This document provides an overview of portraiture through history by highlighting important portraits and portrait artists. It begins with some of the earliest known portrait photographs from the 1830s-40s and includes portraits from ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and modern artists like Warhol, Kahlo, and Wiley. The document exposes the reader to the rich history of portraiture through significant examples from different time periods and cultures.

1. Portraiture
Harry Swartz-Turfle
Bennett College

2. First portrait photograph
• Robert Cornelius, a
Philadelphia chemist
• 1839
• “The first light Picture
ever taken. 1839.”

3. Sojourner Truth
• Carte de visite (seated), 1864.
Gladstone Collection,Prints and
Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-
USZC4-6165 (3-11b)

4. Fayum portrait
• Egyptian funerary
portrait
• Roman period, 140-
160 AD

5. Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait at the Age
of Thirteen, 1484

6. Titian
• Portrait of Pietro
Aretino. c. 1548

7. Rembrandt van Rijn, Self Portrait, 1658

8. Hans Holbein
• Portrait of Sir Thomas
More, 1527

9. Chinese ancestor portrait
• Portrait of Prince
Hongming (1705—
1767)

10. Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait
with Necklace, 1906

11. Frida Kahlo, Self-portrait with
Monkeys, 1938

12. Aaron Douglas, Self Portrait, 1954

13. Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1967

14. Chuck Close, Big Self-Portrait, 1968

15. Barkley Hendricks, Slick (Self-
Portrait), 1977

16. Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still No.
10. 1978

17. Warning

18. Nan Goldin, Nan One Month After
Being Battered, 1984

19. Renee Cox, The Liberation of Lady J
and U.B. 1998

20. Anna Fox, Super Snacks, 2000-2003

21. Shepard Fairey, Hope, 2008

22. Anthonis van Dyck, Triple Portrait of
King Charles I, 1635-1636

23. Kehinde Wiley, Triple Portrait of
Charles I, 2007

24. Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of
Mnonja, 2010