(c.1635).
Hendrick Pot (Dutch, c.1580-1657).
Oil on panel.
Gartenpalais Liechtenstein.
In this painting the artist combines the genre scene and portraiture; the portrait of the woman is integrated into an everyday scene as she reads at the table with her dog below.
There is a companion-piece, Portrait of a Man, portraying obviously the husband of the unidentified woman.
Italian Girl (1915).
Oil on canvas.
Lillie Art Gallery.
Strang was also a gifted portrait painter, whose sitters included Thomas Hardy, Lucien Pissarro and Vita Sackville-West.
Although his work was widely admired, as one contemporary critic noted, Strang is neither an Academicist nor a Classicist, nor a Romanticist; neither an Impressionist nor a Post-Impressionist; he presents himself indeed to the impatient or merely casual observer in Protean illusiveness.
Mrs. Littleton (exh.1822)
Oil on canvas.
Laing Art Gallery.
Hyacinthe Littleton was married to Edward Littleton, Member of Parliament for Stafford.
A pearl drop decoration sets off the fashionable simplicity of Mrs Littletons dress. The drawing folder in her hand was probably included to show that she was artistically skilled.
The folder seems to jut out from the edge of the oval surround to the image. This helps to create a three-dimensional quality for the pictur
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema,
aka Lourens Alma Tadema
(Dutch, 1836 - 1912)
Interrupted
(also known as A Type of Feminine/Female Beauty)
Leighton House Museum (United Kingdom - London)   
Dates: 1880
Artist age: Approximately 44 years old.
Dutch Baroque painter
(Leiden, January 1629 - Amsterdam, buried 24 October 1667).
Old Woman Meditating
(also known as A Old woman with a Book in Her Lap)
Rijksmuseum (Netherlands - Amsterdam)   
Dates: 1661-1663
Artist age: Approximately 34 years old.
Copleys portraits of the early 1770s are sober. As in Portrait of a Lady, the subject usually is posed before a vacant, dark background.
A strong light partially illuminates the figure, which is otherwise enveloped by shadows. An almost stark simplicity gives the portrait at once a greater sense of sculptural form and a tougher, more forceful realism.
Although the setting of the portrait is simple, it contains a prominent note of luxury and even ostentation.
Portrait of a Young Lady (c.1758-1760).
Oil on canvas.
In 1760, around the time this portrait was painted, Wright embarked on a tour of neighboring Midland towns, painting portraits of local middle class families and landed gentry.
Wright perfectly captures the poise and charm of his sitter, who stares out at us with a remarkable confidence that belies her youth.
She wears a blue satin gown with strung pearls woven around the bodice and sleeves, and entwined in her hair.