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James Herring

James Herring (born in London, 12 January 1794; died in Paris, October 1867) was a United States portrait painter.


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Amos Noë Freeman

One of their daughters, Laura Wheeler Waring, became a portrait painter known for her work during the Harlem Renaissance.

Andrey Avinoff

He was also the brother of the famous portrait painter Elizabeth Shoumatoff, who is most famous for painting Frankin Delano Roosevelt at the moment when he collapsed and died.

Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Born in Florence, Gabbiani first apprenticed with the Medici court portrait painter Justus Sustermans, then with the Florentine Vincenzo Dandini; subsequently moved to Rome in 1673 he arrived in Rome, where he studied under the Medici-sponsored Accademia Fiorentina, led by Ciro Ferri and Ercole Ferrata.

Charles Jarvis

Charles Jervas (c.1675–1739), sometimes known as Charles Jarvis, Irish portrait painter

Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough

he secretly married Anastasia Robinson (ca. 1695–1755), a famous dramatic singer (from 1714) of great beauty and sweetness of disposition, daughter of Thomas Robinson (died 1722), a portrait painter; but she was at first unrecognized as his wife, and lived apart from him (regarded merely as his mistress) with her two sisters at Parson's Green.

Charles Willson Peale

The sons included Raphaelle Peale (1774–1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), who was another famous portrait painter and museum owner/operator in Baltimore, and scientific inventor and businessman, and Rubens Peale (1784–1865).

Charmian

Charmian Campbell (1942–2009), British socialite and portrait painter

Debacq

Charles-Alexandre Debacq (1804-1863), a French historical and portrait painter.

Đura Jakšić

During his lifetime and after, though Jakšiċ had many admirers—they included Konstantin Danil, his former art teacher, portrait painter Katarina Ivanović, Uroš Knežević, painters Pavle Čorbanović, Jovan Popović, and Đorđe Krstić, and, among the poets and writers, Laza Kostić, Simo Matavulj, Kosta Trifković, Svetozar Miletić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Vojislav Ilić.

Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial

Perth portrait painter Margaret Johnson was selected to sculpt Cowan's portrait, and W. Ogilvy won the construction contract.

Edward A'Beckett

Edward à Beckett (1844–1932), Australian portrait painter, brother of Thomas à Beckett

Francis Dennis Ramsay

His formal training included reading Architecture at University College London and three years’ study in Florence (1953–1955) as a pupil of Pietro Annigoni (1910–1988), the internationally renowned grande maestro portrait painter of the 20th century (Annigoni subsequently became a godfather to Ramsay’s younger son, Justin).

Gammell

R. H. Ives Gammell (born 1893), American muralist, portrait painter, art teacher, and writer on art

George Dawe

In 1826 Nicholas I invited him to his coronation ceremony and in 1828 he was officially appointed First Portrait Painter of the Imperial Court.

George Knapton

George Knapton (1698–1778) was an English portrait painter and the first portraitist for the Society of Dilettanti in the 1740s.

Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath

Heinrich Jakob Aldenrath (17 February 1775, Lübeck – 25 February 1844, Hamburg) was a portrait painter, miniaturist, and lithographer.

Hermann Winterhalter

Hermann Fidel Winterhalter (23 September 1808 – 24 February 1891) was a German painter, younger brother of the portrait painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806-73).

Holbein stitch

The stitch is named after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), a 16th-century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated with blackwork embroidery.

James MacGill

A portrait painter working in Scotland at this time, Arnold Bronckorst, was associated with Cornelius and Nicholas Hilliard.

James Waddell Alexander II

He was the only child of the American portrait painter John White Alexander and Elizabeth Alexander.

Johann Christoph Rincklake

Johann Christoph Rincklake (19 October 1764 in Harsewinkel - 19 June 1813 in Münster) was a German portrait painter of the Romantic era, with a high standing in international art history.

John Seymour Lucas

As his reputation grew, Lucas increasingly mixed in society circles, and became firm friends with the famous society portrait painter John Singer Sargent who was his almost exact contemporary.

Jon Molvig

Molvig was an accomplished and honest portrait painter - painting fellow artists Charles Blackman, John Rigby, Joy Roggenkamp, Russell Drysdale and Barry Humphries as well as many privately commissioned portraits, i.e., Paul Beadle, Sir Charles Moses, Sir Percy Spender, Clem Jones and Dr. Scougall.

Josef Anton Gegenbauer

Josef Anton von Gegenbaur (6 March 1800, Wangen, Württemberg – 31 January 1876, Rome) was an accomplished German historical and portrait painter.

Joseph Tepper

He was an active portrait painter well into his 70s and many famous people were among his subjects including Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter of the US Supreme Court, Professors George Lyman Kittredge and Paul Freund of Harvard University, Cardinal Stritch, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Hayim Bialik, Ahad Ha-Am, Henrietta Szold, and many more.

Joseph-François Ducq

Joseph-François Ducq, a Flemish historical and portrait painter, was born at Ledeghem in 1763.

Kevin Dillon

Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Mary Ellen, a homemaker, and Paul Dillon, a portrait painter sales manager, and golf coach at Fordham University.

Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, German-born English portrait painter, brother of Andreas

Leonardo Alenza

He studied art under Juan Rivera and José de Madrazo, and became a good portrait painter, but was more especially famous for his pictures of the lower classes at play and work.

Marcus Gheeraerts

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (1562–1635), English portrait painter and son of the above

Margaret Lindsay Williams

She is best known as a portrait painter and was commissioned to paint portraits of Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, at least five portraits of the present Queen Elizabeth II, President Warren Harding, Henry Ford, and Field Marshal Slim.

Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati, known as Pietro Pezzati, was an American portrait painter

Pietro Pezzati

Peter S. Pezzati aka Pietro Pezzati (1902 - 1993), American portrait painter

Ravesteyn

Arnold van Ravesteyn, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, son of the former

Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell

Gloria Rodd, married the painter Simon Elwes, by whom she had a four sons, including the portrait painter Dominick Elwes, whose own son is the actor Cary Elwes.

Richard Mock

Mock was named the official portrait painter of the 1980 Olympics.

Robert Lucas de Pearsall

She was the daughter of a moderately successful portrait painter, William Armfield Hobday (1771-1831).

Robert Walker Macbeth

His father was the portrait painter Norman Macbeth and his niece Ann Macbeth.

Stanley Lewis

Stanley Cornwell Lewis (1905–2009), British portrait painter and illustrator

The Jackpot

Answering a phone call, he wins $24,000 worth of merchandise from a radio quiz program and is overwhelmed by prizes which range from the useful to the absurd, including a side of beef, 7,500 cans of soup, 1,000 fruit trees, a Palomino pony, a portable swimming pool, a diamond ring, a French maid, an interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) and portrait painter Hilda Jones (Patricia Medina).

Thomas Barker

Thomas Jones Barker (1815–1882), English historical and portrait painter

Willem Wissing

Wissing died in 1687 at the peak of his fame as a portrait painter, at Burghley House, the home of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter near Stamford in Lincolnshire.

William Armfield Hobday

William Armfield Hobday (1771 – 17 Feb 1831) was an English portrait painter and miniaturist whose clientele included royalty and the Rothschild family.

William Jacob Baer

Upon his return to the United States, Baer settled into the Montclair, New Jersey art colony to continue his career as a genre, portrait painter and teacher.