lifestyle leader: BRILLIANT OLD PORTRAIT (PART 2)

Saturday, January 9, 2010

ELEANOR of Austria (1498-1558), Queen of Portugal and Queen of France

Portrait: Joos Van Cleve

JAMES ABBOTT McNEILL WHISTLER (1834-1903), American painter

Portrait: Walter Greaves

RENE’ DESCARTES (1596-1650), French philosopher

Portrait: Frans Hals

CHRISTIAN II (1481-1559), King of Denmark

Portrait: Jan Mabuse

FERDINANDO VII (1784-1833), King of Spain

Portrait: Francisco de Goya

MARGUERITE MORENO (1871-1948), French actress

Portrait: Joseph Granié

HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER (1850-1916), British Field Marshal

Portrait: Hubert von Herkomer & Frederick Goodall

BIANCA CAPELLO de’ MEDICI (1548-1587), Italian noblewoman, second wife of Francesco I de’ Medici

Portrait: Lavinia Fontana

MARGARET of Austria (1584-1611), Queen of Spain, wife of Philip III

Portrait: Bartolomé Gonzales

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745), Irish writer

Portrait: Charles Jervas

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704), English philosopher

Portrait: Godfrey Kneller

MARGARET KEMBLE GAGE (1734-1824), American patriot spy

Portrait: John Singleton Copley

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), American inventor and politician

Portrait: Joseph Siffred Duplessis

JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH (1735-1782), German composer

Portrait: Thomas Gainsborough

GEORGE III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain

Portrait: Allan Ramsay

GEORGE VI (1895-1952), King of the United Kingdom

Portrait: Meredith Frampton

JIMMY CARTER (1924), President of the United States

Portrait: Jamie Wyeth

ELIZABETH I (1533-1603), Queen of England

Portrait: unknown artist

GREGORIO XIII (1502-1585), Pope

Portrait: Lavinia Fontana

JOHN ADAMS (1735-1826), President of the United States

Portrait: John Trumbull

REMBRANDT (1606-1669), Dutch painter

Portrait: Govert Teunisz Flinck

EDOUARD MANET (1832-1883), French painter

Portrait: Henri Fantin-Latour

Madame RECAMIER (1777-1849), French socialite

Portrait: Jacques-Louis David

PETER I the Great (1672-1725), Emperor of Russia

Portrait: Paul Delaroche

LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895), French chemist

Portrait: Albert Edelfelt

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-1968), American writer

Portrait: James Fitzgerald

HENRY IV the Pious (1473-1541), Duke of Saxony

Portrait: Lucas Cranach the Elder

MAXIMILIAN I (1459-1519), Emperor of Holy Roman Empire

Portrait: Albrecht Durer

VITTORIO ALFIERI (1749-1803), Italian writer

Portrait: François-Xavier Fabré

ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885), President of the United States

Portrait: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze