The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “6 historical figures flattered by portraits and 6 who got a bad rap.”
- Queen Elizabeth and the ‘Mask of Youth’
- ‘The Whitehall Mural’ by Hans Holbein the Younger
- Isabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua
- Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
- Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
- The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power
- Doctored Portraits
- “Marie Antoinette: Pop Culture Icon”
- Cleopatra’s legacy in art: famous pharaoh and femme fatale
- Gillray Caricatures: The genesis of caricature
- ‘The table’s turn’d’ (Charles James Fox; William Pitt)