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• Dialoghi tra Claro, e Sarpiri per istruire chi desidera d'essere un eccellente pittore figurista. (Per Ferdinando Pisarri, 1778), by Carlo Antonio 1720- Pisarri and Ferdinando Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polygraphice (Printed for A. and J. Churchill ..., and J. Nicholson ..., 1701), by William Salmon, John Nicholson, Pierre-Jean Fabre, and England) A. and J. Churchill (Booksellers : London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring (Printed by M. White, for John Crumpe, at the Sign of the Three Bibles in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1681), by William Salmon, John Crump, Margaret White, William Vaughan, Frederick Hendrick van Hove, and William Sherwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polygraphice, or, The art of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, colouring, and dying : in three books : the like never yet extant (Printed by E.T. and R.H. for Richard Jones ..., 1672), by William Salmon and P. Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming in four books : exemplifyed in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries and figures of various forms, the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments, the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities, the paintings of the antients, washing of maps, globes or pictures, the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones and metals, the varnishing, colouring and gilding thereof according to any purpose or intent, the painting, colouring and beautifying of the face, skin and hair, the whole doctrine of perfumes, never published till now, together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting / by William Salmon ... (London : Printed by E.T. and R.H. for R. Jones ..., 1673), by William Salmon (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Portrait painting, its nature and function (John Lane, 1927), by Herbert Ernest Augustus Furst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Kunst des Porträts. (F. Hirt & sohn, 1908), by Wilhelm. Waetzoldt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man in art; studies in religious and historical art, portrait and genre (Macmillan and co., 1892), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Italienische bildnismalerei der Renaissance (P. Neff (M. Schreiber), 1906), by Karl Woermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits and portrait painting; being a brief survey of portrait painting from the middle ages to the present day (L. C. Page & company, 1907), by Estelle M. Hurll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of portrait painting (Cassell and Company, limited, 1905), by John Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'homme et son image (Hachette, 1905), by Ch. Moreau-Vauthier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dialoghi tra Claro, e Sarpiri per istruire chi desidera d'essere un eccellente pittore figurista. (Per Ferdinando Pisarri, 1778), by Carlo Antonio 1720- Pisarri and Ferdinando Pisarri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portrait and figure painting (The Cassell publishing co., 1894), by Frank Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints to young painters, and the process of portrait painting, as practiced by the late Thomas Sully. (J. M. Stoddart, 1873), by Thomas Sully, F. T. S. D., F. T. S. D., Charles Walter Stetson, and George Vaux Cresson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concerning portraits and portraiture (Press of C. Hamilton, 1891), by Helen Bigelow Merriman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Porträtmalvertrag unter dem Gesichtspunkte der Mitwirkung des Bestellers. (1912), by Ludwig Thelen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Bildnis im achtzehnten und neunzehnten Jahrhundert. (Schroll, 1906), by Julius Leisching (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exhibition of portraits by the National Association of Portrait Painters, water colors by William B.E. Ranken, sculpture by Lucy Currier Richards, miniatures by Stella Lewis Marks : the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, December, nineteen hundred and sixteen. (The Gallery, 1916), by University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery and National Association of Portrait Painters (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exhibition of portraits from the National Association of Portrait Painters and an exhibition of prints and drawings by Joseph Pennell : the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, March, nineteen hundred and sixteen. (The Gallery, 1916), by National Association of Portrait Painters (U.S.) and University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming (Printed by Andr. Clark, for John Crumpe ..., 1675), by William Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hints on portrait painting: illustrated by examples from the works of Vandyke and other masters. (D. Bogue, 1850), by John Burnet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure (Winsor & Newton, 1909), by Henry Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das holländische Porträt des XVII. Jahrhunderts (E.A. Seemann, 1923), by Franz Dülberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meisterbildnisse des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. (W. Undermann, 1924), by Oswald Goetz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Six portraits: Della Robbia, Correggio, Blake, Corot, George Fuller, Winslow Homer. (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoranda on the recently discovered portrait of Sir Thomas More (Blessed Thomas More), Lord High Chancellor of England under Henry VIII painted by Albert Durer ; with appreciation by the Most Reverend Timothy Casey, D.D. Bishop of St. John, N.B. (s.n., 1911), by Timothy Casey and Robert J. Wickenden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Gli Autoritratti Femminili delle RR. Gallerie degli Uffizi in Firenze (in Italian; Rome: Alfieri and Lacroix, ca. 1911), by Bice Viallet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Valuable paintings including portraits by Raeburn, Rommney, Reynolds and West. (Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1940), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die griechisch-ägyptischen Mumienbildnisse der Sammlung Th. Graf. (Krystallverlag, 1922), by Theodor Graf and Paul Buberl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Theodor Graf collection of unique ancient Greek portraits, 2000 years old, recently discovered and now on view in Old Vienna, Midway Plaisance at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (s.n., 1893), by Theodor Graf, Otto Philipp Donner von Richter, F. H. Richter, Fritz Ostini, and Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miniaturen-Ausstellung. [Katalogisierung: August Schestag und Eduard Leisching. (Selbstverlag des Ausstellungs-Komitees, 1905), by Palais des königlichen und Kaiserlichen Ministerrats-Präsidiums, Eduard Leisching, and August Schestag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Le portrait en France (G. van Oest & cie., 1909), by Louis Dumont-Wilden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das nazarenische bildnis; ein beitrag zur aesthetik und geschichte der porträtkunst ... (1927), by Ernst Brasch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meisterbildnisse des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts. (W. Undermann, 1924), by Oswald Goetz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Progressive lessons intended to elucidate the art of portrait painting : in which is introduced a systematic arrangement of the colours and tints used inflesh, draperies and back-grounds, with examples illustrative of the several stages of a picture, from the dead-colouring to the finishing, together with the pallets, as set out for the first, second, and third painting ; to which is added a treatise on miniature painting inthe course of which the colours and tints in general use, the preparation of the ivory, choice of pencils, and every kind of information in that department of art is fully aforded for the advancement of the practitioner. (Printed by Thomas White for Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, and Thomas Clay, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Das Bildnis im 19. Jahrhundert. (Propyläen-Verlag, 1921), by Emil Waldmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die anfänge der französisch-niederländischen portraitafel ... (Druck der Kölner verlags-anstalt und druckerei a.-g., 1906), by K. Westendorp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of portrait miniatures (G. Bell, 1904), by George Charles Williamson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte niederländischer Bildnismalerei im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Erster Teil. (1912), by Margarete Ring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le portrait-miniature : illustré par la collection de S. M. la reine des Pays-Bas. (P. N. Van Kampen, 1917), by Frits Lugt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Portretnai͡a zhivopisv́ Rossii: XVIII vek. (Gos. izd-vo, 1923), by Ė. F. Gollerbakh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Los grandes retratistas en España. (Fototipia de Hauser y Menet, 1914), by Narciso Sentenach y Cabañas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catálogo de la exposición de retratos de mujeres españolas por artistas españoles anteriores a 1850 : Madrid, mayo y junio de 1918. (Estab. Tip. de Blass y Cia., 1918), by Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte and A. de Beruete y Moret (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• On the theory and practice of painting in oil and water colours, for landscape and portraits ... : with a manual of lithography (Published for the author by Ackermann, 1846), by T. H. Fielding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of portrait painting in water-colours (Winsor and Newton, 1851), by Mary P. Merrifield and Winsor & Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on portrait painting from life (George Rowney & Co., 1887), by F. Haynes and George Rowney and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of portrait painting in oil colours : with observations on setting and painting the figure (Winsor and Newton, 1853), by Henry Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early American portrait painters in miniature (F. F. Sherman, 1921), by Theodore Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on portraits and how to catalogue them; a talk given to the fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Philadelphia, Monday evening, April 18, 1898, being the first annual meeting, by Charles Henry Hart. (J.B. Lippincott, 1898), by Charles Henry Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits (Redfield-Kendrick-Odell Co., 1918), by James Ben Ali Haggin and Jacques Séligmann (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

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