Adelia Armstrong Lutz. Self portrait 1929

See also

“La Lecture” by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1877

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) 

Tourists view the city of Montreal from the lookout on Mount Royal, Quebec, June 1950

Margaret Neilson Armstrong, Lilac Clematis, Atragene occidentalis, 1909 (source).

Charmian Carr in Salzburg.

Grace Kelly on the set of The Swan, 1956

Lana Turner pins a boutonnière to the coat of her husband, Artie Shaw, after eloping on their first date, 1940

Mr Basil Gill and Miss Nora Kerin

Oil on canvas, exhibited 1909

Sepia-toned platinotype on photographer’s card mount, 1920s

Radclyffe Hall

Probably my favourite picture we saw at the National Portrait Gallery today.

Miss Edna May

(via It’s crooning time…)