#baroque portrait

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Princess Maria Josepha Hermengilde Esterházy as a child (1776) by August Friedrich Oelenhainz. Liechtenstein Museum.

[pompeianred]

Gerrit Van Honthorst by Gerard van Honthorst (1592 - 1656)

[royalty-nobility]

James, Duke of York, 1633-1701

Artist: Henri Gascar (French, c. 1635-1701)

Date: 1672-1673

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

James II of England

James II and VII (1633 – 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from February 1685 until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his reign is remembered primarily for conflicts over religion. However, it also involved struggles over the principles of absolutism and divine right of kings, with his deposition ending a century of political and civil strife by confirming the primacy of the English Parliament over the Crown.

[somethingwithmoles]

Michaelina Wautier (1604-1689), Portrait of a Commander in the Spanish Army, 1646, oil on canvas, 63 x 56.5 cm, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Source: Wikimedia Commons | Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

[thebeautiesofthepast]

Mary Beale

A Self Portrait by Mary Beale, baroque, circa 1666

Mary Beale, née Cradock, (bapt. 26.03.1633 - bur. 08.10.1699) was the daughter of the rector John Cradock and his wife, Dorothy Brunton. Her mother died when she was ten years old. Not a lot is known about her youth other than her having gotten a new guardian during the Civil War.

When she was eighteen years old, she married Charles Beale. He helped her a great deal during her time as a painter, such as being her studio manager, pigment mixer. They were described as working mostly equally. She had three sons, of which two survived.

Taking great care to build up a respectable reputation was her sensible choice of portrait sitters. Clergymen, various members of the nobility and even Queen Henrietta Maria wished to be painted by her.

Mary died at the age of sixty-five. She was buried in St James' Church in Picadilly, where her tomb was destroyed in the Blitz of the Second World War.

[lilythulart]

Portrait of Nebbia (commission)

Because she’s a princess.

[chris-silver]

‘Baroque Portrait’ by Chris Silver, oil on canvas 2017

[ars-videndi]

Pieter de Grebber (Dutch, Haarlem, circa 1600–1652/53) - Portrait of a Youth, mid 17th century, oil on panel, 79 x 62 cm, Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna