Portrait Paintings

The actress Margaret (Maggie) Liddell Linck was a suffragette. She joined the militant Women’s Social and Political Union in February 1907 and was arrested during a demonstration at the House of Commons. Linck refused to pay the fine imposed on her and was sentenced to two weeks in prison. She subsequently joined the non-violent Women’s Freedom League and served as the treasurer of its Scottish council. In 1897 she married the photographer, actor and playwright Graham Moffat. Moffat was also an advocate of the equal rights of women. He formed the Glasgow Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage for ‘the husbands and brothers of active suffragettes and their male sympathizers.’ The green and purple colours associated with the suffrage movement are present in the portrait.

Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

Catherine-Rosalie Gérard Duthé (1748–1830) was a famous French courtesan and Paris Opera dancer. Known for her striking blonde hair and wealthy royal lovers, historical anecdotes credit her as the first officially recorded "dumb blonde" due to her habit of long, thoughtful pauses before speaking.

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Collection: National Trust Collections, London, United Kingdom

Collection: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Collection: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, United States

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Clifton Wheeler was an American Impressionist artist from Hadley, Indiana. Wheeler was known for having been a participant in the City Hospital mural project, and having been a member of the Hoosier Group and the Irvington Group. Wheeler was a private pupil of William Forsyth, and was also known for having contributed to Indianapolis’ public art scene multiple times throughout his career as an artist.

Laurits Andersen Ring was 41 when he became engaged to Sigrid Kähler in 1895. She was 21, and the two were married the following summer. Being with Sigrid opened up new worlds for Ring. His melancholic periods became longer. In the painting's tribute to life and love, it is as if the painter is consciously trying to tame his sense of happiness.

Through her relationships with Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, Kahlo was intimately familiar with Mexican mural painting and its grand ambitions, but she chose to follow a different artistic path. Her paintings form an organic and realist alternative to the austerity of Modernism and the more detached, dreamlike quality of Surrealism. Although she was called a Surrealist by André Breton, Kahlo culled her imagery from her own reality, a strategy that separated her paintings from those of the Surrealists. In an interview she once proclaimed, "They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

About the Artist: Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux (1768 – 1826), was a French neoclassical , historical , and genre painter .

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Princess Maria Grigoryevna Raevskaya (née Gagarina; 1851–1941) – daughter of Grigory Grigoryevich Gagarin and Sofia Andreyevna, née Dashkova, wife of Mikhail Nikolaevich Raevsky (1841–1893); maid of honor at the Imperial Court (1869), dame of the Order of Catherine.