To Ellen


This blog is made to the honor of my grandmother Ellen Elisabeth Thomsen who was a modern woman .
She was born in Randers in Denmark 1895 and died in Copenhagen 1976.
She had long salmon red hair down to her hips. It was braided and put up with lots of hairpins to make it look short.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Women with very long red hair




Charles A. Buchel









Carolus Duran









George De Forest Brush
Celtic woman

A remarkably strong picture because of the dog.









Clarence Drew Bartlett










Johan Patricny
Elisabeth in black dress











Fernand Khnopff











Emma Florence Harrison









Delphin Enjolras









Jules LeFebvre
Lauretta







Joseph DeCamp
Portrait of Miss Alice Boit







Giovanni Giacometti









Dante Gabrielle Rosettti











William James Neatby









Henry Ryland











Maria Stillman









Artist Unknown












Van Dongen











Jean Joseph Hermann Richir

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Other men with red hair





William Corden
Portrait of Thomas  Tatlow









German Miniature of  red haired young man






Aurel Naray
Self portrait







William Henry Barribal (1874–1952)








Bernard Pankok
Portrait of Emil Orlik







Vasili Polenov







Thomas Fox
A marine merchant 1834






A. Sachs










Artist Unknown
Abraham and Ismael











Ion Thedoresco Sion
Self portrait








There are at least four paintings of Judas which show  him  red haired.



Edvard Okun
Judas Iscariot







Artist unknown








Artist unknown









Carl Bloch


Judas is  leaving the last supper to fore fill his destiny.
Perhaps the picture underneath is  another Judas  as well?





Ion Theodoresco Sion
Self portrait?
No I  actually think it's a portrait inspired by photographs of Rasputin










Giorgian  miniature portrait






Unknown German Biedermeier artist










Sigmund Walter Hampel
Portrait of  Josef Lanner









Huet Villiers
Portrait of Major Thomas Otway-Cove









Peter August Boeckstiegel








Akseli Gallen Kallela








Artist Unknown
Found in Swedish Auction site







Old German unknown painter
Red bearded powerful elderly man.

There are so many fine old paintings in Action sites all over the world.





Zlatko Šulentić (1893-1971). 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Red haired or red bearded males



In the beginning when I started this blog I hardly could find any portraits of red haired
 or red bearded  men and boys. But it turns out that there are really many. 



Antoine Wiertz
Quasimodo






Emil Orlik
Hans Wassman in Role



Vlaho Bukovac
Self portrait






Csontvary Kosztka Tivadar






Unknown Artist







Ernst Bieler







Ric Wouters





Artist unknown







Jozef Chelmonski






Hermann Pistor






Henner









Henri Edmond Cross
Portrait of Maximillian Luce






Constant Montald








Emile Friant






Peter August Boeckstiegel
Self Portrait