A NICE SELECTION

Portraits

Selected paintings from the NICE image archive

Look closely at faces, gestures, and the ways artists portray themselves and others. This selection brings together formal portraits and more intimate studies.

15 artworks available on NICE

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Vincent van Gogh

Self-Portrait

1887

Rembrandt van Rijn

Old Man with a Gold Chain

1631

Gustave Courbet

Rêverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau)

1862

Édouard Manet

Portrait of a Woman with a Black Fichu

c. 1878

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Portrait of Mme Lisle and Mme Loubens

c. 1867

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)

1879

Sir Thomas Lawrence

Isabella Wolff

1803–15

James McNeill Whistler

Arrangement in Flesh Color and Brown: Portrait of Arthur Jerome Eddy

1894

Rogier van der Weyden

Portrait of Jean Gros (recto); Coat of Arms of Jean Gros (verso)

1460–64

Thomas Eakins

Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

1899

John Smibert

Richard Bill

1733

Ammi Phillips

Cornelius Allerton

1821–22

John Singleton Copley

Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)

c. 1764

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Portrait of a Man in Costume

c. 1767–68

Quentin Massys

Portrait of a Man with a Pink

1500–10

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