Lucas Cranach the younger. Portrait of a Lady (‘Weibliches Bildnis’), 1564 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on lime: 106.5 x 89.5 cm. Pendant with a portrait of an unidentified man, with the same distinct shadow on the wall.

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Titian. Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg (‘Carlos V en la batalla de Mühlberg’), 1548 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 335 x 283 cm(!).

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Wim Schuhmacher. Russian Woman ('Russische Vrouw'), 1926 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht).

Oil on canvas: 92.3 x 131.5 cm. Portrait of his Latvian friend Melitta Lass (1890-1967).

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Cuno Amiet. The green Hat (‘Der grüne Hut’), 1898 (Kunstmuseum Solothurn).

 

Oil on canvas: 61 x 50 cm. The artist’s wife Anna Amiet-Luder (1874-1953).

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Amedeo Modigliani. Seated Woman in a Blue Dress (‘Femme assise à la robe bleue’/ ‘Sittande kvinna I blå klänning’), ca. 1919 (Moderna Museet, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 92 x 60 cm.

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James Jebusa Shannon. Portrait of Violet Lindsay Manners - Duchess of Rutland, 1918 (Plas Newydd, Anglesey).

Oil on canvas: 89.5 x 59.1 cm.

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Rogier van der Weyden. Portrait of a Woman with a winged Bonnet (‘Bildnis einer jungen Frau’), ca. 1440 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on oak: 47 x 32 cm.

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Anthonis Mor (van Dashorst). Portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (‘Portret van Sir Thomas Gresham’), ca. 1565 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 90 x 75.5 cm. Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-1579). Merchant and financial agent of the English crown in the Netherlands, founder of the Royal Exchange. Pendant panel with a portrait of wife Anne Fernely.

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Alexander Roslin. Zoie Ghika - Moldavian Princess, 1777 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 64.7 x 53 cm. No wig in 1777.

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Anders Zorn. Portrait of Martha Dana, 1899 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).

Oil on canvas: 68.6 x 50.8 cm. Martha Isabella Dana (1872-1960) of Boston, here in her late twenties. She had this portrait commissioned while Zorn stayed in the USA. Within a couple of years after this portrait she married William Robert Mercer (1862-1939). They were both part of the wealthy upper class, and they both inherited considerable sums. Having no kids, they seem to have doted on their pets. Their private pet cemetery is still at Aldie Mansion, Doylestown/ PA (they even buried several horses). Dana would later become a prominent benefactor to local arts institutions. In 1928 she donated this portrait to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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Lisa Brice. Gertrude smoking, 2017 (artist’s portfolio).

Oil on paper: 42 x 29.7 cm.

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Félix Vallotton. The Letter (‘La Lettre’), 1914 (La Boverie, Liège).

Oil on canvas: 88 x 82 cm.

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Tyko Sallinen. Mirri, 1909 (Amos Rex, Helsinki).

Oil on canvas: 60 x 57 cm. The artist’s wife Helmi Lydia Vartiainen (1888-1920).

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Francis Bacon. Portrait of George Dyer in a Mirror (‘Retrato de George Dyer en un espejo’), 1968 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).

Oil on canvas: 198 x 147 cm.

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Jan Sluijters. Lies with a Tarzanbook (‘Lies met Tarzanboek’/ ‘Portret van dochter Lies’), 1938 (Drents Museum, Assen).

Oil on canvas: 130 x 110 cm.

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Prudence Heward. Rollande, 1929 (National Gallery of Canada, Ontario).

Oil on canvas: 139.9 x 101.7 cm.

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Carl Joseph Begas. Wilhelmine Begas - the Artist’s Wife (‘Frau Wilhelmine Begas - die Gattin des Künstlers’), 1828 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 66 x 56 cm.

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Adriaen Thomasz Key (attributed). Johan II Knight of Mauregnault (‘Ridder Johan II de Mauregnault’), ca. 1580 (Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp).

Oil on oak: 104.5 x 73.8 cm. Part of a double portrait with wife Marguerite Le Prince.

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Rudolf Schlichter. Speedy as Madonna (‘Speedy als Madonna vor Schwäbischer Alb’), ca. 1934 (Kunststiftung der Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw, Pforzheim).

Oil on canvas: 78.2 x 56 cm. The artist’s wife Elfriede Elisabeth Koehler (1902-1975). Auctioned at Grisebach Berlin, December 2020.

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Peter Paul Rubens. Portrait of a young Woman with a Rosary (‘Retrato de una joven dama con rosario’), ca. 1610 (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 107 x 76.7 cm.

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