Pencil Drawings by Marie Faverio

More thanks to Paul for sending me these wonderful pencil drawings by Marie Claudia Faverio (after sending me her wonderful photos)! I feel honored to have the chance to showcase these drawings as well as the background for drawing these portraits. Marie is now our very own "Artist in Residence" and has been awarded a special prize for her talent and for what she does for the autistic community through my site in spite of her health problems. (As Marie's manager, Paul now has the password and can upload drawings too.)

Marie makes a very interesting statement about her reason for drawing portraits on her website: "Drawing with graphite pencils makes me feel particularly well (sometimes even relaxed). It helps me understand people, their facial expressions and their feelings when I draw portraits, so it helps me with autism and is somehow therapeutic. Interestingly, I am not the only autistic person who thinks so, and as a matter of fact I always thought I would never paint/draw portraits because I rarely connect with people, but when other autistic people explained how much they enjoy drawing portraits and how it helps them understand, I thought I would give it a go too, and I found out it really helps me too [...]. I think that the photos I have chosen are particularly good for this purpose and I would encourage other autistic people to study their facial expressions too. If you wish you can let me know (through Paul) what you see or also what you think I see that you don't notice in the photos. I think my Sylvia Plath is a bit sadder than the original one for example. Hemingway is also sadder. I know their fate of course, and I think this might have slightly influenced my drawings. In Pollock I see defiance and maybe also some nonchalance and so on. [...] Results will be published here. I would like to publish more comprehensive results by August 2019 if possible (hoping to have more data), but it is an ongoing project and results can and will also be added after this date. I hope some people will find this beneficial. [...] You are also welcome (as some already do) to send requests for drawings of your favourite portraits/photos."  Me (Jim): An exciting project! I have sent Marie and Paul my own interpretation of what I see in the facial expressions of these portraits and would encourage other autistic people to do the same, so that Marie can have enough data. I am delighted to participate in this project through my website and to help Marie and the autistic community. You can now also send your comments for the project directly to me. A Tribute to Marie by JR

***Click on the single images to enlarge them.***

Names and credits are after the drawings.

The copyright for the pencil drawings themselves belongs to Marie. The original drawings are all signed both at the front (initials) and at the back (full name).

All drawings Copyright © Marie C. Faverio

NB: Thematic slideshows can be found here or here.

***NEW*** A great new ongoing project - Faces of Angels: here (high resolution like on this site), here (Joel's Tribute to Marie) or here (Marie's website) 

Sir David Attenborough is 100 years old (May 8, 2026)!

1. Albert Frank (Marie's best friend); 2. Old Man; 3. Homeless Person; 4. Thinker; 5. Charles Bukowski; 6. Samuel Beckett: 7. Oskar Kokoschka; 8. Salvador Dalí; 9. Gandhi; 10. John Kennedy; 11. Jackie Kennedy; 12. Baby; 13. Virginia Woolf; 14. Sylvia Plath; 15. Ayn Rand; 16. John Lennon (young); 17. Chiara; 18. Alfred Hitchcock; 19. Giuseppe Ungaretti; 20. Oskar Schindler; 21. Sophie Scholl; 22. Jackson Pollock; 23. Bette Davis; 24. Frida Kahlo; 25. Giorgio de Chirico; 26. Pablo Picasso; 27. Oliver Sacks; 28. Robin Williams; 29. Nikola Tesla; 30. Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe; 31. Socrates; 32. Albert Einstein; 33. Albert Einstein (2); 34. Jack Nicholson; 35. Francisco Bullrich; 36. Clark Gable; 37. James Dean; 38. Anthony Hopkins; 39. Cesare Pavese; 40. Gérard Depardieu; 41. Pablo Picasso 2; 42. Anne Magnani; 43. Stephen Hawking; 44. Rod Serling; 45. Ernest Hemingway; 46. Robin Williams 2; 47. Freddie Highmore ("The Good Doctor"); 48. Martin Luther King Jr.; 49. Anne Sexton; 50. Charles Darwin; 51. Judith Wright; 52. Sad Clown; 53. Homeless Person 2; 54. Eleanor Roosevelt; 55. Eleanor Roosevelt 2 (young); 56. Cary Grant; 57. Linus Pauling; 58. Franz Kafka; 59.Thomas Mann; 60. Jodie Foster (young); 61. Dalai Lama; 62. Joan Crawford; 63. David Attenborough; 64. Judith Wright 2 (young); 65. Margherita Hack; 66. Edgar Allan Poe; 67. Andy Warhol; 68. Jonas Mekas; 69. Arvo Pärt; 70. Jack Nicholson 2; 71. Arthur Rubinstein; 72. Arthur Rubinstein 2 (young); 73. Claude Monet; 74. Martha Argerich; 75. Charles Bukowski 2; 76. Charles Dickens; 77. Lord Byron; 78. Jorge Luis Borges; 79. Bertolt Brecht; 80. Mark Twain; 81. Maria Callas; 82. John Brown; 83. Sigmund Freud; 84. Jean-Paul Sartre; 85. Arthur Schopenhauer; 86. Ludwig Wittgenstein; 87. Frédéric Chopin; 88. Ludwig van Beethoven; 89. Edvard Grieg; 90. Vladimir Horowitz; 91. Vladimir Horowitz 2 (young); 92. George Eliot; 93. Camille Claudel; 94. Bertrand Russell; 95. Pjotr Tschaikowski; 96. Alfred Cortot; 97. Giacomo Leopardi; 98. Rudolf Nureyev; 99. Claudio Arrau; 100. and 101. Sad Girl; 102. Clark Gable 2; 103. Audrey Hepburn; 104. Alfred Nobel; 105. to 108. Homeless Persons 3 to 6; 109. Charlie Chaplin; 110. Janis Joplin; 111. Sergei Rachmaninoff; 112. Eugenio Montale; 113. Franz Schubert; 114. Otto Klemperer; 115. Greta Thunberg; 116. Edith Piaf; 117. Burgess Meredith; 118. David Suchet; 119. David Suchet (2); 120. Herbert Beerbohm Tree; 121. Boris Karloff; 122. William James Sidis; 123. Stephen King; 124. Clara Schumann; 125. Giovanni Sgambati; 126. Claude Debussy; 127. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 128. Moritz Moszkowski; 129. Arturo Toscanini; 130. Dario Argento; 131. Dario Argento (2); 132. Robin Williams (3); 133. Francis Bacon; 134. Francis Bacon (2); 135. Francis Bacon (3); 136. Agatha Christie; 137. Another Homeless Person 7; 138. Joker; 139. Leo Tolstoy; 140. Noam Chomsky; 141. Edith Stein; 142. Emily Dickinson; 143. Sir Isaac Newton; 144. Antonio Salieri; 145. Mary K. White; 146. Anthony Hopkins (2); 147. Claude Cahun; 148. Felix Mendelssohn; 149. Gérard Depardieu (2); 150. Amelia Earhart; 151. Christine Lavant; 152. Alfred Hitchcock (2); 153. Ernest Hemingway in 1905; 154. Martha Argerich; 155. Bertrand Russell; 156. Johann Sebastian Bach; 157. Robert Schumann; 158. Victor Klemperer; 159. Queen Elizabeth II (young); 160. Queen Elizabeth II (last photo of the Queen); 161. Wilhelm Furtwängler (1912); 162. Noam Chomsky (1977); 163. Old Man; 164. James Dean (2); 165. Anissa Jones; 166. Anissa Jones (2); 167. Heather O'Rourke (1984); 168. Jonathan Brandis; 169. Marlene Dietrich; 170. Marlene Dietrich (2); 171. Giacomo Puccini; 172. Elizabeth Taylor; 173. Charles Hawtrey; 174. Oscar Wilde; 175. Henry Mancini; 176. Julie Andrews (c. 1965); 177. Nellie Bly (c. 1890); 178. James Joyce; 179. Lucia Joyce; 180. Johnny Ruffo; 181. Giuseppe Verdi; 182. Søren Kierkegaard; 183. Michio Kaku; 184. Diana, Princess of Wales; 185. Diana, Princess of Wales (2); 186. Helen Keller; 187. George Orwell; 188. Andrei Tarkovsky; 189. Elton John (young); 190. Nostradamus; 191. Baba Vanga; 192. Walt Whitman; 193. Gabor Maté; 194. Ann Turner Cook (real Gerber baby); 195. Maria Callas (2); 196. Enrico Caruso; 197. Francisco de Goya; 198. Margaret Mead; 199. Kate Middleton (Princess of Wales); 200. King Charles III; 201. Marie Curie; 202. Hans Christian Andersen; 203. Christina Rossetti; 204. Buster Keaton; 205. Nikola Tesla (according to Margaret Cheney in "Tesla: Master of Lightning" this is thelast photo of him, taken in 1943); 206. Vincent Price; 207. Kahlil Gibran; 208. Helena Blavatsky (around 1850); 209. Helena Blavatsky (2) (1877); 210. Ursula Le Guin; 211. Master Morya; 212. Simone de Beauvoir; 213. Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"); 214. Simona Kossak; 215. Lorraine Warren; 216. Ed Warren; 217. Albert Einstein at 3; 218.Albert Camus; 219. Hypatia of Alexandria; 220. Leonardo da Vinci; 221. Galileo Galilei; 222. Thomas Edison; 223. Jane Austen; 224. Homeless Person 8; 225. Jack Kerouac (1966); 226. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin; 227. Vincent van Gogh at 20 (in 1873); 228. Brooke Ellison; 229. Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses); 230. Lena Zavaroni (1974); 231. Mary Oliver; 232. Teddy (Theodore) Roosevelt (1879); 233. Nannerl Mozart (1763); 234. Ernest Hemingway (1923); 235. Ezra Pound (1920); 236. Michael J. Fox (2020); 237. Bruce Willis; 238. John Keats; 239. Laura Ingalls Wilder; 240. Romy Schneider; 241. Juliane Koepcke; 242. Prince Louis of Wales; 243. Princess Charlotte of Wales; 244. Prince George of Wales; 245. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) at 2 or 3 (1929); 246. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1904); 247. Emily Davison; 248. Aldous Huxley; 249. Helen Keller (2); 250. Patty Duke (as a child, she played Helen Keller in "Miracle Worker"); 251. Ruby Bridges at 6; 252. Mary Shelley (1842); 253. Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Bonnin c. 1921; 254. Beth Thomas (the "child of rage" all grown up and happy after overcoming her traumas); 255. Dame Nellie Melba; 256. Dame Joan Sutherland; 257. William Shakespeare (1611); 258. Mikayla Raines; 259. Brigitte Bardot with her first rescue dog Guapa (c. 1962); 260. Lyn Helton; 261. Maria Anna Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's sister) as an adult; 262. Nelson Mandela; 263. Gloria Steinem; 264. Egyptian Goddess Isis/Aset/Eset; 265. Rosalind Franklin; 266. Jane Goodall; 267. Maya Angelou; 268. Luciano Pavarotti; 269. Beatrice Portinari; 270. Mary Vincent; 271. Claire Wineland; 272. Carl Jung; 273. Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Bonnin c. 1898 (2); 274. Bindi Irwin; 275. Steve Irwin; 276. Christina Crawford; 277. Rachel Jeffs; 278. Michael Dransfield; 279. Dorothy Porter; 280. Michelangelo Buonarroti; 281. Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn); 282. Lewis Carroll; 283. Dame Edith Sitwell; 284. Elizabeth Packard; 285. Geraldine Chaplin; 286. Catherine Dior; 287. Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë; 288. Jacqueline du Pré; 289. Laika the Space Dog (victim of a sad human experiment); 290. Alice Paul; 291. David Helfgott; 292. Denis Diderot; 293. Robert Cavanaugh (an animal lover who was beaten to death on Christmas Eve 2024 while trying to save a dog from abuse at the hands of a neighbour); 294. Alison Botha; 295. Marie Antoinette at 15 (1770); 296. Enrico Fermi; 297. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (c. 1900); 298. Freddie Bartholomew (1936); 299. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (c. 1612); 300. Ella Baker (1953); 301. Christopher Robin Milne

Photo credits (when known - we did our best to find them, but this was not always possible due to the fact that many - if not most - photos are shared online without credit): 2. Salemwitch; 3. L. Jeffries; 4. K. Castro; 5. M. Hanauer; 6. J. Bown; 7. H. Erfurth; 8. P. Halsman; 10. WHPO; 11. Horst P. Horst; 12. V. Ceelen; 14. R. McKenna; 16. Iain Macmillan; 17. C. S. Parks; 21. Ullstein Bild; 24. G. Kahlo; 25. E. Gribaudo; 26. A. Newman; 27. M. Popova; 28. J. Kruzel; 29. N. Sarony; 30. J. K. Stieler; 31. G. E. Koronaios; 32. Y. Karsh; 35. B. La Plante; 36. C. Sinclaire Bull; 37. Movie Store Collection; 40. G. Biard; 43. NASA; 44. CBS; 46. M. Sayles; 47. Mingle Media TV Network; 48. IISG (detail); 50. J. Cameron; 51. P. Mohan; 52. C. G. Kiewicz; 53. L. A. Skalstad; 54. NARA; 55. NARA; 56. RKO; 57. US Government; 59. Nobel Foundation; 60. ABC-TV; 61. Lonyi; 63. J. Cairns; 64. National Library of Australia; 65. G. Zanotti; 68. F. Detti; 69. Woesinger; 70. PPI; 71. J. Evers; 72. Studio Harcourt; 73. F. Nadar; 74. Casa Rosada; 76. K. Field; 77. F. Bruckmann; 78. S. Facio; 79. J. Kolbe; 80. A. F. Bradley; 81. CBS; 82. J. Bowles; 83. F. Schmutzer; 84. Dutch National Archives; 85. Johann Schäfer; 86. B. Richards; 87. L.-A. Bisson; 88. J. K. Stieler; 89. Elliott& Fry; 90. R. Gerrits; 91. Bain News Service; 92. F. W. Burton; 93. César; 95. N. D. Kuznetsov; 96. Studio Harcourt; 97. A. Ferrazzi; 98. E. Koch; 99. A. Warren; 100. and 101. L. Jeffries; 102. MGM; 105. to 108.  L. Jeffries; 109. Silver Screen Collection; 110. D. Gahr; 111. Bain News Service; 112. K. Hagman; 113. W. A. Rieder; 114. G. Grantham Bain Collection; 115. A. Hellberg; 116. E. Koch; 117. Bureau of Industrial Services; 118. ITV; 119. P. Chambers; 120. Rotary; 123. P. Kolb; 124. Franz von Lenbach; 125. A. F. Fortuna; 126. Nadar; 127. F. Bruckmann; 128. E. Bieber; 130. Filmfestival Linz; 131. B. Eeles; 132. E. Rinaldi; 133. I. Penn; 134. P. Popper; 135. Ulf Andersen; 136. J. van Bilsen; 137. L. Jeffries; 139. М.М. Панов; 142. DIEM25; 143. G. Kneller; 144. J. W.  Mähler; 146. A. Gotts; 147. Claude Cahun; 148. E. Magnus; 150. Underwood & Underwood; 152. Allstar Picture Library/Universal Television; 154. Possibly D. Demarsico; 155. Anefo; 156. E. G. Haussmann; 158. E. Kemlein; 159. Library and Archives Canada; 160. Buckingham Palace; 161. F. Loewy; 162. H. Peters; 163. Piccsy; 165. Photo from "Family Affair"; 166. CBS; 168. Twentieth Century Fox; 169. AMPAS; 173. Publicity shot (unknown details); 174. N. Sarony; 175. RCA Records; 176. 20th Century Fox; 177. H. J. Myers; 178. A. Ehrenzweig; 179. B. Abbott; 180. Instagram photo; 181. G. Brogi; 182. Royal Library (Denmark); 186. NYPR Archives; 187. BNUJ; 189. A. Messer; 190. Cesar de Notre-Dame; 192. Dodd, Mead and Co.; 193. M. Stransky; 194. Cliff Cook; 195. J. van Bilsen; 197. V. L. Portaña; 198. Smithsonian Institution; 199. I. Jones; 200. Reuters; 201. Fotograv; 202. Getty Images; 203. Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 204. The Blue Book of the Screen; 206. Allied Artists; 210. W. Anthony; 211. H. Schmiechen; 212. A. Harlingue; 213. A. Mor; 216. SMH; 218. G. M. Gaspard; 219. E. Hubbard; 220.Possibly Leonardo himself; 221. J. Sustermans; 222. L. Bachrach; 223. C. Austen; 224. L. Jeffries; 225. Archivio Farabola; 226. Smithsonian Institution; 228. C. Carrion; 230. W. Punt for Anefo; 231. B. A. Valentin; 233. P. A. Lorenzoni; 234. NAID; 235. E.O. Hoppé; 236. C. Kennedy; 237. G. Skidmore; 238. J. Severn; 240. Silver Screen Collection; 242. M. Pilkington; 243. D. Campbell; 244. S. Hussein; 245. M. Adams; 246. Boasson/Eggler; 247. LSE Women's Library; 248. E. Gooch Collection; 250. G. Lyons; 251. The Children's Museum; 252. Author unknown, but it is the only known photograph of Mary Shelley (a daguerreotype); 255. Museums Victoria; 257. NPG; 262. T. Calitz; 263. J. Fries; 264. Louvre Museum (Paris, France); 265. M. Ochs Archives; 266. M. Karim; 267. C. Higgins; 268. M. Linssen; 269. M. Spartali Stillman; 270. Film Daily; 271. CNN; 272. Hulton Archive; 273. J. Kelley; 276. I. Savenok; 279. V. Wallace-Crabbe; 280. D. da Volterra; 281. Self-portrait; 282. O. G. Rejlander; 283. Getty Images; 286. Faber & Faber; 287. Branwell Brontë; 288. Warner Classics; 292. JS Berthélémy; 294. B. Eloff; 295. J. M. Millitz; 298. Selznick Studio - United Artists; 299. O. Leoni; 300. JDF; 301. Bettman Archive