Below is the list of very famous Portrait Painters lived through the Victorian Era, along with their birth detail and few of their famed and well-known portrait art.
- Sir George Hayter (17 December 1792 – 18 January 1871)
– Self-portrait at the age of 28 in 1820
– The State Portrait of Queen Victoria in 1863
- John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925)
– Portrait of Fanny Watts in 1877
– Rosina in 1878
– Portrait of Madame X in 1884
– Portrait of Lady Agnew of Lochnaw in 1893
– Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in 1903
– Portrait of Sir Edmund William Gosse in 1886
- Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873)
– Portrait of KatarzynaPotocka in oriental costume in 1854
– Portrait of BarbeDmitrievnaMergassov Madame Rimsky-Korsakov in 1864
- Jerry Barrett (1824–1906)
– The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari in 1858
- Thomas Jones Barker (1815 – 27 March 1882)
– Vittoria in 1813
– Major General Williams and his Staff leaving Kars in 1855
– ‘The Secret of England’s Greatness’ (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) in 1863
– Sir Edward Cockburn and George Cockburn
- James Jacques Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902)
– Portrait of Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby in 1870
– The Gentleman in a Railway Carriage in 1872
– Bible illustrations series
– The Life of Christ series
- Liborio Prosperi (‘Lib’) (1854 – 1928)
– The Lobby of the House of Commons in 1886
– Portrait of Victor Emmanuel III
– Portrait of John Corlett
- John Collier (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934)
– Portrait of Charles Darwin in 1883
– Portrait of John Elliott Burns in 1889
– A Glass of Wine in 1893
– Portrait of Angela McInnis in 1914
– Portrait of Thomas Huxley
– Full-length Portrait of Sir Charles TertiusMander, first baronet
- Henry William Pickersgill (3 December 1782 – 21 April 1875)
– James Silk Buckingham and his Wife in Arab Dress in 1816
– Portrait of Sir Richard Owen in 1845
- Thomas Phillips (18 October 1770 – 20 April 1845)
– Portrait of William Blake in 1807
– Portrait of Lord Byron in an Albanian dress in 1813
– Self-portrait in 1820
– Portrait of Michael Faraday in 1842
- Sir John Lavery (20 March 1856 – 10 January 1941)
– Portrait of Walter Burton Harris in 1907
– The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace in 1913
Evelyn Farquhar wife of Captain Francis Douglas Farquhar
- Daniel Maclise (25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870)
– Portrait of Charles Dickens in 1839
– Portrait of Lord Campbell
- Patrick Branwell Bronte (26 June 1817 – 24 September 1848)
– Emily 1833
– The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë) in 1834
Self Portrait in 1840
- Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896)
– Mariana in 1851
– Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe) in 1879
– Cherry Ripe in 1879
– Portrait of Effie Millais in 1873
– Vanessa in 1868
- Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 July 1931)
– Self Portrait
– Portrait of Robert de Montesquieu in 1897
– Portrait of Mrs. Charles Warren-Cram in 1885
– Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi in 1886
– Portrait de Madame E in 1892
- Sir William Blake Richmond (29 November 1842 – 11 February 1921)
– Self Portrait in 1863
– Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886
– Portrait of Mrs. Ernest Moon
- Friedrich von Amerling (14 April 1803 – 14 January 1887)
– Self Portrait in 1834
– Portrait of Ms. Plach in 1850
– George Hammond Lucy in 1841
– Portrait of Austrian Emperor Francis I
- Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799–1861)
– Portrait of Sultan Souk, a Kazakh leader
- Thomas Mogford (1 May 1809 – 13 June 1868)
– A full-length portrait of Sir Thomas Lethbridge, 2nd Baronet
- Edward Armitage (20 May 1817 – 24 May 1896)
– Self-portrait in 1882
– Portrait of Mrs. Edward Armitage in 1856
– The Siren in 1888
- Sir William Quiller Orchardson (27 March 1832 – 13 April 1910)
– Portrait of Sir John Leng in 1901
Voltaire in 1883
- Francis (“Frank”) Owen Salisbury (18 December 1874 – 31 August 1962)
– Presidential portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
– Portrait of Clarence Winthrop Bowen
- Ruth Simpson (1889 – 1964)
– Portrait of an Officer
-Frank Ver Beck
- Mark Gertler (9 December 1891 – 23 June 1939)
– Self-portrait
– Portrait of Queen of Sheba
- Alfred Edward Chalon (15 February 1780 – 3 October 1860)
– Girl Reading Letter
– Portrait of Queen Victoria
- Michele Gordigiani (May 29, 1835, October 7, 1909)
– Portrait of the Countess of Castiglione in 1862
– Portrait of Robert Browning in 1858
– Portrait of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury
– King Chulalongkorn of Siam in 1898
- George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904)
– Portrait of Miss May Prinsep
– Portrait of William Morris in 1870
– Portrait of George Meredith
– Portrait of Sir Leslie Stephen in 1878
George Harvey (1800-1878)
Here are some of George Harvey’s notable works:
- “The Bow in the Cloud”:
- “Morning”, “Noon”, “Evening”, and “Night”A Schule Skailin
- Winter”
- Covenanters’ Preaching