Lovely 1830's portraits by Stieler

[marydell]

Here's a post  in lamodeillustree featuring gorgeous portraits by Joseph Karl Stieler.  I'm not familiar with him but based on these I'll be looking him up. 


The community is wonderful, by the way -- it's all about fashion imagery through the ages.


[ETA: Google image search shows me that I am familiar with one portrait by Stieler, and so might you be:
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