Old World Portraits
Miss Mathilde Townsend
John Singer Sargent
An elegant 1907 portrait by John Singer Sargent featuring Mathilde Townsend in a diaphanous white dress.
Old World Portraits
Scholarly portraits and old-world figures with gravity.
Richly dressed sitters, formal poses, and darker palettes give these portraits their stately, old-world presence.
Old World Portraits
The Duchess of Chaulnes as Hebe
Jean-Marc Nattier
A luminous 18th-century Rococo portrait depicting the Duchess of Chaulnes in the mythological guise of Hebe, the goddess of youth.
Old World Portraits
Sir Walter Scott
William Allan
This dignified 19th-century portrait captures the novelist Sir Walter Scott amidst the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands.
Old World Portraits
David Garrick and His Wife by the Temple to Shakespeare at Hampton
Johann Zoffany
An elegant 18th-century conversation piece featuring David Garrick and his wife by their riverside temple.
Old World Portraits
Robert Gwillym of Atherton and William Farington of Werden
Arthur Devis
An elegant 18th-century English conversation piece featuring two gentlemen in a dramatic, scenic landscape.