Portia

The subject was once thought to be the character of this name from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. However, the classical dress and hairstyle suggest that it depicts another Portia, the wife of Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Over het schilderij

Gegevens

In dezelfde zaal · Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum

Over hetzelfde thema · Vrouw

Ja, het ontvangt bezoek

Wat het toont

In de catalogus

Bronnen

My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman

Autolycus

Florizel and Perdita

Queen Victoria in Her Coronation Robes

Sancho Panza

Dulcinea del Toboso

A Garden Scene

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Florence Dombey in Captain Cuttle's Parlour, 1888

Sweet Summer Time, 1869

Sketch for 'The Derby Day', 1858

The Lake of Lucerne: Mont Pilatus in the Distance, 1857

Fishing, 1855

The Good Harvest of 1854, 1854

Blackheath Park, 1852

Mountain Landscape with Rocks, ca. 1851

Madame Roulin and Her Baby, 1888

Terras in Sainte-Adresse, 1867

Condesa de Altamira and Her Daughter, María Agustina, 1787–88

Two Women on the Shore, 1898

Vrouw met waterkan, ca. 1662

Meisjeskopje, ca. 1665–67

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891

Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678), ca. 1635