Examples of portraits by artists who were born between
1701 and 1800:
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chronologically by artist's birth year
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Jean-Étienne Liotard (Swiss, 1702-1789),
Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone
at Seven Years of Age, 1755-1756, pastel
on vellum, 22 1/2 x 18 1/2
inches (57.2 x 47 cm), J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA. See
Rococo.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792), General John Burgoyne, c. 1766, oil
on canvas, 50 x 39 7/8
inches (127 x 101.3 cm), Frick Collection, NY.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Doctor Samuel Johnson, c. 1772, oil
on canvas, 75.6 x 62.2
cm, Tate Gallery, London. Samuel Johnson wrote the best English
dictionary prior to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Master Hare, 1788-1789, oil on canvas, 0.77 x 0.63 m, Louvre. The subject is Francis George Hare (1786-1842) at two years of age.
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727-1788),
Gainsborough Dupont, c. 1770-5, oil
on canvas, 44.5 x 36.2
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Thomas Gainsborough, The Artist's Daughter Margaret, c. 1772,
oil on canvas,
75.6 x 62.9 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of a Lady in Blue, late 1770s,
oil on canvas,
30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Thomas Gainsborough, The Hon. Frances Duncombe, c. 1777, oil on canvas, 92 1/4 x 61 1/8 inches (234.3 x 155.2 cm), Frick Collection, NY.
Thomas Gainsborough, The Baillie Family, c. 1784, oil
on canvas, 250.8 x 227.3
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
John Singleton Copley (American and British, 1738-1815), Hugh Hall, 1758, pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 15 1/2 x 13 inches (39.4 x 33 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
John Singleton Copley (American and British,
1738-1815), Daniel Crommelin Verplanck, 1771, oil on canvas,
49 1/2 x 40 inches (127.3 x 101.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY. Born and raised in New York City, Daniel was nine years
old when Copley painted this portrait of him. See Colonial
American art.
John Singleton Copley, Portrait of a Lady, 1771, oil on canvas, 49 7/8 x 39
1/2 inches (126.7 x 100.3 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
America's foremost painter of the eighteenth century, Copley
depicted this lady with an intensive realism equaled by few of his American
contemporaries — various textures rendered
with remarkable precision.
Charles Willson Peale (American, 1741-1827),
George Washington, c. 1779-1781, oil on canvas,
95 x 61 3/4 inches (241.3 x 154.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
(Spanish, 1746-1828), Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, Maria Agustina,
1787-1788, oil on canvas,
76 7/8 x 45 1/4 inches (195 x 115 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes,
Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784-1792),
possibly 1790s, oil on
canvas, 50 x 40 inches
(127 x 101.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (On the Met's
page, you can enlarge any detail.)
Toshusai Sharaku (Japanese), The
Two Actors Sanogawa Ichimatsu III and Ichikawa Tomiemon,
1774, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Berlin. See Japanese art and theater.
Jacques Louis David, The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Josephine (December 2, 1804), 1806-1807, oil on canvas, 6.21 x 9.79 m, Louvre. This is an example of a group portrait.
Gilbert Stuart (American, 1755-1828), George Washington, 1795, oil
on canvas, 30 1/4 x 25
1/4 inches (76.8 x 64.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
See Colonial American art.
Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of James Ward, 1799, oil
on canvas, 29 1/2 x 25
inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Gilbert Stuart, Mrs. Perez Morton, c. 1802, oil
on canvas, Worcester Art
Museum, MA.
Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun
(1755-1842), Portrait of Countess Maria Theresia Bucquoi,
née Parr (1746-1818), 1793, oil on canvas, 53
1/2 x 39 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. See feminism
and feminist art.
Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Portrait of Princess Belozersky, 1798, oil on canvas, 24 3/4 x 30 1/4 inches, National Museum of Women in Art, Washington, DC.
John Trumbull (American, 1756-1843), John Adams (1735-1826), second president of the US (1797-1801), 1793, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (English, 1769-1830), Philadelphia Hannah, 1st Viscountess Cremorne, 1789, oil on canvas, 240.3 x 148.0 cm, Tate Gallery, London.
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Elizabeth Farren (c. 1759-1829), Later Countess
of Derby, 1790, oil
on canvas, 94 x 57 1/2
inches (238.8 x 146.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. (On
the Met's page, you can enlarge any detail.)
Mihr Ali (Iranian), Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Seated, 1229
A.H. / A.D.
1813-1814, oil on canvas,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. See portrait.
Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George
Washington (1732-1799), first president of the USA (1789-1797),
probably 1853, oil on canvas, National Portrait
Gallery, Washington, DC. This is one of many versions of Rembrandt
Peale's so-called "porthole portrait" of Washington.
Based on a life portrait done by Peale in 1795 at the age of
seventeen, it has a monumental
solemnity that held great appeal for nineteenth-century Americans.
Jean-August-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867),
Portrait of Count N. D. Guriev, 1821,
oil on canvas,
42 x 34 inches (107 x 86 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
Russia. See Neoclassicism.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Louis-François Bertin (1766-1841), 1832, oil on canvas, 1.16 x 0.95 m, Louvre.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie (1851-1853), oil on canvas,
47 3/4 x 35 3/4 inches (121.3 x 90.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY. See drapery.
Thomas Sully (American, 1783-1872), Portrait of
George Washington, c. 1820, oil
on canvas, Minneapolis
Institute of Arts.
Charles Bird King (American, 1785-1862),
after Gilbert Stuart,
Thomas
Jefferson (1743-1826), third president of the US (1801-1809),
1836, oil on panel,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. See grisaille.
Ralph E. W. Earl (American, 1788?-1838),
Andrew
Jackson (1767-1845) seventh president of the US (1829-1837),
not dated, oil on canvas,
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
Samuel F. B. Morse (American, 1791-1872),
Susan Walker Morse (The Muse), c. 1836-1837,
oil on canvas,
73 3/4 x 57 5/8 inches (187.3 x 147.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY.
George Catlin (American, 1796-1872)
Eliza Goodridge (American, 1798-1882), Stephen Salisbury III, 1838, oil
on canvas, Worcester Art
Museum, MA.
Examples of portraits by artists who were born earlier or later than those represented above:
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