His Imperial Majesty Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
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Kronprinzessin Mary: Neue Fotos zum 50. Geburtstag zeigen sie wie eine Königin. So majestätisch zeigt sich die Dänin auf den Bildern.
Portrait of Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov by Franz Kruger - Paintings from Hermitage Museum
Alfonso XIII - Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena - King of Spain, 1927. Queen Victoria Eugenie, née Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenburg, 1926. De László, that incredibly prolific Hugarian, painted nearly all the crowned heads of Europe in his day. And the Spanish Royal Family certainly got more "coverage" than most. He painted King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenie on several occasions, as well as the King's mother and the couple's six children. Though this royal "family unit" was often an unhappy and even tragic one - read much of their story here, in a previous post about the Queen - they are all glamorous and self-assured in these portraits, their troubles varnished over, invisible beneath de László's glorious brushwork. Queen Victoria Eugenie, 1910. Alfonso XIII, 1910. Queen Victoria Eugenie, 1912. Dowager Queen María Cristina, née Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria, mother of the King, 1910. Queen Victoria Eugenie, 1920. Alfonso XIII, 1927. Queen Victoria Eugenie, 1927. Queen Victoria Eugenie, 1927. (Sketch for the above portrait.) Alfonso, Príncipe de Asturias - Don Alfonso Pío Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio de Borbón y Battenberg - at twenty, 1927. Alfonso, Príncipe de Asturias, 1927. Infante Jaime, Duque de Segovia, later duc d'Anjou - Don Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón y Battenberg - at nineteen, 1927. Infanta Beatriz - Doña Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa de Borbón y Battenberg - later Principessa di Civitella-Cesi, at eighteen, 1927. Another portrait of Infanta Beatriz, 1927. Infanta María Cristina - Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg - later Contessa Marone, at sixteen, 1927. Infante Juan, Conde de Barcelona - Don Juan Carlos Teresa Silverio Alfonso de Borbón y Battenberg - at fourteen, 1927. Infante Gonzalo - Don Gonzalo Manuel María Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio de Borbón y Battenberg - at thirteen, 1927. *** I spend a ridiculous amount of time gathering and prepping images for this blog. Early on, I wasn't quite so fastidious. But I quickly became more and more obsessive about the size and quality of the images; I am a visual artist after all. So I hunt and hunt, comparing the different versions of the same painting or photograph that are to be found - uncovered; it's often real detective work! - to try and get the fullest image - so many one finds are cropped - in the largest size and the best quality. And then I spend a lot of time with any necessary Photoshopping, sizing the images and cleaning them up, adjusting the color and sharpness, trying to get the very best version I can; I know how often my own paintings have been badly reproduced so, honestly, I feel a lot of responsibility to the artists whose work I'm presenting. I see a lot of odd things out there on the internet; the various and varied filters of reproduction often do crazy things to a work of art. I thought the portrait of Infante Jaime was a particularly perverse example of this. I was lucky to find the two following images - fairly large, clear, and detailed - and then realized that they were actually the same portrait. I've examined them very, very closely, and they are the same painting; there's no way that anyone could have copied every brushstroke so exactly. And it's also clear to me that the first one is a color reproduction, not a black and white photograph of the painting tinted with color. So how is it even possible that these two are so different - and where did the red go? If I hadn't seen the second image, I'd have thought the uniform jacket was grey. The obvious defect in the second image was that the background had been so darkened that all the detail there was lost; the cast shadow behind the figure is indiscernible and the signature almost so. Neither version was really acceptable, so I melded the two images together. I hope this is something much more like what the great de László produced; for accuracy's sake, and because it's a wonderful painting. THIS PLUS THIS EQUALS THIS
Hi, my name is Mario Unger, I'm a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year my main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. In this post I show some of my favorites.
Gustav Oskar Björck 1860-1929 Zweden
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, future Duke of Windsor
Carol I, King of Romania (1839-1914) portrait by George P. A. Healey, American artist In 1874 the Paris-educated American artist Painter George Healey made several portraits of the Romanian Princely family of Hohenzollern - Princess Elsabeth of Wied (Carmen Sylva), Princess Consort of Carol I of Hohenzollern with her daughter and that of Prince Carol himself (seen above). Both of these portraits are in the collection of the National History Museum of Bucharest. Prince Carol I (later to become King Carol I of Romania) was of German and French lineage, with both paternal and maternal grandmothers being French, namely Antoinette Murat and Stephanie de Beauharnais respectively, which made him a relation of emperor Napoleon III. Educated at the Military Academy in Potsdam, upon hearing that young man was elected ruling Prince of the Romanian Principalities, in 1866, Chancellor Bismarck is reputed to have exclaimed; "Not a bad promotion for a Prussian officer". -He proved to be a great reforming statesman who pulled Romania from being a backward Ottoman province (up to its Independence in 1878) to becoming a modern European state, with a huge economic growth based on oil, agriculture, trade and rich mineral resources. This position made it possible for King Carol I to secure a commensurately appropriate marriage alliance for his heir to the throne Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern who married Marie of Edinburgh, Princess of Great Britain. Carol I was less successful in arranging the marriage of prince Carol of Romania (Marie and Ferdinand's son) to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, daughter of Tzar Nicholas Ii who perished with his family during the Bolshevik revolution. The SITTER (source Wikipedia): Carol I of Romania[1], original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern (April 20th, 1839 - 10 October [O.S. 27 September] 1914), German prince, was elected Domnitor (Prince) of Romania on April 20th, 1866, following the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and proclaimed king on March 26th 1881, with the acquiescence of the Porte and the Turkish Sultan whose armies were defeated in Roumania's 1877 Independence War with the Ottoman Empire by the Roumanian-Russian army under the command of Prince Charles I. He was, then, the first ruler of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty which would rule the country until the imposition of a Stalin-directed republic, dictated at gun point in a coup d'etat devised by Dr. Petru Groza whose government was backed up by the Soviet armies of occupation in 1947; this forced abdication (and later exile) of King Michael I of Roumania by his former Soviet allies occurred shortly after the soviet dictator Joseph (Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) Stalin bestowed the Soviet Order of Victory upon King Michael I for his central role in the overturn of the Germans in Roumania in late August 1944. The ARTIST (source Wikipedia): George Peter Alexander Healy (July 15, 1813 - June 24, 1894), American painter, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Going to Europe in 1835 Healy studied under Baron Gros in Paris and in Rome. He received a third-class medal in Paris in 1840, and one of the second class in 1855, when he exhibited his "Franklin urging the claims of the American Colonies before Louis XVI." Among his portraits of eminent men are those of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Guyot, Seward, Louis Philippe, and the presidents of the United States from J. Q. Adams to Grant--this series being painted for the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.. His large group, Webster replying to Hayne, containing 180 portraits, is in Faneuil Hall, Boston, Mass. He was one of the most prolific and popular painters of his day. He died in Chicago, Illinois, on the 24th of June 1894.
