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Busts of Historical Figures

Busts in various mediums representing historical figures, highlighting the artistry of sculptors in capturing likenesses and character.

Goethe's Bueste, neo-renaissance, neo-baroque style interiors, Miramare Castle with magnificent view of the Gulf of Trieste, 1870, residence of Maximilian of Austria, princely living culture in the second half of the 19th century, Friuli, Italy, Trieste, Friuli, Italy, Europe
Goethe's Bueste, neo-renaissance, neo-baroque style interiors, Miramare Castle with magnificent view of the Gulf of Trieste, 1870, residence of Maximilian of Austria, princely living culture in the second half of the 19th century, Friuli, Italy, Trieste, Friuli, Italy, Europe
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Broomes Washington in possession of The Phila. Club.. James W. Queen & Company
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Medallion Josiah Wedgwood British 18th century View more. Medallion. Josiah Wedgwood (British, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent 1730-1795 Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent). British, Etruria, Staffordshire. 18th century. Black basalt ware. Ceramics-Pottery
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Charles Henry Verhuel, Count of Sevenaar (). Dated: model c. 1832/1835, cast 1929/1940. Dimensions: overall: 12.7 x 11.4 x 8.9 cm (5 x 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.). Medium: bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.
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Marble Portrait Bust of Richard Payne Knight 1812. Richard Payne Knight was a physiologist, numismatist and collector. One of the founding members of the British Institution. Created by John Bacon the Younger
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William Hayley, Thomas Alphonso Hayley, 1780-1800, British, 1795, Terracotta, Overall: 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 2 inches (10.8 x 8.9 x 5.1 cm), biographer, face, head, man, poet, portrait
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Bust of Franz Joseph I by Caspar Zumbusch 1873. Franz Joseph I (1830  1916) was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary from 2 December 1848 until his death on 21 November 1916. Kaspar Zumbusch (1830  1915), was a German sculptor, born at Herzebrock, Westphalia, who became a pre-eminent sculptor of neo-Baroque monuments in Vienna.
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A. Eiselsberg; Tautenhayn, Josef Hermann (1837-1911); 1930 (1930-00-00-1930-00-00);EISELSBERG, Anton (1860-1939)- iconography, Partage Plus, Tautenhay, Josef-Junior (1868-1962), Men's head (iconogr.), Plankies, Secession (Style)
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BUSTO DE AGUSTIN ARGUELLES EN HIERRO FUNDIDO CON PATINA DE BRONCE, 1880, SITUADO EN EL PASILLO DEL ORDEN DEL DIA. Author: FRANCISCO ELIAS Y VALLEJO (1782-1858). Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-ESCULTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. ARGÜELLES AGUSTIN.
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Portrait of Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BC). Roman general. Modern copy of roman bust. White marble. Frederic Marés Museum. Barcelona, Spain.
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Dantan, Jean Pierre (dit Dantan young) (n.1800-12-28-D.1869-09-06), Charles-Maurice portrait of Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), prince of Bénévent, man d 'State (dummy title), 1833. Bronze. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Caricature of the statesman, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), prince of Bénévent. In bust, long hair, the head pressed into a Redingotte.
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CABEZA VARONIL S I PROCEDE DE ASTA REGIA. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA.
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Seneca (Museo di Napoli) , Antiquities, Sculpture, Philosophers, Dramatists, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection
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Death mask of Anton Bruchner. Josef Anton Bruckner, 1824 - 1896. Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist. From Anton Bruchner, 1824 - 1896, Sein Leben in Bildern (His Life in Pictures)
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Monument to Johann Sebastian Bach with bust, Platz der Demokratie, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, Europe
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Bliżej Kultury
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Relief sculpture, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA
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Giuseppe Capecelatro (1744 - 1836 ) Italian politician and Catholic archbishop . He was archbishop of Taranto 1778-1816 . Bust by Rauch 1810
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Waldorf Astoria. 1935. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division
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Louis-Aimé Lejeune (1884-1969). "Bust of Ernest Cognacq" (1839-1928). Sculpture (marble). 1928. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. 101729-12 Bust, portrait
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Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), said Dantan the young. Serious portrait of Vaudevilliste Félix-Auguste Duvert (1795-1876). Terracotta patinated plaster. 1844. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Dramatic author, Writer, Patina Platre, Serious Portrait, Terracotta, French Vaudevillist
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Sculpture of polar explorer Oscar Wisting, member of the Norwegian South Pole Antarctic expedition, near Frammuseum, Museum island Bygdoy, Oslo, Norway, Europe
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Head of Julius Caesar. Artist: Unknown
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Portrait of Alexander Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874), Political Man Melt, marine Étienne. "Portrait of Alexander Auguste Ledru-Rollin (1807-1874), politician". Bronze.
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Bust of Hellen Keller, blind activist at Ivy Green, Helen Keller birthplace and home, Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA
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Louis XV probably 19th century After Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger French. Louis XV 204012
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Marble bust of John Stone (1818-1899), Town Clerk of Bath (1860-1898)
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Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificient (1449-1492). Italian patrician and humanist, ruler of Florence from 1469 to 1492. Bust (end 15th c.). Renaissance art. Sculpture on marble. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery).
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Profile of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Memorial Washington D.C.
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Street vendor ca. 1750-60 Mennecy François Barbin (French, ca. 1689-1765) was forced to close his ceramic factory at Villeroy in 1748 due to the increasing political influence of the newly established Vincennes factory1 that had received a royal privilege for the manufacture of porcelain three years earlier. In 1749, Barbin and his wife purchased a house in the nearby town of Mennecy, and in the following year they established a new porcelain factory “ditte de Villeroy établie au village de Mennecy.”2 As the factories at both Villeroy and Mennecy were run by the Barbin family, the two enterprises have traditionally been treated as a single entity, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the products of the earlier factory from that of the successor operation at Mennecy. Both factories used the same mark consisting of the letters DV, since they were under the protection of the duc de Villeroy. Genevieve Le Duc has argued persuasively that the mark generally appears in painted f
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Europe, France, Dordogne, Hautefort. Bust of a nobleman at Hautefort Castle, Chateau de Hautefort. (Editorial Use Only)
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Marqueste, Laurent-Honoré (n.1848-06-12-D.1920-04-05), bust of Victor Hugo, 1901. Plaster. Houses of Victor Hugo Paris - Guernsey.
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Jean-Marie Harlé, Père. Dated: model c. 1832/1835, cast 1929/1950. Dimensions: overall: 12.1 x 14.6 x 11.1 cm (4 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 4 3/8 in.). Medium: bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: HONORÉ DAUMIER.
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Bust of elderly man, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, national museum of Roman art, Merida, Extremadura, Spain 1st century AD
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Bust of Jean Baptiste Bideau,Castries,St. Lucia,Caribbean
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LEBOEUF, Louis-Joseph (n.1823-D.1874), Victor Hugo (registered title (letter)), 1864-05. Bronze. Houses of Victor Hugo Paris - Guernsey.
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Portrait on the grave of Peter von Hess, German painter, 1792 - 1871, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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18th century copy of a Roman Bust of Emperor Titus Caesar; Warsaw, Royal palace
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Camerino (Italia, Marche - provncia di Macerata), Scultore Italia settentrionale (Rocco da Vicenza), Busto di Giulio Cesare Da Varano, secondo decennio del XVI secolo, proveniente dal Palazzo Ducale
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Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869), known as Dantan young. Portrait-sir of the priest and thinker, Claude-Franc Lamennais (1782-1854). Terracious patinated plaster, round-bump. 1838. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 52165-11 Catholic, Chretian Christian, ecclesiastics, French thinker, pattero patina, portrait-metering, priest, round-bump, terrestrial
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Pyotr Schmidt (1867-1905). Lieutenant of the Black Sea Fleet. Revolutionary and a leader of the Sevastopol Uprising, 1905. Bust. Museum of Black Sea Fleet. Sebastopol. Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine.
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09/25/2013. National Library. Madrid. Spain. Presentation of the exhibition three hundred years of the Royal Spanish Academy. Thirteen terracotta heads preparatory to the images in the Academy's edition of "Life and Deeds of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote", 1773Photo: Saint Bernard. archdc Barrenechea.
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Portrait cameo of Witold Pintowski (ca. 1841-1863). Bianchini, Gaetano (Florencja ; firma gliptyczna i kupiecka ; fl. ca 1850--1900)
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ENRIQUE CASAS VILA - 1985 - BRONCE - 0,25x0,23x0,47 - Nº INVENTARIO 2345. Author: LEONARDO LUCARINI (1946-). Location: SENADO-ESCULTURA. MADRID. SPAIN. ENRIQUE CASAS VILLA (1943-1984).
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Portrait relief Detail from the façade of The Basilica of the Holy Blood in Burg Square, Bruges. Immediately next to the Bruges City Hall 1376.
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Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800-1869) said Dantan the young. Caricature of the Captain of the National Guard, Adolphe Wenger. Terracotta patinated plaster. 1845. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 51840-2 Captain, French, National Guard, Officer, Patina Patre, Laughter, Terracotta, Caricature
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Leendert Bolle, Mal for commemorative medal, high relief, inside circle breastpiece Erasmus, with left 1536 - 1936, mold casting sculpture gypsum, signed LB Erasmus Rotterdam
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Bust of Alexander Pushkin, National Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa
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Ceramics of Niderwiller: Louis XVI handing over to Franklin of treaties (independence of America) ", Ceramics of the 18th century. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 25401-1 Ceramic Niderwiller, a American state man, American independence, king France, treats
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Tadpole. "Portrait of Alexandre Dumas Father (1803-1870), writer". Polychrome plaster. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 72099-49 Bust, French writer, polychrome plaster, portrait
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Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary Mask in gold foil embossing. Found in Tomb IV at the Acropolis. Mycenae. Dated in 1580 BCE. National Archaeological Museum. Athens.
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. To make this small bust - it is half life-size - the sculptor had to resort to all kinds of tricks with a mirror. Van der Schardt did not portray himself frontally, but with his head turned sideways, as if to avoid looking at the viewer. The nude upper torso alludes to sculpture fromClassical antiquity.
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Germany, Munich, Bust of actor Helmut Fischer in art foundry
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Portrait of Malesherbes (1721-1794), Advisor to Parliament, President of the Paris Aid Court Jean-Baptiste Defernex (1729-1783). Portrait of malesherbes (1721-1794), Councilor in Parliament, President of the Paris Aid Court. Bust on peddate. Bronze, 1886.
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Bust of Count Lennart Bernadotte of Wisborg, by artist Waldemar Schroeder, Mainau, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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R.R. Rivalta's "Columbus"
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Thomas Eakins. Artist: Samuel Aloysius Murray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1869-1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Dimensions: 9 x 9 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (22.9 x 23.5 x 21.6 cm). Date: 1907; cast 1923.Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an instructor at the Art Students' League of Philadelphia during the winter of 1886-87, when Murray enrolled as a student. The two men shared a studio from 1892 to 1900 and portrayed many of the same people in their works. In this diminutive statuette, Eakins is shown seated cross-legged on the floor in the process of painting The Agnew Clinic (1889; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), a canvas so large it could not fit on an easel. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Bust of Karl Benz, Ladenburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe
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Medallion depicting Hippocrates in the pharmacy at the Alcazar, Jerez de la Frontera
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Albertinum
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Norway, Troms, Tromso. Outside of the Polar Museum or Polarmuseet, a memorial to the exploits of the city's favourite son Roald Amundsen.
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José de Charmoy (1879-1914). "Portrait of Ernest Renan". Patinated plaster. Paris, Museum of Romantic Life. French writer, pattero patina, portrait, head, face
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'Left Hand of Emperor Alexander II'. Russia, 1881. Dimensions: 25x37x16 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
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Plaster painted bust of L.J.M. Daguerre created by Jean-Auguste Barre in 1853, depicting the head, facial features, and sculptural details.
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Portrait relief of Frédéric Chopin in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Clésinger, Auguste (1814-1883)
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Waxwork statue of Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890); Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life
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