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2013 Event - Artist Paul Emsley unveils the first official portrait of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge

2012 Event - A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house

1994 Death - Theo Swagemakers, portrait painter, dies at 95

1991 Death - Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82

1990 Event - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million

1989 Event - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" auctioned for $825M

1985 Death - Robert Nathan, U.S. writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91

1947 Birthday - Daphne Todd, president, Royal Society of Portrait Painters

1944 Death - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies

1939 Event - Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres

1939 Birthday - David Griffiths, portrait painter

1934 Birthday - Duncan Thompson, keeper, Scottish National Portrait Gallery

1930 Birthday - Vic Tayback, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Mel-Alice, Khan, Portrait of a Stripper

1925 Death - John Singer Sargent, U.S. portrait painter, dies at 69

1917 Birthday - Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,

1917 Birthday - Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,

1916 Birthday - Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter

1911 Birthday - Juliet Pannett, English portrait painter

1908 Birthday - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer, Life Magazine

1904 Birthday - Peter Hurd, Roswell, New Mexico, painter, Portrait of Jose Herrera

1900 Birthday - Sarah Miriam Peale, U.S., portrait painter, General Lafayette-1825

1898 Birthday - Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter

1894 Birthday - Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie

1887 Death - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66

1856 Birthday - John Singer Sargent, U.S., portrait painter, Wyndham Sisters

1855 Birthday - Olive Schreiner, South African writer, Portrait of a South African Woman

1849 Death - Dolley Madison, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins, died at age 81 in Washington, D.C.

1839 Death - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter, dies at 68

1837 Death - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter

1821 Birthday - Linus Yale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, Yale cylinder lock

1820 Birthday - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, Jahresringe

1809 Death - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43

1792 Death - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter, dies at 82

1792 Death - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68

1783 Birthday - Thomas Sully, U.S. portrait painter, Queen Victoria

1778 Birthday - Rembrandt Peale, portrait/historical painter, Court of Death

1772 Death - John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84

1771 Birthday - French Jozef Kinsoen, Flemish portrait painter

1768 Birthday - Dolley Madison, born in New Garden, North Carolina, wife of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison, First Lady of the United States, 1809 - 1817, acted as First Lady for Thomas Jefferson, portrait appears on United States Mint 1/2 ounce $10 gold coins

1759 Death - Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67

1758 Birthday - John Hoppner, portrait painter

1755 Birthday - Gilbert Stuart, U.S., portrait painter, painted Washington

1741 Birthday - Charles Willson Peale, U.S., portrait painter and inventor, George Washington

1729 Death - Arnold Boonen, portrait painter, dies at 60

1723 Birthday - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter, Simplicity

1719 Birthday - Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter

1702 Death - John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69

1697 Birthday - Cornelis Consolation, Dutch portrait painter, Unseemly Love

1691 Birthday - Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist

1688 Birthday - Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Dutch portrait painter

1685 Birthday - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter

1684 Death - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48

1669 Birthday - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter

1666 Death - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86

1662 Death - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64

1659 Birthday - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect

1633 Birthday - Jan de Baen, portrait painter/etcher

1626 Birthday - Marie de Sevigne, Paris, letter-writer, Portrait in Letters

1616 Death - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet, buried at 68

1578 Death - Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies

1548 Birthday - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet













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