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

An engraving depicting Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) one of the Founding Fathers, polymath, author, political theorist, printer, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Dated 18th Century

Félix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Hamburgo, 1809-Leipzig, 1847), compositor alemán de música clásica.

Portrait of John Greenwood junior, circa 1795, England, by William Beechey. Gift of Hugh Greenwood on behalf of the Greenwood family, 2005.

William Hyde Wollaston 1766-1828. British scientist and philosopher. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832). German humanist and writer. Litography.

'Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832. - Gemälde von J.K. Stieler', 1934. Artist: Unknown.

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 1732 - 1799, French entrepreneur and writer

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH English poet

Lord Francis Jeffrey 1773 to 1850 Scottish judge and literary critic of the Edinburgh Review, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

George Canning 1770 to 1827 English statesman and Prime Minister from April to August 1827, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn. Museum: Museo Bibliografico Musicale, BOLONIA, ITALIA.

Portrait of Józef Michałowski, senator. Brodowski, Józef (1781-1853), painter

Sir Robert Abercromby (5th Baronet), Sir Henry Raeburn (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1756 - 1823) 1816

Sir John Frederick William Herschel. Wood engraving, 1871.

John Owen, English theologian, 17th century, (1899). Artist: Unknown

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Johann Caspar Füssli Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Johann Caspar Füssli Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660377

RETRATO DE ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE - (1790-1869) - POETA Y POLITICO FRANCES DEL PERIODO ROMANTICO. Author: THOMAS COUTURE. Location: MUSEO DE ARTE E HISTORIA. Genève. Switzerland.

Portrait of Joseph Chénier (1764-1811) a French poet, dramatist and politician of French and Greek origin. Dated 18th Century

Rodolphe Emmanuel de Haller (1745-Vers 1820), banker, intendant of the armies of Bonaparte in Italy. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 27091-18 Army of Bonaparte, banker, intendant, Italy, portrait

Warren Hastings, 1732-1818, an English statesman

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660407

Portrait of William Shenstone (1714-1763), 1765. By Edward Alcock

Portrait of Friedrich Schiller, photographed on silver gelatin paper using a box cabinet format in 1899.

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, known as Lord Castlereagh (1769-1822). Irish statesman. Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830). Oil on canvas, 1809-1810. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom.

Presumed portrait of Joseph Lebon (1765-1795), conventional ". Paris, Musée Carnavalet. 27032-4 Convention, conventional, French politician, member, portrait, hat

Reginald Heber, 1783-1826.English Lord Bishop of Calcutta, poet and hymn writer. Engraved by T. Woolnoth after T. Phillips. From the book 'National Portrait Gallery Volume I' published 1830.

Self Portrait, Sir John Everett Millais (Southampton, England, 1829 - 1896) 1883

Christian Friedric Schwartz 1726-1798. Lutheran missionary. From the book Gallery of Portraits, 1833., Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century, Record date not stated..

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840). Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. Portrait. Engraving.

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Bohemian German composer

Gilbert Stuart, John Jay, 1794 John Jay

Germany: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician and scientist, oil on canvas, Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792-1870), 1840

Maximilian I Joseph or Max Joseph, 1756 - 1825, King of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Juelich and Berg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, digitally edited

Francesc Aragó (Estagell, Rosselló, 1786-París, 1853). Científico que destacó por su actividad de investigación en la astronomía, física, mecánica, óptica, electricidad, magnetismo, meteorología y geografía. Ministro de la segunda república francesa y co-príncipe de Andorra.

George BARRINGTON, 1755-1804, Irish adventurer, allegedly wrote several histories of Australia, c.1785

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, 1725 - 1798, Italian adventurer and author, digitally edited

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 1818, French mathematician Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 1818, French mathematician Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660492

THE DOCTOR OF FERNANDO VII. Author: VICENTE LOPEZ PORTAÑA. Location: FUNDACION RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA. GRANADA. SPAIN.

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

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826, the third president of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence

Portrait of James Christie (1730 - 1803). Date/Period: 1778. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 49.6 in (126 cm); Width: 40.1 in (101.9 cm). Author: Thomas Gainsborough.

William Henry Harrison, 1773 -1841, 9th 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

Benjamin Franklin, when he served as ambassador to France from Dec. 1776 to 1785, during the American Revolution. In this portrait he wears a silk shirt with lace, and green silk coat with a fur collar. The painting is a copy of the original portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (BSLOC_2019_4_110)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749, 1832, German poet

Ségur, Louis-Philippe Comte de.

England: c. 1785 An engraving portrait of philosopher, statesman, and author Edmund Burke.

Alexander Pope, 1688, 1744, English poet, translator and writer of Neoclassicism

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

Henry Grattan, 1746 - 1820, an Irish politician

FrÄdÄric CHOPIN, 1810-49 Polish composer

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Bohemian German composer.

Charles James Fox, 18th-19th century British Whig politician, c1905. Artist: Unknown

'William Wilberforce', c1800, (c1884). William Wilberforce (1759-1833), British politician and philanthropist educated at Hull Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge. MP, Evangelical Christian and abolitionist of the Slave Trade Act 1807 under reign of George III. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. II.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin

France, Versailles, Portrait of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849)

John Philip Kemble, 1757 - 1823, English actor

Matthew Pratt, William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, c 1774 William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

Portrait of Richard Burbage (1568-1619) an English actor of the Globe Theatre. Dated 16th Century

John Dryden 1631-1700. English poet, dramatist and literary critic. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN - English explorer and sailor. Date: 1786 - 1847

Portrait of Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) an English Biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Painted by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) an English painter and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dated 19th Century

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). American statesman. The seventh President of the United States (1829Ð1837). Colored engraving. 19th century.

John Scott 1st Earl of Eldon 1751 to 1838 Lawyer Judge Statesman and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of William Wilberforce: Black and White Illustration;

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) Bohemian German composer.

Portrait of Antoine Arnauld (1612-1694) by Champaigne, Jean-Baptiste de (1631-1681) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / 1660 / France / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 69x57 / Baroque

Sir Thomas Watson. Photograph.

Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Hamburg, 1809-Leipzig, 1847), German composer and conductor. Painting by Achille Talarico (1837-1902).

Portrait of Anton Van Dyck (1599-1641), (Flemish painter) according to a engraving Portrait of Anton van Dyck (1599-1641), (Flemish painter) according to engraving. Business card (front). Photograph of Gustav Schauer. Draw on albuminum paper. 1860-1890.

Portrait, Josiah Bartlett by Caroline Weeks after Trumbull , Portrait paintings, Governors, Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Portrait of Nikolay Turgenev by anonymous artist, painting, Russia, St Petersburg, Institut of Russian Literature IRLI, 28, 4x21, 7

William Wilberforce (1759-1833) English philanthropist and Abolitionist, Engraving

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1689. Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian considered to be one of the most influential people in human history

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

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Whig statesman and Prime Minister, (1893).Artist: W Roffe

Franz Liszt, composer, virtuos pianist and conductor,artist unknown. Museum: Society Friends of Music, VIENA, AUSTRIA.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from 1782 von Goethe (28 August 1749) (22 March 1832), was a German poet, politician and naturalist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Felix Mendelssohn German Composer (1809-1847) Artist Unknown Illustration

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809-1847, German composer, pianist and organist of Romanticism

Sir William Beechey, 1753-1839, British, Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons, 1794. Oil on canvas.

Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English poet and satirist. From the book Gallery of Portraits, 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

John Locke, 1632-1704, an English philosopher and physician of the Enlightenment

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism

John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet. Poet Laureate 1668. Engraving after portrait by Thomas Hudson (1701-1779).

Sir Joseph Banks. Line engraving by N. Schiavonetti after T. Phillips.

Dr. John W. Francis by Daniel Huntington, 1857

Mark Akenside (1721-1770) English poet and physician. Engraving after portrait by Arthur Pond

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Composer in 1835. Date: 1809 - 1847

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) was a German philosopher and a major figure in German idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.

Johann Peter Hebel, 1760 - 1826, German poet, Protestant theologian and educator, Alemannic dialect poet, digitally optimized

William Pitt the Younger 1759-1806, British Prime Minister, 1783-1801 and 1804-1806, from the book Gallery of Portraits, published 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Desiderius ERASMUS, 1469-1536 Dutch humanist and Renaissance scholar, 19th century miniature

Giacomo LEOPARDI 1798-1837, Italian poet

Denis Diderot.

Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), writer and politician ". Oil on anonymous canvas. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 39967-3 French writer, politician, portrait, oil on canvas

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Jens Juel Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Jens Juel Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660398

Richard WAGNER, 1813-83 German composer

SCHLESINGER, Jacob (1792-1855). Portrait of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 1825. Oil on canvas. GERMANY. BERLIN. Berlin. Staatliche Museen (State Museums).

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Jens Juel Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited according to a painting by Jens Juel Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660402

Portrait of John James Audubon John Syme (1795-1861 British) White House, Washington, D.C., USA

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