History of portrait paintings by view of subject
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Head[edit]
Since 1350/1360s
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Anonymous , John II the Good (c. 1350)
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Anonymous , Rudolf IV (c. 1365)
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Robert Campin, Bold man (c. 1425)
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Antonello da Messina. A man (1470)
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Pietro Perugino. Pala di Vallombrosa (Ritratto di Baldassarre Vallombrosano). (1500)
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Anthonis van Dyck - Cornelis van der Geest (c. 1620)
Head and shoulders[edit]
Since 1420s
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Dieric Bouts. A man (c. 1470)
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Antonello da Messina - Portrait of a Man (1475-6)
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El Greco - An Elderly Gentleman (1587-1600)
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Velázquez - Francisco Pacheco (c. 1622)
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Velazquez. Self-portrait (1635)
Bust length[edit]
Netherlands - since 1420/1430s; Italy since 1440/1460s
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Robert Campin. Women (c. 1430)
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Jan van Eyck. Kardinal Nicholaes Albergati (c. 1435)
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Pisanello. Lionello d'Este (1441)
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Petrus Christus. Carthusian (1446)
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Piero della Francesca, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. (c. 1451)
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Mantegna. Carlo de' Medici (1459)
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Antonello da Messina. A man (c.1465-70)
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Piero della Francesca, Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro (1472)
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Antonello da Messina. Trivulzio (1476)
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Antonello da Messina - Portrait of a Young Man (1478)
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Botticelli. Lorenzo il Popolano (c. 1479)
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Leonardo da Vinci - Portrait of a Musician (1485–1490)
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Juan de Flandes. Infanta (c. 1496)
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Giovanni Bellini. The Doge Leonardo Loredan (after 1501)
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Raphael. A man (1506)
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Rubens. Lady of the Chamber to Infanta Isabella (c. 1625)
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Johannes Vermeer, The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665)
Half-length: from head to waist[edit]
Netherlands - since 1450s; Italy since 1480/1500s
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Rogier van der Weyden
Portrait of a lady (1460) -
Alesso Baldovinetti. Lady in yellow (c. 1465)
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Botticelli. Young Woman, probably Simonetta Vespucci (1475-80)
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Agnolo di Domenico del Mazziere, Youth (1495-1500)
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Pintoricchio. A boy (c. 1500)
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Albrecht Dürer
Self-portrait (1500) -
Raphael. Young Man with an Apple (1503–1504)
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Titian, Man in blue (1512)
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Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (1514-1515)
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Jean Clouet
Francis I of France (c. 1525) -
El Greco, The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest (c. 1580)
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Alexander Roslin, The Lady with the Veil (The Artist's Wife) (1768)
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Joseph Karl Stieler, Madame Mère de l’Empereur (1811)
Half-length: from head to hips[edit]
Since 1500/1510s
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Filippo Lippi. Portrait of a Man and Woman at a Casement (c. 1440)
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Botticelli. Smeralda Bandinelli (1470-5)
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Lorenzo di Credi. A lady (1490-1500)
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Raphael. Lady with unicorn (1506)
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Titian. Young Englishman (1540)
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Rubens, Susanna Fourment (1625)
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Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavalier (1624)
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Velázquez. Lady with a Fan (1635)
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Rembrandt - Jan Six (1654)
Three-quarter length: from head to knees[edit]
Since 1550s
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Raphael. Pope Julius II (1511)
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Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo (1545)
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Titian. Isabel of Portugal (1548)
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Anthonis Mor, Portrait of Mary Tudor (1554)
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Sofonisba Anguissola. Alessandro Farnese (1560)
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Rubens. Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria (1606)
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El Greco. Fray Hortensio Félix Paravicino (1609)
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Anthonis van Dyck - Self-portrait (1622-3)
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Diego Velázquez, Pope Innocent X (1650)
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Nicolas de Largillière, The Beautiful Strasbourg Woman (1703)
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Self-portrait of Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun with daughter (1789)
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Ingres. Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière (1805)
Full-length[edit]
North Renaissance - since 1520/1530s; Italy - 1560s
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Cranach. Heinrichs des Frommen und Katharina von Mecklenburg (1514)
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Hans Wertinger. Jester Knight Christoph (1515)
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Hans Holbein der Jüngere
The Ambassadors (1533) -
After Holbein. Henry VIII (after 1530)
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Jakob Seisenegger. Charles V Standing with His Dog (1532)
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Titian. Charles V Standing with His Dog (1533)
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Titian. Portrait of a General (c. 1550)
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Paolo Veronese - Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and her Daughter Deidamia (1552)
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Giovanni Battista Moroni - A Knight with his Jousting Helmet (1554)
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Giovanni Battista Moroni. Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli (The Gentleman in Pink) (1560)
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Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait') (c. 1592)
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El Greco, Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (c. 1600)
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Rubens. Helene Fourment in her Bridal Gown by Rubens (1630)
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Anthonis van Dyck - Portrait of Elena Grimaldi (1623)
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Velázquez. Philip IV in Brown and Silver (1631-2)
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Hyacinthe Rigaud. Louis XIV en costume de sacre (1702)
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Thomas Gainsborough, Master Jonathan Buttall: Blue Boy (1770)
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Thomas Lawrence, Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie (1794)
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Goya. The Duchess of Alba in White (1795)
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John Singer Sargent, Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) (1884)