#portraits of historical women

[angie-massei]

Another one from my diploma. It’s quite old already and I think I’ll draw them all again, haha.

Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (28 June 1641 – 30 January 1716), known also by the diminutive form "Marysieńka", was a French noblewoman who became the queen consort of Poland and grand duchess consort of Lithuania from 1674 to 1696 by her marriage to King and Grand Duke John III Sobieski of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Portraits of her under the cut:

[die-rosastrasse]

Piero di Cosimo

Italian, 1462-1522

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, 1490 (detail)

[la-belle-histoire]

Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth), John Singer Sargent. 1897.

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Suleiman I (1541) by Cristofano dell'Altissimo. Pera Museum.

[throughtheages]

Portraits of Moroccans by Spanish artist José Tapiro y Baro (1830-1913) 

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Barbara Krafft, Portrait of Anna Maria Lergetporer (1811) (detail)

via historicalbeauty

[marejadilla]

Francis Bernard Dicksee, “The Two Crowns” & detail, 1900, oil on canvas. (1853 - 1928), English Victorian painter and illustrator known for his paintings of dramatic and historical literature, legends, and women portraits.

[sydneytheeandean]

[royaltea000]

drawing him completely clothed as repentance for drawing him completely nude

[resplendentoutfit]

Girls in white dresses...

because summer's not yet over, right?

Regency Era

Rolinda Sharples (British, 1793-1838 ) • Portrait of the Artist • 1814 • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Victorian Era

Anton Einsle (Austrian, 1801–1871) • Portrait of a Lady in a Hat • c. mid 19th century

Edwardian Era

Frank Dicksee (British/English, 1853–1928) • Lady Hillingdon • 1905

Roaring 20s

Gerald Festus Kelly (British, 1879–1972) • The Countess of Lisburne • 1926 • Ferrens Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK

[taniatas]

Young Margaret Beaufort with baby Henry VII of England.

[daguerreotype-era]

1/6 daguerreotype

[ariadnethedragon]

THE GENTLEMAN’S GAMBIT by EVIE DUNMORE

“We broke your spectacles, too … I shall fix them for you.”

The Arabic language offered many romantic possibilities, at least eleven different words for love to precisely capture the various stages of the emotion, and perhaps, secretly, she had expected more elaborate verbal wooing from him. Yet here he was, making her swoon with a plain I shall fix them for you.

[la-belle-histoire]

Madame Gautreau, 1891. Gustave Courtois.

[diemelusine]

Young woman in a black and green bonnet, looking down (c. 1890). By Mary Cassatt. Princeton University Art Museum.

[throughtheages]

Māori woman, Mrs. Rabone, in 1870.