Of course we all love his gorgeous portraits of society matrons draped across their fainting couches in flowing tea gowns and whatnot, but I find that when he turns his eye towards the menz of that period, we catch a whiff of sensuality that borders on the lurid, especially in the portraits of Bedouin Arabs he painted in his later years and his Greco-Romanesque recreations (bottom row). From top, left: Lord Dalhousie (1900), William Butler Yeats (1908), Dr Samuel Pozzi, and Leon Delafosse (1895). (via Sissy Dude)