Thomas Lawrence
(13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830)

Sir Thomas Lawrence  was an English painter who served as the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits.
He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. At his death, he was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has since been partially restored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Lawrence

Madam Isaac Cuthbert
1817 
Oil on canvas
143 x 182 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064316

 Hans Holbein the Younger
(c. 1497 – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) 

Hans Holbein the Younger was a German painter and printmaker active in Switzerland and England. He worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger

Portrait d'Érasme (1467-1536) écrivant
c. 1528 
Oil on wood
43 x 33 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062617

Holbein made several portraits of the great humanist and scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam. His close association with the humanist and scholar is reflected not only in these and other admiring portraits but also in the letters of introduction written on Holbein's behalf by Erasmus to his friends in England when the artist traveled there in 1526. It was through Erasmus that Holbein was commissioned to paint portraits of Sir Thomas More and his family.

 Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
(16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842)

 

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_Vigée_Le_Brun

Madame Vigée Le Brun Holding Her Daughter in Her Arms (Maternal Tenderness)
1786 
Oil on wood
105 x 132 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010063406

 Jacques-Louis David
(30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) 

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Louis_David

Portrait of Madame Récamier
1800 
Oil on canvas
173 × 243 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059215

 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
 (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867)

 

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style. Although he considered himself a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, it is his portraits, both painted and drawn, that are recognized as his greatest legacy. His expressive distortions of form and space made him an important precursor of modern art, influencing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and other modernists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres

 

Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
1805 
Oil on canvas
100 x 122 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059995

 Eugene Delacroix
(26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863)

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix  was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
In contrast to the Neoclassical perfectionism of his chief rival Ingres, Delacroix took for his inspiration the art of Rubens and painters of the Venetian Renaissance, with an attendant emphasis on colour and movement rather than clarity of outline and carefully modelled form. Dramatic and romantic content characterized the central themes of his maturity, and led him not to the classical models of Greek and Roman art, but to travel in North Africa in search of the exotic. Friend and spiritual heir to Théodore Géricault, Delacroix was also inspired by Lord Byron, with whom he shared a strong identification with the "forces of the sublime" of nature in often violent action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Delacroix

Self-portrait with Green Vest
c. 1837 
Oil on canvas
65 x 54.5 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010059698

 Simon Vouet
(9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649)

Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and mythological paintings, portraits, frescoes, tapestries, and massive decorative schemes for the king and for wealthy patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. During this time, "Vouet was indisputably the leading artist in Paris," and was immensely influential in introducing the Italian Baroque style of painting to France. He was also, according to Pierre Rosenberg, "without doubt one of the outstanding seventeenth-century draughtsmen, equal to Annibale Carracci and Lanfranco."
A major international exhibition of Vouet's work is planned for 2027, co-organized by the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris and the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Vouet

Portrait of Giovan Carlo Doria
1621 
Oil on canvas
129 x 95 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl01006310