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18th Century Portraits of Gentlemen

Collection of historical portraits depicting men in elaborate 18th-century attire, showcasing different styles and expressions through engravings and sketches.

Self-portrait of Taco Scheltema.
Self-portrait of Taco Scheltema.
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Portrait of Jonathan Wild (1683-1725) a London underground figure who would operate on both sides of the law. Dated 18th CenturyLazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, French revolutionary. Artist: UnknownCostume de Marcel, joué par Levasseur. - Les Juguenots, opéra. - Académie royale de musique ,. Paul Gavarni (1804-1866). Lithographs and Other WorksL'Ivrogne. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). LithographsCostumes de Différents Pays, 'Morlaque de l'Isle Opus'. L. F. Labrousse (France, Bordeaux, active late 18th century)Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810). France, circa 1797. Prints; engravings. Hand-tinted engraving on paperFrench tenor Gilbert Duprez in Dom Sebastien by Gaetano Donizetti, Theatre de l'Opera, 1843. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Victor Dollet from Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845.Holman, Joseph Gregor .Major General Charles Lee. Artist: Alexander Hay Ritchie (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1822-1895 New Haven, Connecticut); After B. Rushbrooke (American (), 18th-19th centuries). Dimensions: image: 6 1/8 x 4 7/16 in. (15.5 x 11.3 cm)sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 1/2 in. (30.7 x 24.2 cm). Sitter: General Charles Lee (American, England 1732-1782 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Date: 1840-95. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Portrait of Prince Frederik, Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1831 - 1833 drawing paper. chalk historical personsPétion-Villeneuve, Jerome de.Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, British, Lord Harrington and Lord Petersham, undated. Watercolor with pen and gray and red-brown ink, over graphite; verso: graphite shading on medium, slightly textured, biege, wove paper.Mr. Argot, the King's first nazillard. (Title registered (letter)) | Chapel musicians (title of all)Washington. Artist: Hezekiah Wright Smith, American, 1828-after 1879José María Cárdano Attributed to / 'José María Torrijos'. After 1831. Pen lithography on wove paper. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.THOMAS LAUGHER Born in Worcestershire, he ended his days St Martin's workhouse, London, retaining his faculties till 3 days before he died. Date: 1699 - 1813Drawings according to the common people in particular the call to buy in Vienna, Betenkrämer, Marchand de Chaplets seller of rosarys, Verlag T, Mollo from , Publishing House, Johann Christian Brand -, Artist, Carl Conti -, Copper EngraverNapoleon Toby Jug. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 44.9 x 30.9 cm (17 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.) Original IAD Object: .263 cm(High) .202 cm(Wide). Medium: oil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eugene Shellady.Indian leader according to Jiles Favée. A clip from a German magazine Barbant, Charles (1844 1922), favée, Jules (n.n.)S. A. R. The Duke of Bordeaux.Paris, Aubert, Gabriel, Becquet, Daumier, Honoré, Mr. Barthe, Caricature of Minister Félix Barthe, verso - stamped, Under his right arm Barthe carries his ministerial portfolio., print, picture, cartoon, prints, 456, recto - handwritten, height 360 mm, width 278 mm, French, 1808-02-26 - 1879-02-10, print maker, printmaker, 1833 - 1833, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publication, 1784-07-24 - 1847-03-16, publisherpeople ""Der Advokat"" (The Lawyer) illustration from ""Muenchner Bilderbogen"" (Munich Sheet of Pictures) wood engraving 19th century,Richard Brookshaw, 1736-1804, Monsieur Masson, The Tennis Player. Mezzotint.Early figure study for Valley Forge” mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897L'Independant. (IT)Portrait of Frederik Frans, Duke of Brunswijk-Luneburg. Portrait bust in octagon of Frederik Frans, Duke of Brunswijk-Luneburg. The head is slightly turned to the left and torn with a stitch. Under the oval are his name and titles.. Portrait of Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff (I), Governor General of the Dutch East Indies, at the age of 39. He stands with the command stove in his hand at a table on which a globe, in a room. A servant with a bird on his hand behind him. Through the gate on the left is a statue of Mercury, the God of trade, and the sea with ships.Garde de l'Espadonneur. Figure A. Garde Dêfensive du Pointeur. Figure B., James Gwin, 1700-1769, 1763, Gray wash, graphite, pen and gray ink and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, Contemporary drawn border: 11 1/16 × 16 7/16 inches (28.1 × 41.8 cm) and Sheet: 9 1/2 × 15 3/8 inches (24.1 × 39.1 cm)Morgans Rifleman, South, Painted by Alonzo Chappell, Engraving by John C. McRae, circa 1880Bunny illustration from Vanity Fair 8 July 1876General James Oglethorpe, 1777 - 1890, Ireland, Samuel (d. 1800)., 1777 - 1890. Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785Henry Cavendish. Aquatint by C. Rosenberg after W. Alexander.Foy, Maximilian Sebastien.Six scenes of Napoleon's life Octave Tassaert (1800-1874). "Six scenes of the life of Napoleon: last memories, Sainte-H�l�ne (1816 to 1821)". Engraving.Frédéric Auguste, premier roi de Saxe (1811). D'après F. Gérard. XIXe siècle, Allemagne.. Jacquemin, Raphaël, 1821-1881. Deltre, Auguste, 1822-1907. Prints, Illustrations. 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Clothing and dress , France, Costume , France, Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, 1797-1854Schwarzburg-Blankenburg, Günther Graf.Karl Mathias Rott as Großcanon costume picture No, for the theater newspaper, Andreas Geiger -, Copper Engraver, after, Johann Christian Schoeller -, artistCABRERA , RAMON. GUERRILLERO CARLISTA. TORTOSA 1806-1877. GRABADO COLOREADO DE LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.Statue of an Egyptian idol in diaphanous robe holding an ankh and lotus. Found in the Canopus of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate engraving by G. Bossi after an illustration by G. Bossi from Pietro Paolo Montagnani-Mirabili's Il Museo Capitolino (The Capitoline Museum), Rome, 1820.Vinchant de Gontrooul, Charles Philippe Joseph Agathon Graf von.Jules Lefevere, Needlepoint Picture, c 1937 Needlepoint PictureBrown pen portrait by Ludwig Emil Grimm, 1830, depicting the sculptor Werner Henschel on gray paper, focusing on facial features, expression, and upper body posture.Engraving depicting a young man demonstrating equilibrium of body with one point of support at (g) directly above the point of support. Dated 19th CenturyThe Royal Jasey!! A Sketch For a Vice-Roy!!, Isaac Cruikshank, 1756-1810, British, 1797, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 12 3/8 x 9 5/8in. (31.4 x 24.4cm)A Portrait (Lord Petersham) January 10, 1812 Thomas Rowlandson Lord Petersham standing on a flight of stairs, holding a cane in his right hand and a hat in his left.. A Portrait (Lord Petersham). Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757-1827 London). January 10, 1812. Hand-colored etching. Hannah Humphrey (London). PrintsCaptain Gerardus Oorthuys, standing at half-length to the left, his right arm resting on a ship's rope. Portrait of Gerardus Oorthuys Gerardus Oorthuys, sea captain , print maker: Robbert Muys, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Nicolaes Muys, (mentioned on object), Rotterdam, 1782, paper, engraving, h 321 mm × w 240 mmPoliticians - Vanity Fair - 'Capital Punishment'. Mr Charles Gilpin. January 18, 1873, unknown artist, nineteenth century, 1873, ChromolithographJussieu, Bernard de.Napoleon / Emperor of the French, King of Italy. / God gives me spoke to whom the touch. / Milan 26 May 1805 / Dedicated and presented to the Conservative SenateThe Union of Three Orders by Michel Nicolas Perseval. (IT)Published by Vincent Robert Alfred Brooks, 1814-1885, British, Jockeys of the Victorian and Edwardian Turf executed by Spy and others for the 'Vanity Fair' Series. Chromolithograph.POSTILLON. Chapeau de velours, galon dargent. …. Artist: Paul Gavarni, French, 1804-1866Ship's Stores Clerk', 1799. Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation.published in Vanity Fair, May 25th 1872: Vanity Fair: Statesman, No. 113 "The Massive Grievance", 1872. Thomas Nast (American, 1840-1902). Color lithograph; sheet: 35.6 x 33.1 cm (14 x 13 1/16 in.); border: 30.3 x 19.1 cm (11 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.).Statue of the Late Mr. Joseph Brotherton, erected in Peel Park, Manchester, 1858. British politician, Nonconformist minister and pioneering vegetarian. 'The statue is of bronze, by Mr. M. Noble...Mr. Brotherton is represented in modern costume, and in an easy attitude, as if speaking...The statue is of colossal proportions, being ten feet high, and weighing about five tons. The pedestal is of Aberdeen granite...and bears inscriptions on three sides: "Joseph Brotherton, Esquire, the first, and for twenty-four successive years (from 1832 to 1857), the faithful, representative of the borouAlexander Wilson (1766-1813), teacher and ornithologist. Born in Paisley, Scotland, he emigrated to America in 1794 and became an American citizen in 1804. Many consider him to be the father of American ornithology. At the time of his death, seven of the planned nine volumes of his American Ornithology (1808-1814) had been published. The last two volumes were completed by his friend George Ord. From The Naturalist's Library, edited by William Jardine (Edinburgh and London 1839-1854) . Copperplate engraving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedPrinter: Thomas Hart, London, David Wooster,Esqr., Mezzotint, sheet: 45.2 × 32 cm (17 13/16 × 12 5/8in.), Made in United Kingdom, British, 18thcentury, Works on Paper -PrintsMungo Park. Stipple engraving by W. T. Fry, 1820, after H. Edridge.Illustration from a nineteenth century edition of 'Robinson Crusoe' a novel by Daniel Defoe. The book was first published on 25 April 1719. It relates the story of Robinson Crusoe, stranded on a desert Island for 28 years and his subsequent fight for survival.The Earl of Rackland, 1880. 'There is not an old-established tradesman...at the west end of London who does not know Lord Rackland, and who is not proud to have the Earl's name upon his books, a judicious reverence for the hereditary nobility, combined with high prices and long bills, having ever been considered one of the truest principles of British commerce. There is no better customer than his Lordship, for he suffers his scores to accumulate without examination or remark, letting interest grow upon interest till they form quite a feature in the ledger of many a respected householder of BoTallien, Jean Lambert .Portrait of Samuel Story. Schout-at-night Samuel Story is on a ship. A second ship will dampen in the background between the clouds.Alessandro Volta 1745-1827 italienischer Physiker, der seinen elektrischen Akku demonstriert / Alessandro Volta 1745-1827 Italian physicist, demonstrating his electric pile battery. Wood engraving, Paris, c1870., Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,Wooster, David .Portret van Philip Mercier, James Mcardell, After Philippe Mercier, 1756 print Portrait of the son of Philippe Mercier playing with a toll. London paper historical persons. spinning a topThe Drunkard 1834 France. Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper . Honoré-Victorin DaumierPortret van Samuel Story, Charles Howard Hodges, 1799 - 1837 print Schout-Bij Night Samuel Story is on a ship. A second ship appears in the background between the clouds. Amsterdam paper nightMe-na-wa, a Creek Indian. Coloured lithograph by J.T. Bowen after C.B. King, 1837.Alexander Hamilton (born 11 January 1755 or 1757 on Nevis, West Indies, now St. Kitts and Nevis, died 12 July 1804 in New York City) was an American statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States and its first Secretary of the Treasury. He is also considered one of the first state theorists of representative democracy, after a painting by Alonzo Chappel (1828-1878), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, RecorEmmerich Freiherr von Babarczy, also Emerich Baron de Babarczy, 1818, 24 December 1881, was a k. u. k. Kämmerer and field marshal lieutenant, sub-lieutenant and house commander of the 1st Arcièren-Leibgarde, but also a writer of Hungarian descent, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedWilliam Shakespeare Artist Unknown Amsterdam, Roos, Cornelis Sebille (publisher), Craco, Johannes, Rotterdam, Sallieth, Mathias de, Portrait of Willem van Braam, verso - stamped, rear admiral of Holland and West Friesland., print, prints, height 332 mm, width 242 mm, Czech, Northern Netherlands, 1749 - 1791-11-29, print maker, printmaker, 1782 - 1782, paper, papier, etching, etchings, stippelets, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1746 - 1807-06-06, intermediary draughtsman, after a drawing by, Publication (Event), Publication, Dutch, 1754-01-10 - 1820-01-31, publisherLITOGRAFIA - FERNANDO VII. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA DE MADRID-GRABADOS ByN. MADRID. SPAIN. FERNANDO VII (1784-1833).Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869) said Dantan the young. Statuette of the writer Edmond-Roger de Bully, dit de Beauvoir (1809-1866). Patinated plaster, terrestrial, 1837. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Haut-de-Form hats off, dandy, French writer, patterned patina, novelist, statuette, terracottaFRENCH HABITS, NUMERO 5 : PRESIDENT D'ADMINISTRATION MUNICIPALE James Gillray (1757-1815). "French clothes, number 5: President of Municipal Administration". Engraving.Henri Gervex (1852-1929) and Alfred Stevens (1823-1906). "Kléber and Monge, fragment of the panorama of the century". Oil on canvas, 1889. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 36415-5 French Army, Board, General Francais, General, French mathematician, soldier, French officer, scientist, oil on canvasHistorical illustration from the 19th century, the Goethe-Schiller monument, a bronze double statue of the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, in front of the former Court Theatre in Weimar, circa 1900, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, EuropeCaptain Asgill.. Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Asgill, Charles, Sir, 1760-1823Marceau, Francois Severin Desgravier Stecher: Net, Friedrich WilhelmThe figures are an ensign and the Margrave of Brandenburg, Joachim II Hector (the first Protestant Elector of Brandenburg).On the / Professory warrior.Napoleon at St. Helena Samuel William Reynolds (British, 1773-1835). , 1829. Mezzotint on cream colored laid paper, 15 3/4 x 10 3/8 in. (40 x 26.3 cm). European Art 1829Portrait of Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816), by Fernando Leal (1896-1964). Anfitetatro Simon Bolivar, Mexico City. Mexico, 18th-19th century.Frederich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt (1813-1848) Prussian (German) explorer and naturalist, in 1848 he began a journey across Australia from east to west, starting from Moreton Bay. He disappeared and no trace of him was ever found, The Illustrated London News (London, 1846), Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated