18th Century Revolutionary Figures

Engravings of influential 18th-century political figures. The artworks display detailed clothing and hairstyles, capturing the intellectual spirit of the era.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE German writer and scientist

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French lawyer and politician. Figure of the French Revolution. Member of Jacobin Club. Engraving. Portrait.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert 1717-1783. French mathematician, philosopher and writer. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Georges Louis Leclerc Count de Buffon, 1707-1788. French naturalist. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Thomas Paine, William Sharp, 1749-1824, British, after George Romney, 1734-1802, British, 1793, Line engraving, published state, Sheet: 10 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (27.6 × 22.2 cm)

Portrait of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) a prominent British Tory statesman and the youngest Prime Minister at the age of 24. Dated 18th century

Portrait of George Canning, hand-colored engraving

Franz Joseph Haydn (Rohrau, 1732-Viena, 1809). Compositor y director de orquesta autríaco. Fue maestro de Beethoven.

James Madison 1751-1836, Fourth President of the United States 1809-17, After a painting by Alonzo Chappel, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Alexander Hamilton, 1895. Albert Rosenthal (American, 1863-1939). Engraving;

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE German writer and scientist

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794). French lawyer and politician. Figure of the French Revolution. Member of Lacobin Club. Engraving. Portrait. Colored.

Matthew Boulton (1728-1809). English industrialist. Partner of James Watt. Engraving after portrait by Beechy

Germany, Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), German novelist, poet and playwright, print

Charles Marie de La Condamine, 1701 - 1774, French explorer, geographer and mathematician

Portrait of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, created by Chester Harding (1792-1866). The work is dated between 1777 and 1890, and it depicts Charles Carroll, who lived from 1737 to 1832

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet and literary critic, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Earl Beauchamp by George Engleheart (1750-1829) one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures.

Alexander Hamilton, engraving by John Francis Eugene Prud'homme, from an original miniature by Walter Robertson, c.1790-1800 (BSLOC_2019_4_94)

Louis Joseph BERLIOZ, 1776-1848 French doctor, father of Hector Berlioz, 1803-69 French composer

John Abernethy 1764 to 1831 English surgeon and teacher Engraved by J Cochran after Sir T Lawrence From the book National Portrait Gallery volume II published c 1835

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Third president of the United States of America (1801-1809), one of the Founding Fathers. He was the author of the Declaration of Independence. Portrait. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amérique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850. Later colouration.

Joseph Priestley 1733-1804. English clergyman, political theorist and physical scientist. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1780 - 1857, French poet and songwriter

Benjamin Franklin by Edward Fisher, 1730-approximately 1785, engraver 1780

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) addressing Parliament. Foreign Secretary 1830-1841; Prime Minister 1855-1857, 1858, 1858-1865. Engraving.

Arthur Wellesley,1st Duke of Wellington,1769-1852. British soldier and statesman. Engraved by T. Woolnoth after Sir T. Lawrence. From the book 'National Portrait Gallery Volume I' published 1830.

Thomas Grenville, 1755-1846.British book collector and diplomat. Engraved by TADean after J.Hoppner.From the book National Portrait Gallery Volume I published 1830., Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..

Portrait of Matthew Boulton by Unknown Artist dated 1770

William Gifford 1756 to 1826 English satirical poet classical scholar critic and editor Engraved by S Freeman after J Hoppner From the book National Portrait Gallery volume III published c 1835

Jacques Necker (1732-1804). French statesman and finance minister of king Louis XVI of France. Portrait. Engraving, 1903. Colored.

'Portrait of Prince Andrey Razumovsky'. Circa 1801. Dimensions: 56x46 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: ANONYMOUS.

Self-portrait - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, circa 1769

Charles Carroll of Carrollton a signer of the American Declaration of Independence. Carroll owned a Maryland plantation with 1000 slaves which he eventually freed. He was elected to the US Senate in 1789 (BSLOC_2019_4_163)

Georges Washington, Premier President des Etats-Unis d Amérique, by Paris publisher, Chez l'Auteur, Rue des Francs Bourgeois, c. 1800-1875, French engraving (BSLOC_2019_4_182)

William Henry West Betty or Master Betty, byname The Young Roscius, 1791-1874, an English actor

Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombast von Hohenheim or Paracelsus, 1493 - 1541, a Swiss physician, alchemist, astrologer, mystic, philosopher and lay theologian

James Monroe, 5th President of the United States

Spencer Perceval (born 1 November 1762 in London, died 11 May 1812) was a British statesman and prime minister. He was the only British Prime Minister to fall victim to an assassination attempt, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Thomas Young 1773 to 1829 English physician physicist and Egyptologist Engraved by G Adcock after Sir T Lawrence From the book National Portrait Gallery volume II published c 1835

Sir Astley Paston Cooper 1st Baronet 1768 to 1841 English surgeon and anatomist Engraved by J Cochran after Sir T Lawrence From the book National Portrait Gallery volume III published c 1835

George Brydges Rodney 1st. Baron Rodney (of Stoke Rodney) 1718-1792. English admiral. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

USA: William Clark (1770-1838, explorer and pioneer of the American West, Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827), c. 1810

Portrait of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (1771-1820) a Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony. Dated 18th Century

George Augustus Frederick The Prince of Wales and later King George IV 1762 to 1830

Henry Richard Vassall Fox 3rd Baron Holland 1773 to 1840 English Whig politician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

John Abernethy. Mezzotint after Sir T. Lawrence.

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy. Date: 1723 - 1792

Portrait of John Gainsborough, the Artist's Brother, Bust Length, in a Brown Jacket and Waistcoat and White Stock. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Oil on canvas. 76.2 x 63.5cm. John was the artist's eldest brother.

The Venerable Francis Wrangham, 1769-1842. Archdeacon of the East Riding of York Engraved by R.Hicks after J. Jackson. From the book 'National Portrait Gallery Volume I' published 1830.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Third President of the United States, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York

John Hoppner, 1758 - 1810. English portrait painter. After a print by Charles Turner from the self-portrait by Hoppner.

Portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss by Christian Albrecht Jensen, oil on canvas, 1840, 1792-1870, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 66x52

Maximilien Sebastien Foy (1775-1825). French military leader, statesman and writer. Portrait. Engraving by A. Lefevre. 19th century. Colored.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness. Date/Period: 1775. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 762 mm (30 in); Width: 635 mm (25 in). Author: Joshua Reynolds.

Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), English Painter, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York, 1873

'"Portrait of Prince Sergei Golitsyn"'. Russia, 1800s. Dimensions: 30,5x23,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Giovanni Battista Ortolani-Damon ( ).

Charles Marie de La Condamine, 1701 - 1774, French explorer, geographer and mathematician

Spencer Perceval (1762-1812) British Prime Minister from 1809. He was assassinated by Joseph Bellingham at the doors of the lobby of the House of Commons on 11 May 1812.

Thomas Chalmers 1780 to 1847 Scottish mathematician and leader of the Free Church of Scotland From the book The National Portrait Gallery Volume II published c1820

Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1780 - 1857, French poet and songwriter

Portrait of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) by Sartain, John (1808-1897)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ Between 1828 and 1880/ The United States/ Copper engraving/ Book design/ Portrait

Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756-Viena, 1791). Compositor austríaco de música clásica. Grabado de 1857.

Paris, France: c. 1790 An engraving of noted astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Andrew Pickens, 1739 to 1817, militia leader in the American War of Independence and member of the United States House of Representatives, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, 1719 - 1794, a German music publisher and typographer

Noah Webster, 1758 to 1843, American lexicographer, author and editor Nineteenth-century engraving by Kellogg after Morse, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a nineteenth-century original, Record date not stated

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Etching by W. Unger, 1881, after F. G. von Kügelgen, 1808/9.

Portrait Of James Lloyd, 1806. By John Constable

John Adams (1735-1826). American politician. Leader of the American Revolution. Second president of the United States of America (1797-1801). Portrait. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amérique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850. Later colouration.

Portrait of Louis XVI Attributed to Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802). Portrait of Louis XVI. Charcoal with chalk rehals, on bluish paper.

Portrait of Reverend John Rattenbury. unknown, graphic artist, London Joint Stock Newspaper Co. (Londyn ; wydawnictwo ; fl. ca 1858-186.), publishing house

Portrait of Joseph Goodyear, 1839. By Henry Room

Andrew Jackson, 1767, 1845, 7th President of the United States of America, Illustration from Gallery of Historical Portraits, published around 1880, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

William Pitt-Amherst, 1. Earl Amherst of Arracan. 1773-1857 .englischer Staatsmann, Generalgouverneur von Indien, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated.

David Ricardo (1772-1823) British political economist, born in London, England, of a Sephardic Jewish family. Engraving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him are extant. A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement. During his first ten years in Weimar, Goethe served as a member of the Duke's privy council, sat on the war and highway commissions, oversaw the reopening of silver mines in nearby Ilmenau, and implemented a series of administrative refor

Portrait Of Dr William Bache, 1800 British School, Portrait, Male, Doctor, Costume, Waistcoat

Thomas Young, English physicist and Egyptologist. Artist: GH Adcock

Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston and Baron Temple of Mount Temple byname PAM 1784 to 1865 English Whig-Liberal statesman Engraved by H Cook after J Lucas From the book National Portrait Gallery volume IV published c 1835

German school. Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832). Frankfurt, Goethe Museum. Author: GRAFIN JULIE. Location: MUSEO GOETHE. FRANKFURT AM MAIN. GERMANY.

Jeremy Bentham 1748-1832. English philosopher,economist and theoretical jurist. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Molina, Juan Ignacio.

Portrait of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), 1772. Charles Frederick von Breda

'John Evelyn', c1687, (c1818), (1911). Artist: Thomas Bragg.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, dramatist and scientist. Steel engraving c1860.

Portrait of English playwright Thomas Morton (1764-1838), engraving by W Hunt from a painting by Martin Archer Shee, 23x32 cm, Virtue and Co Publisher, London, circa 1860.

Weber, Karl Maria von.

William Wordsworth (born 7 April 1770 in Cockermouth, died 23 April 1850) was a British poet and leading member of the English Romantic movement, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)-engraved by R.Reyher.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister. He won a notable victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790, North American polymath, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Declaration of Independence

Heinrich Gottfried Bauer (1733-1811). German jurist. Portrait by Anton Graff (1736-1813), ca.1795. Wallraf-Richartz Museum. Cologne. Germany.

John Eager Howard, 1752-1827, American soldier and politician, Illustration from Gallery of Historical Portraits, published around 1880, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury (1768-1851) a British politician. Dated 19th Century

Sir William Jones 1746-1794, British orientalist and jurist. From the book Gallery of Portraits, published in 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Albert Gatscher (1807-1885), Professor and Director of the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Consistorial Councillor, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Imperial and Royal Monarchy, School Councillor, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

George Canning FRS, 11 April 1770, 8 August 1827, British politician who served as Foreign Secretary and for a short time as Prime Minister, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Portrait of William Hutton (1723-1816), 1890. British School.. Copy of an original portrait of the poet William Hutton.

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