it is a blessing to use them.

[history-of-fashion]

1883 Guillermo Collazo - Portrait of Carmen Bacallao de Marpica

(National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba)

[history-of-fashion]

1877 Will Hicok Low - Marie-Emma Lajeunesse, Madame Albani

(Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec)

[thefugitivesaint]

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), ‘Chance’, “The Studio”, Vol. 24, 1901 Source

[flowerytale]

Rum Row (1922), by Frederick Judd Waugh

[spirit-of-art]

Gabriel Schachinger (1850–1912), The Forget-me-not (Das Vergissmeinnicht), 1886

[peaceinthestorm]

Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931, American) ~ The Visit (The Fenway Studio), 1915

[Source: Christie's]

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of Lady Sunderland, (details), (1786), by Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 – 1792), oil on canvas, 238.5 cm (93.8 in) x 147.5 cm (58 in), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

[laclefdescoeurs]

The Valkyrie, Hans Makart

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1623-1625 Anthony van Dyck - A Genoese Lady with Her Child

(Cleveland Museum of Art)

[avalonsbeauty-deactivated201702]

by Julek Heller

Merlin, Guinevere and Arthur 

[ars-polonia]

Henryk Siemiradzki, Dirce Chrześcijańska, fragment (Christian Dirce. [fragment])

1897, oil on canvas

[granstromjulius]

Frederic Leighton

[7pleiades7]

Lesbia and her Sparrow, (detail), (1907), by Sir Edward John Poynter (1836 – 1919), oil on canvas, 49 cm (19.2 in) x 37 cm (14.5 in), Private Collection

[laclefdescoeurs]

Peacock, Archibald Thorburn

[medievalpoc]

Claudio Francesco Beaumont

One of Four Overdoor Panels: Allegory of Africa

Italy (c. 1730)

Oil on Canvas, 78 x 105 cm.

Torino, Palazzo Reale.

The Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Goethe's Faust by Harry Clarke (1927)

[eirene]

Mrs Luke Ionides, 1882

William Blake Richmond

Victoria and Albert Museum, London