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…

View Portrait of a couple (1886) By Cabane Édouard; Original canvas; 70 x 50 cm; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Portrait by Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1927. During her time, Queen Mary - the consort of George V, grandmother of the present queen - oversaw a great wealth of jewelry being added to the already brimming royal coffers of the United Kingdom. Both in the collection of "crown jewels", and those held in private possession of the Windsor ladies. Many pieces were new-made, other were redesigns of earlier pieces. And she also purchased important pieces from those royals who had not fared so well…

In them we can trace the history of love—Nicholas and Alexandra as betrothed, then as husband and wife, and then with their firstborn child. Finally we see them all—as we see them depicted on icons.

Sir John Lavery 1856-1941 Ierland

Portrait by Édouard-Henri-Théophile Pingret, 1836; the brothers were fifteen in that year. Chang and Eng, the first "Siamese twins", are historical figures along the line of Napoléon or Cleopatra, Leonardo da Vinci or Joan of Arc; we know what they're famous for, even if we don't always know much more than that. I didn't want to go into their whole story - you can certainly read about them here, if you like - but I did want to share these few portraits of the brothers. Mainly because I was…

Lorena Teruel

An exclusive first-look at the new book, 'Awkward Family Photos'