29 Portraits - Art and the Egyptian Women over the decades

Scota
It is said that Scota was in fact Meritaten, the eldest daughter of Pharoah Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti.

Mummy Portrait of a Woman, from Fayum, Romano-Egyptian, 138-161 AD 

(encaustic wax & amp; paint on wood), . / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA / Bridgeman Images.

John Frederick Lewis RA 

1804-1875

A Veiled Egyptian Girl, Cairo

Watercolour and bodycolour 

15 ½ x 11 ¼ inches; 396 x 285 mm

Drawn in the 1840s

John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804 – 15 August 1876) was an Orientalist English painter. He specialized in Oriental and Mediterranean scenes in exquisitely detailed watercolour or oils. Lewis lived for several years in a traditional mansion in Cairo, and (after his return to England) painted highly detailed works showing both realistic genre scenes of Middle Eastern life and more idealized scenes in upper class Egyptian interiors with no traces of Western cultural influence yet apparent.

His very careful and loving representation of Islamic architecture, furnishings, screens, and costumes set new standards of realism, which influenced other artists, including the leading French Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme in his later works. Unlike many other Orientalist painters who took a salacious interest in the women of the Middle East, he "never painted a nude", and his wife modelled for several of his harem scenes. More

Emile Vernet Lecomte (French 1821-1900) 

A Young Egyptian (Aimee)

Medium: Oil on Canvas 

Size: 51 3/8 x 34 5/8in (130.5x88cm)

Emile Lecomte-Vernet, born Charles Émile Hippolyte Lecomte, is from a family of famous painters. He began by painting portraits of the wealthy bourgeoisie and the aristocracy . It begins at the Paris Salon in 1843 where he received a bronze medal. Very quickly, he developed a taste for orientalism. His first paintings on this theme are exhibited at the Salon of 1847 ( Syrian head and Syrian woman ) and he produced numerous portraits of Oriental women. News of his time did not leave him indifferent either and so he painted pictures with subject the Crimean War (1853-1855) or the massacre of the Maronites by the Druze in Syria in 1860-1861. More

Mose Bianchi (Italian Painter, 1840-1904)  –  Cleopatra

Mosè Bianchi (Monza, 1840–1904) was an Italian painter and printmaker. The award of a grant in 1867 enabled him to visit Venice and then Paris in 1869. He took part with some success at the Brera exhibitions and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. It was in this period that he began to paint genre scenes in 18th-century settings and numerous portraits, soon becoming one of the artists most in demand with the Milanese middle classes. More

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in the role of Cleopatra

Georges Jules Victor Clairin

Egyptian motif jewelry with Turquoise set in Silver for the role, fueling a Revival of Egyptian styled jewelry. 1895

Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu,  2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah Bernhardt, his friend for 50 years, and is today best known for his 'in costume' and informal intimate portratits of her. More

Caesar and Cleopatra

Jean-Léon Gérôme - 1866 

Painting - oil on canvas 

Height: 183 cm (72.05 in.), Width: 129.5 cm (50.98 in.) 

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre includedhistorical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period, and in addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher with a long list of students.More

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child (1869-1870) 

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) 

A French painter

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter. He won a medal of honor in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882. In May 1905 he succeeded Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Julius Kaplan characterised Bonnat as "a liberal teacher who stressed simplicity in art above high academic finish, as well as overall effect rather than detail." Bonnat's emphasis on overall effect on the one hand, and rigorous drawing on the other, put him in a middle position with respect to the Impressionists and academic painters like his friend Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1917, Bonnat was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding member. More

Hans Makart (1840–1884)

An Egyptian Princess 1875

Oil on panel

129 × 84 cm (50.8 × 33.1 in)

Woman In In Egyptian Costume

Hans Makart 

Oil on panel

18 x 12.383

Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator; most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna, attended with almost cult-like adulation. More

Two ladies attired in veils and long robes. 

Engraving

This is a portrait of an upper-class woman in "An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians" written by British orientalist Edward William Lane in 1833. More

Women of Middle Egypt,

 illustration from The Valley of the Nile, 

engraved by Adolphe Mouilleron, 

pub. by Lemercier, 1848

A Egyptian woman in 1860

The New York Public Library. Photography Collection

Emile Vernet-Lecomte, 

Mother and Child before the Pyramids, 1872, 

Oil on canvas, 

130,8 x 88,7 cm,

Emile Lecomte-Vernet, (1714-1789), , is a French orientalist  painter. He began by painting portraits of the wealthy bourgeoisie and the aristocracy . He received a bronze medal at the Paris Salon in 1843. His first orientalist paintings were exhibited at the Salon of 1847 (Syrian woman); this produced produced numerous requests for portraits of Oriental women. News of his time does not leave indifferent either; and so he painted pictures of the Crimean War (1853-1855) and the massacre of the Maronites by the Druze in Syria in 1860-1861.

Rudolph Carl Huber (circle of)

Nude woman sitting on carpet with her back against a wall

Cairo, Egypt, 1875-1876

Carl Rudolf Huber (attributed), 

Gruppenakt to 1875/76, 

Photo Institute Bonartes

Carl Rudolf Huber (15 August 1839 in Schleinz , community Walpersbach , Lower Austria ; 28 August 1896 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter and graphic designer. He studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and Dusseldorf . In 1875 he, together with Leopold Carl Müller , Hans Makart and Franz von Lenbach he travelled to Egypt. From 1880 he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824-1904) 
Jeune fille égyptienne: Egyptian girl 
signed 'J.L.GEROME.' (lower right) 
oil on canvas 
18 3/8 x 15 in. (46.7 x 38.1 cm.) 
Painted circa 1877. 

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre includedhistorical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period, and in addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher with a long list of students.

Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

A fallah woman with her child, 1878

Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann (November 21, 1819 – July 11, 1881, Copenhagen) was a Polish-born Danish painter. She is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. She began exhibiting there and in 1844 attracted public attention for the first time. After she moved to Rome, her paintings were primarily of local life. It was here that she met her future husband, Jens Adolf Jerichau, whom she married in 1846. 

She had great international success, including a special following in France where she was twice represented at the World Fair in Paris, first in 1867 and again in 1878. In 1852 she exhibited some of her paintings in London, and Queen Victoria requested a private presentation in Buckingham Palace.

Between 1869-1875 Elisabeth traveled extensively in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle-East As a woman she was able to gain access to the harems of the Ottoman Empire and painted scenes of harem life from personal observation. She had to curb her desire to paint the women of the harems as Europeans liked to imagine them because they insisted on being painted in the latest Paris fashions. 

In 1869, she was admitted into the harem of Mustafa Fazil Paşa, in Egypt. 

Egyptian Water Carrier c.1882

Jean-Leon Gerome

Gerome, Jean-Leon (Jean-Léon Gérôme) (French 1824-1904) Academic Painter and Sculptor, 

Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre includedhistorical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax. He is considered one of the most important painters from this academic period, and in addition to being a painter, he was also a teacher with a long list of students.More

'Egyptian girl with a butterfly' 

by Leopold Carl Muller, Viennese. 

Oil, 1885

Müller, Leopold Carl 1834-1892. 

"Nefusa", 1885/86. 

Oil on canvas, 

80 x 60 cm.

Leopold Carl Muller, a Viennese artist, was both an excellent painter and a humble man. When his students tried to copy his famous 'Marketplace outside Cairo' he suggested they choose something better to paint.

He made nine trips to Cairo beginning in 1873. This painting was done on his last trip in 1885 and shows a girl playing with a small butterfly which has landed on her dress.

Edwin Long, R.A. (British, 1829-1891) 
Egypt 
signed with the artist's monogram (lower left) 
oil on canvas 
54½ x 36 in. (138.4 x 92.7 cm). 
Painted in 1887. 

Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was an English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter. He was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of E. Long, an artist, and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British Museum. He was subsequently a pupil in the school of James Mathews Leigh in Newman Street London, and practiced first as a portrait artist.

Long spent much time in Spain where he was greatly influenced by the paintings of Velasquez and other Spanish masters, and his earlier pictures, such as 'La Posada' (1864) and 'Lazarilla and the blind beggar' (1870), were painted under Spanish influence. In 1874, he visited Egypt and Syria, and subsequently his work took a new direction. He became thoroughly imbued with middle-eastern archaeology and painted oriental scenes like 'The Egyptian Feast' (1877), 'The Gods and their makers' (1878) etc. More

Charles Landelle 1812-1908

Egyptian Woman

oil on canvas

Charles Landelle 1812-1908

Egyptian woman with oranges 

oil on canvas

Zachary Charles Landelle, born 2 June 1821 in Laval, died 13 December 1908 in Chennevières-sur-Marne), is a genre painter and portraitist French. Employee son of the prefecture Laval , he followed his father to Paris in 1827.

He developed his talent at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was admitted in 1837 as a student of Paul Delaroche and Ary Scheffer . His portraits and large religious paintings were an immediate success. In 1841 he exhibited his first painting, a self-portrait. It was noticed by Louis-Philippe and immediately recognized by critics. Napoleon III greatly admire his work and bought two paintings of Beatitudes (1852) to offer to the city of Laval. In 1855, Emperor decorated him with the Legion of Honor for "Rest of the Virgin" That he acquires personally. It is the dedication and fortune. It is the portrait of high society talented ( Portrait of Alfred de Musset , Palace of Versailles , Portrait of Mounet Sully , Museum of Arts and Children of Fécamp ). The museums, churches ( Saint-Sulpice , Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois ), public buildings, national palaces ( the Elysee ) are adorned with his great compositions. In 1848 , the City of Paris bought his Sainte-Cécile which is kept at the church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs . More

John Collier (1850-1934)
The Pharaoh's Handmaidens
Oil on canvas
1883

The Honourable John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a leading English artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25. More

An Egyptian Woman John Singer Sargent -- American painter  c, 1890-1891 Metropolitan Museum, New York  Oil on canvas
64.8 x 53.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 in.)

Egyptian Woman (also known as Coin Necklace) John Singer Sargent - 1891 Painting - oil on canvas  Height: 64.8 cm (25.51 in.), Width: 50.8 cm (20 in.) John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. More

Eliot Elisofon  Woman in veil, Cairo 1947 Life Magazine Eliot Elisofon (April 17, 1911 - April 7, 1973) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. He is a founding member of the Photo League in 1936. He was one of the most active and productive members; he gave guest lectures (1938–43); co-organized the Men at Work project with Lewis Hine (1940); served periodically as president between 1939 and 1941; taught courses on photojournalism and flash photography (1940–41); and participated in numerous exhibitions. Elisofon’s childhood struggles inspired his mission as a photographer; whether photographing the neighborhood he grew up in, the poor communities in the South, or exploring other countries, the human condition remained central to his work. His humble upbringing drove Elisofon to succeed and to improve the world around him. From his perspective: "art, to be true art, must grow out of human beings and it must help human beings live a better and fuller life. It must extend the field of feeling and vision we are born with.” More

Timothy Joseph Allen Fayum Portrait of Silvia Medium: Oil on Board Size in Centimeters: 20 x 20 Year: 2007

Timothy Joseph Allen is a practicing figurative painter, a web designer and a teacher.  Born in Atlanta, Georgia, raised in Nashville, Tennessee, schooled in Versailles, Kentucky and educated in Greencastle and Bloomington, Indiana, his move to Rome in 1998 was the obvious next step.


He began teaching at AUR in the Fall of 2006 and his range of courses have included Intermediate Drawing, Italian Sketchbook, Web Design and Art of Rome.