diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 786e967..9d4319a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 include LICENSE
 include README.md
 include tox.ini
+include html2docx/image-broken.png
 include html2docx/py.typed
 recursive-include tests *.html *.json *.py
diff --git a/html2docx/html2docx.py b/html2docx/html2docx.py
index 96ee4b7..cc0c47d 100644
--- a/html2docx/html2docx.py
+++ b/html2docx/html2docx.py
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 from tinycss2 import parse_declaration_list
 from tinycss2.ast import DimensionToken, IdentToken
 
+from .image import load_image
+
 WHITESPACE_RE = re.compile(r"\s+")
 
 ALIGNMENTS = {
@@ -126,9 +128,14 @@ def add_list_style(self, name: str) -> None:
         suffix = f" {level}" if level > 1 else ""
         self.list_style.append(f"{name}{suffix}")
 
+    def add_picture(self, attrs: List[Tuple[str, Optional[str]]]) -> None:
+        src = get_attr(attrs, "src")
+        image_buffer = load_image(src)
+        self.doc.add_picture(image_buffer)
+
     def handle_starttag(self, tag: str, attrs: List[Tuple[str, Optional[str]]]) -> None:
         if tag == "a":
-            self.href = str(next((val for name, val in attrs if name == "href"), ""))
+            self.href = get_attr(attrs, "href")
             self.init_run([])
         elif tag in ["b", "strong"]:
             self.init_run(["bold"])
@@ -140,6 +147,8 @@ def handle_starttag(self, tag: str, attrs: List[Tuple[str, Optional[str]]]) -> N
         elif tag in ["h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6"]:
             level = int(tag[-1])
             self.p = self.doc.add_heading(level=level)
+        elif tag == "img":
+            self.add_picture(attrs)
         elif tag == "ol":
             self.add_list_style("List Number")
         elif tag == "p":
diff --git a/html2docx/image-broken.png b/html2docx/image-broken.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0c7e12
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diff --git a/html2docx/image.py b/html2docx/image.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f760686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html2docx/image.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import http
+import io
+import pathlib
+import time
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+
+from docx.image.exceptions import UnrecognizedImageError
+from docx.image.image import Image
+
+MAX_IMAGE_SIZE = 10 * 1024 * 1024  # 10 MiB
+
+
+def load_image(src: str) -> io.BytesIO:
+    image_buffer = None
+    retry = 3
+    while retry and not image_buffer:
+        try:
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(src) as response:
+                size = response.getheader("Content-Length")
+                if size and int(size) > MAX_IMAGE_SIZE:
+                    break
+                # Read up to MAX_IMAGE_SIZE when response does not contain
+                # the Content-Length header. The extra byte avoids an extra read to
+                # check whether the EOF was reached.
+                data = response.read(MAX_IMAGE_SIZE + 1)
+        except (ValueError, http.client.HTTPException, urllib.error.HTTPError):
+            # ValueError: Invalid URL or non-integer Content-Length.
+            # HTTPException: Server does not speak HTTP properly.
+            # HTTPError: Server could not perform request.
+            retry = 0
+        except urllib.error.URLError:
+            # URLError: Transient network error, e.g. DNS request failed.
+            retry -= 1
+            if retry:
+                time.sleep(1)
+        else:
+            if len(data) <= MAX_IMAGE_SIZE:
+                image_buffer = io.BytesIO(data)
+
+    if image_buffer:
+        try:
+            Image.from_blob(image_buffer.getbuffer())
+        except UnrecognizedImageError:
+            image_buffer = None
+
+    if not image_buffer:
+        broken_img_path = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / "image-broken.png"
+        image_buffer = io.BytesIO(broken_img_path.read_bytes())
+
+    return image_buffer
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b414aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+import http.server
+import os
+import sys
+import threading
+
+import pytest
+
+from .utils import TEST_DIR
+
+
+class CountingHTTPServer(http.server.HTTPServer):
+    request_count = 0
+
+    def finish_request(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.request_count += 1
+        return super().finish_request(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+class HttpServerThread(threading.Thread):
+    def __init__(self, handler):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.is_ready = threading.Event()
+        self.handler = handler
+        self.error = None
+
+    def run(self):
+        try:
+            self.httpd = CountingHTTPServer(("localhost", 0), self.handler)
+            port = self.httpd.server_address[1]
+            self.base_url = f"http://localhost:{port}/"
+            self.is_ready.set()
+            self.httpd.serve_forever(poll_interval=0.01)
+        except Exception as e:
+            self.error = e
+            self.is_ready.set()
+
+    def terminate(self):
+        if hasattr(self, "httpd"):
+            self.httpd.shutdown()
+            self.httpd.server_close()
+        self.join()
+
+
+class ImageHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def __init__(self, *args, directory=None, **kwargs):
+        if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
+            kwargs["directory"] = TEST_DIR / "images"
+        elif sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
+            kwargs["directory"] = os.fspath(TEST_DIR / "images")
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def translate_path(self, path):
+        if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
+            cwd = os.getcwd()
+            try:
+                os.chdir(TEST_DIR / "images")
+                return super().translate_path(path)
+            finally:
+                os.chdir(cwd)
+        return super().translate_path(path)
+
+
+def http_server_thread(handler):
+    server_thread = HttpServerThread(handler)
+    server_thread.daemon = True
+    server_thread.start()
+    server_thread.is_ready.wait()
+    yield server_thread
+    try:
+        if server_thread.error:
+            raise server_thread.error
+    finally:
+        server_thread.terminate()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="function")
+def image_server():
+    """
+    Start a HTTP server serving test images.
+    """
+    yield from http_server_thread(ImageHandler)
+
+
+class BadContentHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_GET(self):
+        self.close_connection = True
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="function")
+def bad_server():
+    yield from http_server_thread(BadContentHandler)
+
+
+class BadContentLengthHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_GET(self):
+        self.send_response(http.HTTPStatus.OK)
+        self.send_header("Content-Length", "invalid")
+        self.end_headers()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="function")
+def bad_content_length_server():
+    yield from http_server_thread(BadContentLengthHandler)
diff --git a/tests/data/1x1.png b/tests/data/1x1.png
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/tests/data/img.html b/tests/data/img.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8d1f45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/img.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<img src="https://via.placeholder.com/1x1.png">
diff --git a/tests/data/img.json b/tests/data/img.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f47314
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/img.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[
+    {
+        "text": "",
+        "runs": [
+            {
+                "text": "",
+                "shapes": [
+                    {
+                        "type": 3,
+                        "width": 9525,
+                        "height": 9525
+                    }
+                ]
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+]
diff --git a/tests/images/1x1.png b/tests/images/1x1.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..90a7589
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diff --git a/tests/test_html2docx.py b/tests/test_html2docx.py
index 27c475e..3cef917 100644
--- a/tests/test_html2docx.py
+++ b/tests/test_html2docx.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import json
-import pathlib
 
 import docx
 import pytest
@@ -7,8 +6,7 @@
 
 from html2docx import html2docx
 
-TEST_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve(strict=True)
-PROJECT_DIR = TEST_DIR.parent
+from .utils import PROJECT_DIR, TEST_DIR
 
 FONT_ATTRS = ["bold", "italic", "strike", "subscript", "superscript", "underline"]
 
@@ -51,6 +49,7 @@ def test_html2docx(html_path, spec_path):
         assert len(p.runs) == len(runs_spec)
         for run, run_spec in zip(p.runs, runs_spec):
             assert run.text == run_spec.pop("text")
+            shapes_spec = run_spec.pop("shapes", None)
             unknown = set(run_spec).difference(FONT_ATTRS)
             assert not unknown, "Unknown attributes in {}: {}".format(
                 spec_rel_path, ", ".join(unknown)
@@ -58,3 +57,10 @@ def test_html2docx(html_path, spec_path):
             for attr in FONT_ATTRS:
                 msg = f"Wrong {attr} for text '{run.text}' in {html_rel_path}"
                 assert getattr(run.font, attr) is run_spec.get(attr), msg
+            if shapes_spec:
+                shapes = run.part.inline_shapes
+                assert len(shapes) == len(shapes_spec)
+                for shape, shape_spec in zip(shapes, shapes_spec):
+                    assert shape.type == shape_spec["type"]
+                    assert shape.width == shape_spec["width"]
+                    assert shape.height == shape_spec["height"]
diff --git a/tests/test_load_image.py b/tests/test_load_image.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7212cab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_load_image.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+from unittest import mock
+
+from html2docx.image import load_image
+
+from .utils import PROJECT_DIR, TEST_DIR
+
+broken_image = PROJECT_DIR / "html2docx" / "image-broken.png"
+broken_image_bytes = broken_image.read_bytes()
+
+
+def test_basic(image_server):
+    image_data = load_image(image_server.base_url + "1x1.png")
+    expected = TEST_DIR / "data" / "1x1.png"
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == expected.read_bytes()
+
+
+def test_non_image(image_server):
+    image_data = load_image(image_server.base_url)
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+
+
+def test_bad_url():
+    image_data = load_image("bad")
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+
+
+def test_transient_network_error_retries():
+    url = "https://transient.network.issue.com/image.png"
+    with mock.patch(
+        "html2docx.image.urllib.request.urlopen",
+        autospec=True,
+        side_effect=urllib.error.URLError(
+            reason="[Errno -2] Name or service not known"
+        ),
+    ) as url_mock:
+        with mock.patch("html2docx.image.time.sleep", autospec=True) as time_mock:
+            image_data = load_image(url)
+            assert time_mock.mock_calls == [mock.call(1)] * 2
+        assert url_mock.call_args_list == [mock.call(url)] * 3
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+
+
+def test_404(image_server):
+    image_data = load_image(image_server.base_url + "nonexistent")
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+    assert image_server.httpd.request_count == 1
+
+
+def test_bad_server(bad_server):
+    image_data = load_image(bad_server.base_url)
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+    assert bad_server.httpd.request_count == 1
+
+
+def test_bad_content_length(bad_content_length_server):
+    image_data = load_image(bad_content_length_server.base_url)
+    assert image_data.getbuffer() == broken_image_bytes
+    assert bad_content_length_server.httpd.request_count == 1
diff --git a/tests/utils.py b/tests/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..916f68e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import pathlib
+
+TEST_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.resolve(strict=True)
+PROJECT_DIR = TEST_DIR.parent