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2 more poses composed by self portraitist Priscilla_v_z unique comique of her physique. highly recommended muse by this lowbrow Lowrie. PaperStage production appreciates all who felt drawn to my fever dream journal that aspires to a life beyond normal through sketchibitionism
October 3, 2026 at 7:09 AM
foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social
Naomi Johnson models a Dobbs hat for a photo by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1929. When he wasn’t taking revealing “undraped” photos of Ziegfeld Follies performers, Johnston was also a commercial portraitist for a variety of advertisers. (Fashion Friday Thread)
October 2, 2026 at 7:07 PM
open-art.bsky.social
Peter Lely was a Dutch-born painter who spent almost his entire career in England, becoming the leading portraitist at the court of Charles II.
October 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
michaelwarburton.bsky.social
77 Candles 🎂 today for the legendary portraitist — ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
October 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Vigèe Le Brun
Paris portraitist par excellence.
October 2, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Vigèe Le Brun
Paris portraitist par excellence.
October 2, 2026 at 7:28 AM
mauritshuismus.bsky.social
Portrait of Peeter Stevens (c.1590-1668) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_239.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
In 1627, the Antwerp cloth merchant Peeter Stevens had his portrait painted by Anthony van Dyck. When Stevens got married a year later, he commissioned Van Dyck to paint his wife Anna as well. Anna was placed on the left, so that Stevens did not have his back turned to her. But actually convention dictated that the man should hang on the left and the woman on the right. After Rubens, Van Dyck was the most important portraitist of his day. He was popular because he made his patrons look just a bit more beautiful and elegant than they really were.
October 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
coughlinbrett.bsky.social
Photograph of legendary American silent film actress Louise Brooks in 1928 by Paramount Pictures studio photographer Eugene Robert Richee. The photo is an iconic defining image of the Jazz Age.

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• Subject: Louise Brooks, the legendary American silent film actress, dancer, and flapper icon known for her signature jet-black razor-sharp bob haircut. • Photographer: Eugene Robert Richee, a master Hollywood portraitist who captured Paramount’s biggest stars during the 1920s and 1930s. • Composition: A striking black-and-white profile shot featuring Brooks in a black dress against a solid black background. • Technique: Richee used large 8x10 cameras and masterful negative retouching that allowed parts of her dark dress and hair to blend seamlessly into the black negative space, leaving her face and a long string of pearls dramatically illuminated.
October 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Portrait of Aletta Hanemans (1606-1653) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_460.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Aletta Hanemans was 19 when she got married and had this portrait painted by Frans Hals. The portrait of the bridegroom – Jacob Olycan – is hanging on the left. Hals was an expert in the art of characterisation, and was regarded as the best portraitist in Haarlem. Hals is famous for his free, broad brushstrokes. But here his painting is finer, for example in the ‘bridal stomacher’ embroidered in gold. For this portrait commission, Hals may have had less freedom, having to focus more on achieving a good likeness.
September 30, 2026 at 4:31 PM
mauritshuismus.bsky.social
Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021672/resource_document_mauritshuis_585.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=j4AoMQNzp
Michiel de Ruyter, Admiral of the Dutch Fleet, won a glorious battle against the English in the Four Days’ Battle of 1666. To commemorate this victory, he had his portrait painted by the Amsterdam portraitist Bol. In the background is a seascape with De Ruyter’s flagship. The portrait is still in its original seventeenth-century frame. It is a gilded trophy frame boasting a wonderful collection of weaponry: drums, flags, cannons and powder kegs. De Ruyter’s coat of arms is displayed in the top centre.
September 29, 2026 at 6:24 PM
miapaintings.bsky.social
Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1226/
Portrait. As court painter to both Charles III and Charles IV of Spain, Goya achieved considerable fame as a portraitist. Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta, the last of his many self-portraits, was executed late in his life. In 1819, Goya had fallen seriously ill and his doctor, Eugenio Garc’a Arrieta, nursed him back to health. On recovering, he presented Arrieta with this painting which shows the physician ministering to his patient. The words at the bottom read in translation, Goya gives thanks to his friend Arrieta for the expert care with which he saved his life from an acute and dangerous illness which he suffered at the close of the year 1819 when he was seventy-three years old. He painted it in 1820. This inscription gives the canvas the look of an ex-voto, a type of religious painting still popular in Spain, which expresses gratitude for deliverance from a calamity.
September 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
sleepytimetbear.bsky.social
I love that even depicted by the ‘in his day most fashionable portraitist in Rome’ Caravaggio looks like he wants to fight (bcuz he does)
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d
Simply Caravaggio. A more normal portrayal drawn by Ottavio Leoni in 1621. It's Caravaggio's birthday.
September 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
orphanim.bsky.social
specifically there is a lot of beautiful depictions of women, often playing instruments, like this one of a woman playing a tar(yes, etymologically related to what we know as a guitar. "tar" meaning "string" in Persian) that may be the earliest i remember and had stuck in my memory.
A LADY PLAYING A STRINGED INSTRUMENT QAJAR IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY Oil on canvas, some restoration 50¼ x 40 1/8in. (127.5 x 102cm.) With their small pursed lips, long noses and elaborate costumes the figures in this painting bear some resemblance to the work of Muhammad Hassan, an accomplished portraitist active during the reign of Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar (1798-1834). A painting by Muhammad Hassan sold at Sotheby’s, London, 27 April 1994, lot 107. Two other works by the artist, depicting princes, are in the Amery Collection, now in the Negaristan Museum, Tehran (S.J. Falk, Qajar Paintings, London, 1972, nos.26 and 27).
September 29, 2026 at 3:16 AM
nrgsrhc.bsky.social
"Fashion was central to John Singer Sargent's achievements as a portraitist", declares the opening wall text. No it wasn't.
September 28, 2026 at 2:39 PM
theage.nzcow.com
📢 Like Pol Pot’s portraitist, the big man’s scribe is on shaky ground.
Pretty lies for an audience of one: life as a biographer for hire
www.theage.com.au
September 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
aussienews.bsky.social
Like Pol Pot’s portraitist, the big man’s scribe is on shaky ground. #culture #books
Pretty lies for an audience of one: life as a biographer for hire
Like Pol Pot’s portraitist, the big man’s scribe is on shaky ground. #culture #books
www.theage.com.au
September 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM
smhaustralia.nzcow.com
📢 Like Pol Pot’s portraitist, the big man’s scribe is on shaky ground.
Pretty lies for an audience of one: life as a biographer for hire
www.smh.com.au
September 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
bravethea.bsky.social
Lyse had a portrait commissioned

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Amalthea stands proudly in the Royal Menagerie. She wears a military-style uniform in royal purple. Lyse watches as Amalthea has her portrait made. She clutches her hands to her chest and a blush colors her cheek. The portraitist standing to her right rolls her eyes as she continues her work.
September 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
awfulagent.bsky.social
And we can't forget this PW review of GRACE AND JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER by @jessmeywrites.bsky.social, publishing on 10/13/26! 🔎

"[R]eaders will be rewarded with a satisfying conclusion. Mey proves her chops on her first try."
The Publishers Weekly review for GRACE AND JO HAVE NEVER SOLVED A MURDER by Jess Mey: "In Mey’s affable debut, 30-year-old Grace Anderson leaves her Florida hometown to work as an assistant for renowned portraitist Garrett Baros in Philadelphia. One morning, she finds Garrett’s body slumped over his desk in a pool of his own vomit. The police suspect Garrett was poisoned the night before and clear Grace as a suspect. Shaken, Grace is considering returning to Florida when Garrett’s widow, philanthropist Jo Baros, knocks on her apartment door. Jo doesn’t trust the police will catch her husband’s killer, so she offers Grace a job helping her to solve the murder. What follows is a funny, good-spirited whodunit that races through a string of suspects and undercover operations, as when Grace and Jo pretend to run a cleaning business and offer a complimentary service to local politician Mark King, who wrongfully accused Garrett of having an affair with his wife. Mey tastefully balances the plot’s comedic and serious moments, fleshing out the blossoming friendship between the two women along the way. Though the momentum occasionally flags, readers will be rewarded with a satisfying conclusion. Mey proves her chops on her first try."
September 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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Thomas Hewes Hinckley (1850)
"Disputed Game" oil on canvas ----- [artist biography from the Childs Gallery] ----- American (1813-1896) Thomas Hewes Hinckley was born in Milton, Massachusetts in 1813. In 1829, he went to Philadelphia where he became a merchant's apprentice; while there, he also attended an evening class in drawing at the home of the artist, John Mason. In 1833, he returned to Milton, first finding employment as a sign painter and later as a portraitist. In neither of these areas, however, did Hinckley succeed as he did in the painting of domestic and game animals. Tuckerman placed Hinckley among those animal artists who had "...made familiar and progressive a class of pictures long prized in Holland, France, and England" by "...illustrating some of the most characteristic traits of animated nature, and making apparent their subtle relation to humanity". Hinckley's patrons were frequently wealthy local squires or gentleman farmers who commissioned portraits of favorite dogs or cattle, as well as landscapes highlighted by prize stock. In 1851 he went to Europe to study the work of Sir Edwin Landseer, and two of his hunting paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. Hinckley also admired and was influenced by the work of the 17th Dutch painter, Albrecht Cuyp (1620-1691). In his notebook entries for 1860 he describes one painting, "Waiting for the Milkmaid", as "Group of Cows a la Cuyp, but better." The appeal of Hinckley's work to hunters and gentleman farmers meant that they sold without difficulty and without the need to be exhibited.
September 24, 2026 at 1:40 PM
open-art.bsky.social
William Beechey was appointed a royal portraitist by King George III.
September 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
open-art.bsky.social
Beechey was a British portraitist active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He painted many notable figures of his time.
September 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
gayfineart.bsky.social
List was also an accomplished portraitist, photographing figures such as Pablo Picasso and Marlene Dietrich. Surprisingly, photography wasn’t his original profession. He worked in his family’s coffee business and was largely self-taught as a photographer before becoming a celebrated artist.
September 23, 2026 at 12:00 AM
open-art.bsky.social
Gilbert Stuart worked primarily as a portraitist. He painted notable figures, including multiple U.S. presidents.
September 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM
messyepicure.bsky.social
Althea McMurty, portraitist (specializes in Edwardian-style pet portraits)
September 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM