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Self-Portrait, 1880-1885

by Cecilia Beaux

1880-1885
Oil on canvas
45.72 cm (18 in.), Width: 35.56 cm (14 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Beaux, Cecilia 
Sir Edmund Gosse

by John Singer Sargent

1886
Oil on canvas
54.6 x 44.5 cm (21 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Sargent, John Singernotes
Sir Edmund Gosse, knighted much later in life (1849-1928), Poet and writer; son of Philip Henry Gosse. He was born Sept. 21, 1849, London, Eng. and died May 16, 1928, London.  He was an English translator, literary historian, and critic who introduced the work of Henrik Ibsen and other continental European writers to English readers.  Gosse...
Sir Francis Buller

by Mather Brown

1792
oil on canvas
49 1/4 in. x 39 in. (1251 mm x 991 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Brown, Mather 
Sir Henry William Lucy

by John Singer Sargent

1905
Oil on canvas
28 1/2 in. x 21 in. (724 mm x 533 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Sargent, John Singer 
Sir John Everett Millais

by Charles Robert Leslie

1852
oil on panel
12 in. x 9 7/8 in. (306 mm x 252 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Leslie, Charles Robert 
Stephen Olin

by William Edward West

oil on canvas on Masonite
91.5cm x 71.1cm (36" x 28")

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

West, William Edward 
Viscountess Astor

by John Singer Sargent

1923
Chalk
55.9 x 38.1 cm (22 x 15 in.)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Sargent, John Singer 
Walter Savage Landor

by William Mark Fisher

1839
oil on canvas
35 1/4 in. x 27 1/2 in. (895 mm x 699 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Fisher, William Mark 
William Bulwer, Baron Dalling And Bulwer

by Joseph Fagnani

1865
oil on canvas
30 in. x 25 in. (762 mm x 635 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Fagnani, Josephnotes
Bulwer joined the British Army in 1825 and entered the diplomatic service two years later. In 1838, he negotiated the Ponsonby Treaty with Turkey, which secured important advantages for British trade in the Ottoman Empire. He was appointed Ambassador to Spain in 1843 but his sympathies with the cause of Spanish constitutionalism led to his expulsion...
William Cobbett

by George Cooke

circa 1831
oil on canvas
36 in. x 28 in. (914 mm x 711 mm)

National Portrait Gallery

Washington, D.C.

Cooke, Georgenotes
This portrait is said to show Cobbett in the clothes he wore when tried for sedition in 1831. Considered a popular hero after his acquittal, Cobbett was elected to the reformed House of Commons, for the newly created borough of Oldham, in 1832.
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