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Blavatsky portraits and photographs 

Photograph or art work	Year	Artist	Notes
	Late 1840s	Unknown	Painting of young H. P. Blavatsky and her mother, H. Hahn. It is at the H. P. B. museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The painter is unknown, but it may have been HPB herself.
		Unknown	H. P. Blavatsky in New York days, from blavatskyarchives.com
	1877	Unknown
		Hermann Schmiechen	Fragment of painting by Hermann Schmiechen.
		Unknown
200px]]		Unknown	Photo of HPB reading book. Scanned by Theosophical Society in Archives.
		Unknown
	1888	William Quan Judge	Photo taken with Kodak camera as HPB was working on Lucifer. Photo courtesy of Will Thackara at International Theosophical Society (Pasadena); restoration of photo by Pavel Malakhov. QUOTE FROM ECHOES OF THE ORIENT VOL 1 pages 259, 262-263
	January 8, 1889	Enrico Resta	"The Sphinx" pose - the most famous image of HPB. This was taken in Resta's studio at 4 Coburg Place, Bayswater, London on January 8, 1889. Six glass plates were taken altogether; in some HPB is looking to the side or is holding a cigarette. The originals are now located in the Archives of the Blavatsky Lodge of the Theosophical Society in England. Image from the Theosophical Society in America Archives.
	18?????	Gutzon Borglum	Painted for his Theosophist father by the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, copied from the Resta photograph. This painting hangs in the Meditation Room in the headquarters building of the Theosophical Society in America.
	1931	Z. Vanessa Helder	Sketch published in World Theosophy vol. 1 no. 8, August 1931, p. 599.