Madame Jean-Baptiste Isabey (Jeanne Laurice de Salienne, died 1829)

Ligny. Two women's day dresses by Mme Chérier and Mme Mélanie with bonnets by Mme Bergeret, and a girl's dress by Mme Martin. French, April 1838. Published in La Nouveauté. Two wom...

Carl Fredrik Berghman Born 1759 23/6. Died 1807 28/1 at Helgevärma, Öjaby (G). a master of a hunter. Married and children: Married 1785 30/3 in Karlskrona 1) Johanna Christina Wi...

Like his brother Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Marc Nattier first trained in his family circle. His father was a portrait painter and his mother was familiar with the technique of miniature ...

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the photograph rapidly replaced the painted portrait as the public’s preferred medium for recording an accurate individual likene...