“The Roses of Heliogabalus” (detail) (1888) by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).
“Anna Maria Ferri, the Artist’s First Wife” (1790-1792) (detail) by Robert Fagan (c. 1745-1816).
“Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldergrave, later H.R.H Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh” (1765) (detail) by Francis Cotes (1726-1770).
“Portrait of Lady Almeria Carpenter, Three-Qurter Length, in a White Dress with a Chiffon Shawl, in a Landscape” (c. 1780) (detail) by Richard Cosway (1742-1821).
“Walter Winans on the Running Deer Range, Wimbledon Common” (1888) (detail) by Thomas Blinks (1853-1910).
“Mrs. Daniel Sargent (Mary Turner)” (1763) (detail) by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815).
“Mrs. Charles Morey (Anna Chadbourne, later Mrs. David E. Hughes)” (1855) (detail) by George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894).
“Portrait of Celia Tobin Clark” (detail) by Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931).
Evening dress, 1920′s
From Whitaker Auctions
“Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne” (1710) (detail) by Pierre Gobert (1662-1744).
“Maria Ricci, Countess Walewska” (1859) (detail) by Edouard Louis Dubufe (1819-1883).
“Blanche Marion Kay-Shuttleworth” (1876) (detail) by Michele Gordigiani (1835-1909).
“Portrait of Mrs Ernest Moon” (1888) (detail) by Sir William Blake Richmond (1842-1921).
“Princess Mary, Daughter of Charles I” (c. 1637) (detail) by Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641).
“Portrait of a Lady with Richly Decorated Headdress and Roses in Her Hair” (detail) by Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1897).
“Portrait of Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Queen Consort of Spain” (1830) (detail) by Vicente López y Portaña (1772-1850).