Anastasia Iosifovna Ushakova, circa 1866. Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (23 March 1822, Arzamas - 9 April 1897, Saint Petersburg), Russian portrait painter. Born the son of Kuzma Alexandrovich Makarov, a serf artist of the Penza landowner Gorikhvostov, who had received his freedom in 1815. After completing his general education, from 1834 to 1841 the younger Makarov studied with his father at the Arzamas School of Painting, Russia's first provincial art school. On the basis of submissions he sent to…

Marie Duplessis was born in 1824 as Rose Alphonsine Plessis in a poor family she was passed around as a child and only moved to Paris when s...

Richard Buckner 1812-1883 Engeland

1858 Marie of Baden, Princess of Leiningen (1834-1899) by William Corden the Younger (Royal Collection). From Wikimedia.

Matilda of Flanders Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror, and the first woma...

Princess Helena (1846 - 1923) by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1861.

Coronation Portraits of Queens of the United Kingdom from the House of Windsor (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha): Alexandra of Denmark Mary of Teck Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Elizabeth II

Christian Karl August Noack (1822-1905) executed more than one thousand portraits throughout his career, with sitters ranging from a loyal page boy (RCIN 403652) to royal patrons. Having studied at the Dusseldorf and Antwerp Academies, Noack travelled throughout France, Italy and the Netherlands producing a plethora of portraits in addition to landscapes, biblical and historical subjects. Noack eventually returned to Darmstadt where he became court painter to the Duchy of Hesse and professor…

The newborn Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge’s 3Xgreat-grandfather was King George V: King George V was born as the second son of King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales) and gre…