jaded-mandarin:

Henri Gascar. Portrait of a Lady, 17th Century.

c0ssette:

Ladislas Wladislaw Von Czachorski (Polish, 1850-1911) 

John Vanderbank. Portrait of a Lady, 1731.

the-garden-of-delights:

“Spring’s New Arrivals” by Charles Louis Baugniet (1814-1886).

fleurdulys:

Dark Haired Beauty in a Turquoise Dress - Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

19th century

fleurdulys:

An Afternoon Idyll - Auguste Toulmouche

1874

dutch-and-flemish-painters:

thatsantonio:

Nicaise de Keyser (Flemish, 1813-87), “The Orient and the Occident”.

Nicaise de Keyser (26 August 1813 Zandvliet - 17 July 1887 Antwerp), was a Belgian painter who has his talent discovered by the painter Joseph Jacobs who got him a place in the Antwerp art academy. Having debuted with religious pictures, he later had his attention drawn to his country’s history. He is known for having painted mostly portraits and elegant historical genre pictures

dutch-and-flemish-painters:

pmikos

Nicaise De Keyser - Portrait of- grand- duchess Olga Nikolayevna

old-fashionedcharm:

Welcomed Attention - Federico Andreotti

thevictorianduchess:

Queen Elizabeth I
Unknown
Oil on panel
c. 1575

marie-antoinette_koningin_der_fransen

Queen Margarita’s lips display the Habsburg pout in this 1620 portrait of Queen Margarita by Bartolomé González y Serrano.

1545 Katherine Parr

fleurdulys:

Gossip on the Stairs - Otto Erdmann

1873

Alain Chartier (1903) by Edmund Leighton.