Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael

This obscure painting --- The Princess de Broglie by Ingres

Katherine of Aragon by Michel Sittow

Robert Brackman/Eban's Portrait of Jennie (Jennifer Jones).

St. Margaret by Francisco de Zurbarán

Painting done by John Becker for Scarlett Street. A portrait of Joan Bennett's character, painted by Chris Cross, she claims as a self-portrait.

r418's pic reminds me of actor Anthony Quinn.

The Nancy Reagan portrait @r407 looks a bit like Dana Wynter or Claire Bloom. Maybe with a little Marsha Hunt or Ilka Chase thrown in for good measure?

[quote]R418's pic reminds me of actor Anthony Quinn.

That is John Decker's portrait of Anthony Quinn.

John Decker's portrait of Kitty March, a character played by Joan Bennett is also in the link.

[quote]The Nancy Reagan portrait @[R407] looks a bit like Dana Wynter or Claire Bloom. Maybe with a little Marsha Hunt or Ilka Chase thrown in for good measure?

Nancy probably asked the painter to make her look slim and stylish and the result isn't half bad. Jackie Kennedy's portrait is less successful, in my opinion.

Some very good choices on this thread - interesting, less well known paintings.

IIn the OP's spirit I had a panic attack after seeing Frida Khalo's "The Two Fridas" in Mexico City.

Hello peasants. Aren't I regal?

What Ireland Would Look Like as a Woman by John Lavery. Classic ideal Irish features of pale milky complexion with dark hair and dark eyes. However, the backstory is more than meets the eye. The tl;dr jist is the personification of Ireland is composed of an American woman (the artist's wife) married to a Belfast-born Catholic who based it on a 20th century regurgitation of a 16th century Gaelic poetry concept The result therefore quite accurately summarises where Ireland is today.

Anton Raphael Mengs self portrait

Antea by Parmigianino

Prince Charles by Bryan Organ

My favorite one has already been posted by R393 so I'll go with this one: Portrait of a Carthusian by Petrus Christus, from 1446.

Without that beard he'd be a total hottie

Saudade by the Brazilian artist Almeida Junior

Paul Gauguin's Woman With A Flower.

Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait.

I recently saw a special on the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and this Leonardo Da Vinci "Madonna Litti"was shown. That Catherine the Great of Russia sure bought some wonderful art when she reigned.

R433, meet R371, R329 and R44.

Thomas Francis Dicksee's portrait of Amy Robsart is a beauty!

John Singer Sargent oil portraits. This one is Violet Hammersley. His work is gorgeous.

Escaping Criticism by Peer Borrell del Caso

* Pere Borrell

The Railway by Edouard Manet

Heathens! It's not a portrait unless Jesus is in it, and his mother is teaching him how to crush the serpent.

But I don't want to look at Christ's willy. Those earthy Italians.

HRH in her Garter robes. It's not my favourite of all time, but it's my favourite royal portrait of the 20th c.

Inspiration of St. Matthew by Caravaggio

Our Lord and Savior.

I like Norman Rockwell, too... and his interpretation of American life back in the day. To me, they're portraits of everyday life.

A new discovery for me - Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller's "Young Peasant Woman With Three Children At The Window".

The window becomes the frame.

I like the eyes and the outfit of "The Woman in Fur Hat" by Gretchen Rogers.

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

1892

by John Singer Sargent

Lovely painting, R449. Thanks for posting it twice.

Bashi-Bazouk by Gérôme

Marie Bashkirtseff's "At A Book". The artist died at 25 years old from tuberculosis.

South African artist Ryan Hewett's portrait called "Rise".

The title of this thread should be "post a wonderful portrait" not "your favorite portrait."

Here's mine. It used to be my favorite when I was a young teen.

This painting called "The Kiss" by Francis Picabia always makes me laugh. The man looks deranged as he practically devours the woman.

"Hymn" by Venezuelan artist Angel Ramiro Sanchez. Is she floating or falling?

Raphael's portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. The detail in the whole painting is incredible.

[350] : Monsieur Humbert, did you know that Balthus gave Nabokov one of his pictures, "in gratitude" for Lolita?

A recent fave, Portrait of a Man, in red chalk, by Annibale Carracci

Fragonard's "The Swing".

Some of these portraits are so good, they look like photographs. The amazing talent of these artists... truly awesome.

At first glance, I thought this portrait was a photograph.

Zhao Kailin - "The Emotion of Daughter II"

Ghent Altarpiece

Adoration of the Magi by Giotto

Venus of Urbino by Titian

Reflection (Self Portrait) by Lucian Freud

I like many of Gustav Klimt's portraits and this one is a favorite.

A portrait to celebrate Christmas today...Viggo Johansen's "Silent Night".

A portrait to celebrate Christmas today...Viggo Johansen's "Silent Night".

A portrait to celebrate Christmas today...Viggo Johansen's "Silent Night".

Sorry for the double post above.

Here is another great Christmas portrait..."Christmas In America" by Alphonse Mucha.

Yes, R468, but is it a portrait if you can barely see their faces.

Portrait of a Scholar by Chae Yongsin

Honeysuckle Bower by Rubens, showing off his muscular legs.

Seated Harlequin by Picasso

The Duke of Wellington by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Luncheon in the Studio by Manet

Someone has gayface.

Portrait of General Lu Chian-Kuei and his Wife, Lu Tai Tai

Ramon Casas painting called "The Young Decadent (After The Ball)".

This is many of us after Christmas dinner.

R478, meet R392.

King Louis XV of France by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

[quote]did you ever wonder what happened to that sweet little princess in Las Meninas? This is her at age 15. She died at a young age from poor health after being basically turned into a broodmare. Tragically, for all of her many pregnancies (she had six before the age of 21), only one child survived.

Boy, she sure looks like a Habsburg.

John Singer Sargent's portrait of the Acheson sisters.

Madame Duvaucey by Ingres

A Virgin by Abbott Henderson Thayer

Girl with.... portrait of Frederike Höppner by Michal Ožibko

I win. Thread closed.

A new favorite - Danish artist Laurits Andersen Ring's portrait of his wife in the garden.

Lawrence Alma-Tadema's "Coign of Vantage".

I can't pick one of Franz Xaver Winterhalter's portraits of royal and aristocratic ladies. Here are some of his best.

Maria Serra Pallavicino by Rubens

Léon Riesener by Eugène Delacroix

St. Cecilia by Guido Reni

French Consul Le Blond by Rosalba Carriera

Gwen John's "Girl With Bare Shoulders". This portrait fills me with melancholy.

Agnes Cleve's Self Portrait.

Ellen Thesleff's "Self Portrait". The face looks like a grainy photograph.

American artist Romaine Brooks self portrait "At The Seaside".

By William Bruce Ellis Ranken:

This thread would not be complete without...

Tamara de Lempicka's "Saint Thérès d'Avila".

Fred Brewer by Henry Scott Tuke

The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent. One of the most innovative and enigmatically composed portraits in history. Gorgeous and glorious in terms of mood, coloring, composition, mystery, and painterly freedom. And it is enormous. An entire wall is dedicated to it at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, with nothing at either side to distract from its power. None of the Daughters Boit ever married and they bequested the painting to the MFA.

Henry VIII with a turkey leg... but he's not actually holding a turkey leg.

Maybe already posted but too lazy to go through 503 replies.

Lady With a Red Hat ( portrait of Vita Sackville-West) by William Strang

^ Saint Thérèse

I love this painting.

r502 Last time I was in the MFA, Boston, they had the actual large Asian urns depicted in the photo on display in the same room. Someone had donated them to the museum to be a companion piece to the Sargent portrait.

I meant "painting" not "photo." I wish Datalounge allowed corrections to posts within 10 minutes or so.

It's hard to choose just one of Franz Xaver Winterhalter's portraits so here are ten great choices.

The eyes of this lady in Juana Romani's portrait are scary.

"Firelight" by Alice Pike Barney.

Portrait of a young man by Corneille de Lyon. His early portraits have al almost rough vitality that was smoothed out once he became a court painter to Henri II of France. These small panels were painted from life with no preparatory drawings.

Another early Portrait by Corneille de Lyon. The unknown man is a sexy rascal with a knowing smile.

I love the carefree look of "Une Australienne" by Hilda Rix Nicholas.

It's all in the eyes...Zinaida Serebriakova's "A Girl With A Candle, Self Portrait".

Annie Louisa Swynnerton's "Tryst". I love the look on this subject's face.

Princess Augusta of Great Britain by Thomas Gainsborough.

Recently saw this John Singer Sargent work, Young Man in Reverie.

Did Sargent have him? Lucky guy.

Whistler's "Girl in White"

A new find - Spanish artist Lita Cabellut.

I like this painting and the title isn't bad either.

Jusepe de Ribera's "Ecce Homo".

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's "Saint Peter In Tears". Such anguish.

Regarding r447. Is it just me or is this beautiful portrait marred by a fucked up rendering of the child on the left. Wonky-eyed to the extreme.

Bathsheba at Her Bath by Rembrandt

Okay let me try another link

Pat Nixon's is supposed to be one of the best in the White House collection. But she seems very sad--with cause.

Lee Miller's self portrait.

She knew what she was doing.

enjoy

Leonardo Da Vinci's "Lady With An Ermine". There's some interesting info on the female subject in this portrait if you click on the post below.

German artist August Macke's portrait of his wife in a hat.

Amedeo Modigliani's "Woman In Blue Dress Seated".

Claude Monet 's "Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son". A peaceful scene, all the more poignant when we learn of the tragic destiny ahead for Madame. About four years after this portrait was painted, she was dead of tuberculosis at just 32 years of age.

R12, wow...

R21, omg...

A new discovery - American Devon Leonardi's "Two Friends On The Shore Of Long Island". The artist committed suicide in his early thirties.

Marc Dalessio's "Candy". The eyes are the windows of the soul.

Sidney Harold Meteyard 's "Hope Comforting Love in Bondage".

German artist Hans Christiansen's beautiful "Portrait of a Young Man".