James’s work is defined by its painter sensibility — an enduring influence on generations that followed. Most artists are dead; following is a declaration of love.

Lady Elizabeth Montagu
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1728-1765) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)

Time Clipping the Wings of Love
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1728-1765) after Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641)

Portrait of John Lockhart, Esquire
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1728-1765) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)

Rembrandt's Father
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1710-1765) after Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)

Mrs. Bonfoy
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1728-1765) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)

Cupid and Psyche
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1728-1765) after Gottfried Schalcken (Dutch, 1643-1706)

Emily, Countess of Kildare
James McArdell (Irish, c. 1710-1765) after Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723-1792)

Saint James the Greater
Master F.P. (Italian, c. 1530-1550) or after Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Il Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)

Untitled
James McGarrell American, born 1930

Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water
James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834–1903)

James William Wallack
Charles Robert Leslie American, born England, 1794–1859

At Mouquin's
William Glackens (American, 1870–1938)

Windmill, Veere
James McBey American, born Scotland, 1883-1959

James Vibert, Sculptor
Ferdinand Hodler Swiss, 1853-1918

Many Mansions
Kerry James Marshall American, born 1955

Mary (Polly) Lawton Bringhurst
James Peale (American, 1749–1831)

Butterfly
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903

Title Page, from A select collection of views and ruins in Rome and its vicinity
James Merigot French, active in England, 1760-1824 published by James Merigot and Richard Edwards (English, active c. 1795)

Coverlet
James Cunningham (American, born Scottish, c. 1797-after 1865) United States, New York, Oneida County, New Hartford

Design cover for West Point Song of the Graduates
James McNeill Whistler American, 1834-1903