Historic Composers and Poets Portraits

Black and white portraits of notable historical composers and poets. Features elegant attire and classic hairstyles, conveying a refined artistic spirit.

FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician and composer Date: 1810 - 1849

Fryderyk Chopin (1810 Żelazowa Wola 1849 Paris) Composer and Pianist Fryderyk Chopin at the Age of 18 (Accering to a Family Portrait) Monogramista L.C.

FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician and composer Date: 1810 - 1849

Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de.

Ebenezer Elliott, 1781 - 1849. English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer for his leading the fight to repeal the Corn Laws. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c. 1880.

GUSTAV ALBRECHT LORTZING German musician, best known for 'The tsar and the carpenter'. Date: 1801 - 1851

George Wilson, 1808-1870. English political activist, known as chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England, published c. 1880.

Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, 16 December 1775 - 8 October 1834, French composer, mainly of operas / Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, 16. Dezember 1775 - 8. Oktober 1834, französischer Komponist, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Portrait of Hubert van Hove. .

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, 22 February or 1 shore clingfish (1810), 17 October 1849, was a Polish composer, pianist and piano pedagogue, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century master copy

Alphonse Lamartine (1790-1869) French politician, writer and Romantic poet. Lithograph, Paris, c1840.

Antoine Christophe Merlin (1762-1833), known as Merlin de Thionville. French politician. On 4 September 1791 he was elected deputy for the department of Moselle to the Legislative Assembly. In September 1792 he was re-elected deputy for Moselle to the National Convention. He took part in the Thermidorian Reaction that led to the fall of Robespierre and was appointed to the Committee of General Security on 31 July 1794. Member of the Council of Five Hundred under the Directory. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Giachino Rossini (1792-1868). Italian composer. Engraving, Nuestro Siglo, 1883.

Humphry Davy

George IV (1762-1830), son of George III, Prince Regent from 1811due to his father's illness. King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1820. Member of the Hanoverian dynasty. Wood engraving c1900.

Portrait of Eugène Sue (1804-1857) a French novelist. Dated 19th Century

Belgrano, Manuel (1770-1820). Intelectual, economista, periodista, político, abogado y militar de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata, actual Argentina. Participó de la Revolución de Mayo y de la Guerra de Independencia de la Argentina, y es el creador de la Bandera de Argentina. Prócer militar y político argentino. Dibujo de 1900. MANUEL JOSÉ JOAQUÍN DEL CORAZÓN DE JESÚS BELGRANO.

John Pyke Hullah (1812 -1884), English composer and teacher of music, pictured here in 1842. Date: 1842

baron LIONEL NATHAN de ROTHSCHILD Founder of the English branch of the international banking house Date: 1808 - 1879

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude Comte.

Michel Faraday

Joseph Le Bon (Guislain-François-Joseph Le Bon) (1765-1795). French politician. Deputy of the National Convention (1 July 1793 to 16 October 1795). Portrait. Engraving. History.

Portrait of Joseph Hume, Scottish surgeon and Radial MP. Illustration from Cassell's History of England, Vol VII. New Edition published Circ 1873-5.

Portrait of Henry William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. Illustration from Cassell's History of England, Vol VII. New Edition published Circ 1873-5.

Joseph Arnold. Pen drawing by W. J. W., 1849.

LOPEZ , JOAQUIN MARIA. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. 1798-1855. GRABADO DE N . GONZALEZ.

Portrait of Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon. Whig politician, British MP, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839. Illustration from Cassell's History of England, Vol VII. New Edition published Circ 1873-5.

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude Comte.

Portrait of Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) a British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java and Governor-General of Bencoolen. Dated 19th century

Portrait of Salustiano de Olózaga Almandoz (Oyón 1805 - Enghien-les-Bains 1873). Spanish politician, lawyer and writer. Knight of the Order of the Gol

Portrait of prince Adam Czartoryski by Anonymous artist, Lithograph, Private Collection

Frederic Chopin (1809-1849) Polish composer and pianist who joined other emigrees in Paris in 1831. He took French citizenship in 1835. Engraving.

Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) American Lawyer & Poet Stock Montage, Inc.

Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, 1807 - 1874, a French politician and Minister of the Interior

John Wayles Eppes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left | Library of Congress

Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Dated 19th Century

Collin, Heinrich Josef von.

Portrait of Élie-Louis Decazes, The Duke of Decazes (1780-1860). Dated 19th Century

Sir John Herschel, astronomer and scientist, 1810s. Artist: Gaspare Gabrielli.

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, November 21, 1768, February 12, 1834, was a German Protestant theologian, classical philologist, philosopher, publicist, state theorist, church politician and educator, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Marc David Alba Lasource, 1763-1793. Girondist deputy and President of the National Convention. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc

Henry Tufton, eleventh and last Earl of Thanet (1775-1849) by Richard Cosway (1742-1821), a leading English portrait painter of the Regency era, noted for his miniatures.

Jean Coralli (1779-1854). French dancer and choreographer. Ballet Master of the Paris Opera. Engraving in Great Ballet Prints of the Romantic Era. 19th century.

Andre Massena, 1st Duc de Rivoli (1758-1817). French military commander during Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Portrait.

Robert Fulton 1765-1815 American engineer and inventor of the steamship, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Johannes Philippus Lange. .

Juan Alvarez de Mendizábal (1790-1853). Spanish politician and financier who had great importance in the Spanish liberal Revolution. He was appointed Minister of Finance in July 1835 by the Count of Toreno, from which he promoted the confiscation of the confiscation of Catholic Church's properties. Portrait. Engraving. "Espartero: su vida militar, política, descriptiva y anecdótica" (Espartero: his military, political, descriptive and anecdotal life). Volume I, 1879.

Robert Southey (12 August 1774 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843

François René Auguste Victome de Chteaubriand. Achille Devéria (French, 1800-1857). Lithograph;

George James Agar Ellis Baron Dover 1797 to 1833 English man of letters Engraved by E Scriven after T Philips From the book National Portrait Gallery volume II published c 1835

George Back (1797-1878) British Arctic explorer and navigator. Member of John Franklins expeditions of 1818, 1819-1822, and 1824-1827. Engraving, London, c1880.

Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, engraved when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the Lower House in the Derby Administration. Date: 1852

Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet, 25 January 1770, 23 January 1844, English reformist politician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Robert Fulton 1765-1815 American engineer and inventor of the steamship Engraving from a 19th century print

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW American writer, best known for his 'Hiawatha' and for the line 'ships that pass in the night'... as a young man. with his autograph Date: 1807 - 1882

Frédéric François Chopin (Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin) (Zelawowa Wola, Varsovia, 1810-París, 1849). Compositor y pianista polaco. Grabado de 1890.

George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, c. 1725 - 1758. Brigadier General in the British Army. He was considered amongst the best officers in the army. He was killed during a skirmish with the Fr

Robert Fulton 1765 - 1815. American engineer and inventor of the steamship. From the book Gallery of Historical Portraits published c.1880.

El compositor alemán Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), a la edad de 31 años.

Portrait of George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) an English poet. Dated 19th Century

Theodore Hook

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806), British statesman, 1924. Artist: Unknown

William Conyngham Plunket 1st Baron Plunket 1764 to 1854 Irish politician and lawyer Lord Chancellor of Ireland Engraved by J Jenkins after H Hamilton From the book The National Portrait Gallery Volume IV published c1820

Kondraty Fedorovich Ryleev. He was a Russian poet, publisher, and a leader of the Decembrist Revolt, which attempted to overthrow the Russian monarchy in 1825.

Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) an English poet, literary critic and philosopher. Dated 19th Century

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870). French writer. Romanticism and Historical fiction literary movement. Engraving. 19th century. Colored.

Charles Floyd ca. 1804 Benjamin Trott American Charles Floyd (1782-1804) was born in Kentucky, lived most of his life in Virginia, and died on the Lewis & Clark expedition.. Charles Floyd. Benjamin Trott (ca. 1770-1843). American. ca. 1804. Watercolor on ivory

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 1710 1736, Italian composer., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, 1786-1826, German composer, conductor and pianist

William Lamb, 2nd. Viscount Melbourne, 1779-1848. British statesman and Prime Minister, 1834, 1835-1841. From the portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Chateaubriand, Francois Rene, Vicomte de (1768-1848). French writer and member of the French Academy (1811). Nineteenth-century colored engraving.

Kalkbrenner, Friedrich Wilhelm .

Captain Frederick Marryat 1792 to 1848, English writer, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Franz SCHUBERT, 1797-1828 Austrian composer (detail)

Portrait of Sir Robert Peel, British politician who served two terms as Prime Minister of the United KIngdom. Founder of the Metropolitan Police Service. Illustration from Cassell's History of England, Vol VII. New Edition published Circ 1873-5.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) - English romantic poet Date: 1819

THOMAS CAMPBELL Scottish poet Date: 1777 - 1844

Benjamin DISRAELI (1804-1881) Engraving published 1844

Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1768 - 1848, a French writer, politician and diplomat. Engraving by Paris. 19th century. Color.

Sir William Jackman HOOKER, 1785-1865, botanist and first director of Kew Gardens, pencil 1812, engraved by Mrs Dawson Turner, 1813

Italy, Milan, portrait of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolo Nicolo Paganini

Chateaubriand, François Vicomte de.

'Albany Fonblanque, journalist', c19th century. Artist: Unknown

George Hamilton-Gordon; 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1852-1855

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, 1786 - 1826, a German composer, conductor and pianist

San Francisco, California: c. 1835 A portrait of Francisco de Haro who was the first Mexican Alcalde or mayor of the village of Yerba Buena that later grew to be San Francisco.

Thomas Telford (1757-1834) Scottish civil engineer, born at Westkirk, Langholm, Scotland. Apprenticed to a stonemason at the age of 14, he became the eminent civil engineer of his generation and was called the Colossus of Roads for the improvements he made to 1,000 miles of roads. Among his works are the Ellesmere Canal which included the Chirk viaduct and the Pont Cysylte aqueduct, the Caledonian Canal, improvements to the London to Holyhead road which included the Menai Suspension Bridge, and St Katherine's Docks, London. Engraving from 'Lives of the Engineers' by Samuel Smiles (London, 1862).

Jean-Paul Marat, 1743 -1793. French physician, scientist, radical journalist and politician during French Revolution. From a print by Pierre Michel Alix after the painting by Jean François Garnerey.

George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen 1784 to 1860 Scottish Tory Peelite and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 to 1855, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

THOMAS DYKE ACLAND (the elder) Statesman and philanthropist, as a young man. Date: 1787 - 1871

John Macculloch (1773-1835) Scottish geologist, chemist and physician. President of the Royal Geological Society 1816-1817. From 'Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison' by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving.

Michael Faraday 1791 to 1867 English chemist and physicist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, FRS (6 July 1781 - 5 July 1826) was a British statesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore (now the city-state of the Republic of Singapore). He is often described as the 'Father of Singapore'. He was also heavily involved in the conquest of the Indonesian island of Java from Dutch and French military forces during the Napoleonic Wars and contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. He was also a writer and a historian who wrote the book ' History of Java' (1817).

Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (1794-1878) on engraving from 1837. British jurist and Conservative politician. Engraved by Edwards after a painting by Holmes and published by G.Virtue.

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein, 15 May 1773, 11 June 1859, Austrian diplomat, politician and statesman, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Portrait of George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic Movement. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Felix Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, Watercolour on paper, 1829, Romanticism, 1780-1862, Germany, Berlin, Staatliche Museen,

Tadeusz Kosciuszko (1746-1817). Polish general and statesman. National hero in Poland and Belarus for his leadership of a national insurrection, and in the United States for his role in the American Revolution. Portrait. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Masson. History of Poland, by Charles Foster. Panorama Universal, 1840.

Portrait of François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) a French writer, politician, diplomat, and historian. Dated 19th Century

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Romantic poet of Scottish descent.

Portrait of Kaspar Hauser, circa 1812 - 1833

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