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• Portrait painting -- Italy -- History
• Portrait painting -- Netherlands -- History
• Portrait painting -- Switzerland -- History

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

• Historical portraits, the lives by C.R.L. Fletcher, the portraits chosen by Emery Walker; with an introd. on the history of portraiture in England. (Clarendon Press, 1909), by H. B. Butler, C. R. L. Fletcher, and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Per Krafft d. y. och samtida svenskt porträttmåleri. ([Kungl. boktryckeriet P. A. Norstedt & söner], 1928), by Evald Evaldsson Uggla (page images at HathiTrust)

• Michael Dahl and the contemporary Swedish school of painting in England (Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-aktiebolag, 1927), by Wilhelm Nisser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La femme anglaise et ses peintres. (Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1903), by Henri Bouchot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition illustrative of early English portraiture. (Printed for the Burlington fine arts club, 1909), by Burlington Fine Arts Club, Max Rosenheim, C. F. Bell, and Lionel Cust (page images at HathiTrust)

• Histoire de la peinture de portrait en France au XVIe siècle, accompagnée d'un catalogue de tous les ouvrages subsistant en ce genre, de crayon, de peinture à l'huile, de miniature, d'émail, de tapisserie et de cire en médaillons. (G. van Oest et cie, 1924), by Louis Dimier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La société du xviiie siecle et ses peintures. Ouvrage orné de 12 portraits hors texte. (Perrin et cie, 1912), by Léandre Vaillat (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Schönheiten-Galerie König Ludwig I. in der Münchner Residenz, mit einer Einleitung und den Lebensbeschreibungen der Dargestellten (Hanfstaengl, 1927), by Residenzmuseum München, King of Bavaria Ludwig I, and Augusta von Oertrzen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die frühmittelalterliche Porträtmalerei in Deutschland bis zur Mitte des XIII. Jahrhunderts. (Verlag von Georg D.W. Callwey, 1907), by Max Kemmerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bildnisse aus drei Jahrhunderten (Langewiesche, 1917), by Karl Scheffler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Das Bildnis in Hamburg : als Manuskript gedruckt ([s.n.], 1898), by Alfred Lichtwark and Kunstverein in Hamburg (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lely & the Stuart portrait painters; a study of English portraiture before & after Van Dyck: (P. L. Warner, publisher to the Medici society, limited, 1912), by C. H. Collins Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exhibition illustrative of early English portraiture. (Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1909), by Burlington Fine Arts Club, Max Rosenheim, C. F. Bell, and Lionel Cust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... (Clarendon Press, 1909), by H. B. Butler, C. R. L. Fletcher, and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An historical catalogue of portraits, representing distinguished persons in the history and literature of the United Kingdom. (W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1820), by British Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical portraits, Richard II to Henry Wriothesley, 1400-1600 (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Italienische bildnismalerei der Renaissance (P. Neff (M. Schreiber), 1906), by Karl Woermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Le portrait florentin de Botticelli à Bronzino (H. Laurens, 1924), by Jean Alazard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Florentiner Bildnis (F. Bruckmann, 1904), by Emil Schaeffer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Beiträge zur Geschichte niederländischer Bildnismalerei im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (E.A. Seemann, 1913), by Margarete Ring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bildnisse aus drei Jahrhunderten (Langewiesche, 1917), by Karl Scheffler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Die Porträtkunst Hans Holbeins des jüngeren und ihr einfluss auf die schweizerische bildnismalerei im XVI. jahrhundert. (Druck von J.H.E. Heitz, 1909), by Elsa Frölicher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Portrait painting, its nature and function (John Lane, 1927), by Herbert 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, Montague Marks, Cassell Publishing Co, and Mershon Company Press (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)
• Das Bildnis im achtzehnten und neunzehnten Jahrhundert. (Schroll, 1906), by Julius Leisching (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• Norsk billekunst gjenmen tusen aar. Redaktion: Henrik Grevenor, Anders Bugge, Thor B. Kielland. (W. Nygaard, 1925), by Henrik Grevenor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of miniatures and other works by Edward Greene Malbone, 1777-1807 (The Gallery, 1929), by Edward Greene Malbone, Ruel P. Tolman, and National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (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)

• 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)

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