Historical Portraits

Engravings of distinguished figures from the 18th century, featuring detailed outfits, expressions, and poses that convey the period's attire and social status.

Portrait of J Roquette, physician in Haarlem, Holland, print maker: Hendrik Schwegman, (mentioned on object), Haarlem, 1805, paper, h 189 mm × w 149 mm

Park, Mungo .

Störckk, Anton Freiherr.

In the flat, Thomas.

Portrait of Dr. Jeremiah Donovan, an army surgeon 1809 James Hopwood. Portrait of Dr. Jeremiah Donovan, an army surgeon. James Hopwood (British, Beverley ca. 1752-1819 London). 1809. Etching. J. Stratford (British, active London, 1792-1813). Prints

Kléber, Jean Baptiste.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, 23 January 1751, 4 June 1792, was a German-Baltic writer, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

James McHenry, signed the Declaration of Independence, served in the Continential Army during the American Revolution, and attended the Constitutional Convention in 1778. He was Secretary of War in the Washington and Adams Administrations. Fort McHenry was named in his honor. 1803 engraving by Charles Balthazar Saint-Mémin (BSLOC_2019_4_153)

Bust of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in oval frame, portrait from his period as first consul of France, Portrait of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte 1st consul , print maker: Johannes Christiaan Bendorp, (mentioned on object), unknown, Netherlands, 1801, paper, etching, h 231 mm × w 140 mm

Alfieri, Vittorio Graf.

William Hogarth (1697 Ð1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, and engraver. Engraving. "The Iberian Illustration, 1888".

Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist, naturalist and poet, 1708-1777. After a portrait by Emanuel Handmann. Steel engraving by Lizars from Sir William Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, 1843.

Portrait of Jacques Necker, J.N. Boillet, c. 1789 print print maker: Francepublisher: Genève paper historical persons. ornament ~ medallion

Desportes, François .

John Flaxman, James Thomson, 1800-1883, British, after unknown artist, ( J. Derby ), 1823, Engraving

Portrait of Thomas Paine, American philosopher, at his desk, Portrait of Thomas Paine, print maker: Theodorus de Roode, (mentioned on object), publisher: Adriaan Pietersz. Loosjes, (mentioned on object), print maker: Netherlands, publisher: Haarlem, 1792, paper, etching, h 174 mm × w 113 mm

Line Drawing. Portrait de Fragonard.

José Moñino y Redondo, I conde de Floridablanca (1728-1808). Político español que ejerció el cargo de secretario de Estado entre 1777 y 1792 presidiendo la Junta Suprema Central, creada en 1808. Ilustración por Miranda. Grabado por Hortigosa. Detalle. Historia del Levantamiento, Guerra y Revolución de España, por el Conde de Toreno. Madrid,1851.

Portrait of the artist Dirk van Langendijk with palette, brushes and drawing, Portrait of Dirk van Langendijk, print maker: Joannes Bemme, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Joannes Bemme, (mentioned on object), after: Johan Bernard Scheffer, (mentioned on object), c. 1805, paper, etching, h 243 mm × w 172 mm

Fischer, Gottlob Nathanael .

Captain James Cook F.R.S. prints, engravings, works on paper

Playke, Gottlieb August.

Marquis de La Rochejaquelein. Unknown, photographer about 1865 A photograph of a painted portrait of Henri du Vergier, count of La Rochejaquelein. He is depicted as an older man with curly hair and sideburns. He is posed with one hand tucked into his vest. (Verso, mount) upper center, black ink: "Marquis de La rochejacquelein sic written on top of same pencil inscription"; (Recto, album page) lower center, below image, black ink on white paper label: "E/42 space M. le marquis de la Rochejaquelein/(actuel).";

Portrait of Pieter Paulus. Bust portrait of the lawyer and politician Pieter Paulus.

Portrait of Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839), Quenedey, Edmé (1756-1830)

Anonymous / 'Male Portrait'. Ca. 1800. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Visser Bender, Joannes Pieter, Haarlem, Portrait of Izaak Jansz. de Wit, verso - stamped, Portrait of the Dutch printmaker Izaak Jansz. de Wit., print, prints, height 176 mm, width 115 mm, Dutch, 1785-11-09 - 1813-12-09, print maker, printmaker, 1809 - 1813, paper, papier, etching, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design by

Charles IV (1748-1819). King of Spain (1788-1808), so-called el Cazador (the Hunter). Portrait. Engraving by Masson. Lithographed by Magín Pujadas. Historia General de España, by Modesto Lafuente. Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1879. Author: Antoine Masson (1636-1700). French artist.

Francisco Cagigal de la Vega (Francisco Antonio Cagigal de la Vega) (1691-1777). Spanish military officer. Governor and Captain General of the island of Cuba (1747-1760), governor of the city of Santiago de Cuba and interim viceroy of New Spain (1760). Portrait. Drawing by Llanta. Lithography. Crónica General de España, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Antilles, 1871. Author: Santiago Llanta y Guerin (fl. 1866-1872). Paris-born lithographer who worked in Madrid.

Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf .

Portrait of August Hendrik de Melander, Dirk Sluyter, After Harmanus Langerveld, 1828 print Portrait of August Hendrik de Melander, Grandmaster of Freemason Lodge "La Bien Aimée". A praise under the portrait. print maker: Amsterdamafter drawing by: AmsterdamAmsterdampublisher: The Hague paper etching / engraving

Portrait of Johann Kaspar Lavater, print maker: Heinrich Pfenninger, (mentioned on object), Heinrich Pfenninger, (mentioned on object), 1759 - 1815, paper, etching, h 127 mm - w 89 mm

Bust of pastor Carel Willem Stronck in oval frame decorated at bottom with two olive branches and curtain pushed aside in left upper corner, Portrait of pastor Carel Willem Stronck, print maker: Johannes Christiaan Bendorp, (mentioned on object), intermediary draughtsman: Pieter Fontijn, (mentioned on object), publisher: Abraham Blussé & Zoon, (mentioned on object), Dordrecht, 1817, paper, etching, h 180 mm × w 109 mm

Amsterdam, Duim, Izaak, Meyer, Pieter, Bosch, Bernardus the (writer), Laguy, Joseph, Houbraken, Jacob, Portrait of Lucas Pater, verso - stamped, Portrait of the poet Lucas Pater sitting in an armchair at a table, holding a writing quill in his hand. In front of him is a sheet of paper and an inkwell containing another writing quill. In the background is a bookcase. Below the portrait a six-line verse in Dutch., print, prent, prints, prenten, height 188 mm, width 140 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1698-12-25 - 1780-11-14, print maker, printmaker, 1774 - 1780, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process), 1738 - 1798, after, after painting by, 1709-03-28 - 1786-10-27, writer, Publication (Event), Publicatie, 1718 - 1781, publisher

Pasquale Paoli, 1725 - 1807. Full name: Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli. Corsican patriot who helped lead resistance movements against Genoese and French rule of his island. After a painting by L

Print made by Samuel Freeman, 1773-1857, British, Robert Cleveley, Esqr. Marine Painter to his R. H., The Prince of Wales and Marine Draftsman to his R. H. The Duke of Clarence, 1810. Stipple engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper mounted on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper.

Charles IV (1748-1819). King of Spain (1788-1808), so-called el Cazador (the Hunter). Portrait. Engraving by Masson. Lithographed by Magín Pujadas. Historia General de España, by Modesto Lafuente. Volume IV. Published in Barcelona, 1879. Author: Antoine Masson (1636-1700). French artist.

Mans portrait, in oval, to the left. Draughtsman: Theodorus de Roode. Dating: 1746 - 1793. Measurements: h 133 mm × w 103 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Portrait of Pieter Plas. .

Portrait of Jacob van Strij. Draughtsman: Jan Veth. After Pieter Christoffel Wonder. Dating: 1874 - 1925. Measurements: h 139 mm × w 116 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Christoph Martin Wieland, Historical Illustration from Otto von Leixner: Illustrated History of German Literature, Leipzig and Berlin 1880, Germany, Europe

Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823),

Jean Baptiste Isabey, Hubert Robert, 1787 Hubert Robert

Lithograph by Hippolyte-Louis Garnier depicting a portrait of Béranger, created between 1820 and 1855, showing facial features and detailed representation of the subject.

Portrait of the lecointe architect

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), Swiss Poet, Writer, Philosopher, Theologian, Book Illustration from Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910

The person portrayed is wearing a toga and two knighthoods on his chest. Beneath the portrait his signature, Portrait of Cornelis Anne denden Tex, print maker: Johann Peter Berghaus, (mentioned on object), printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, (mentioned on object), Leiden, 20-Jun-1850, paper, h 310 mm - w 258 mm

Portrait of Gerard van Nijmegen, Anthonie van den Bos, in or after 1808 print Bust of the Rotterdam painter Gerard van Nijmegen. paper etching

John Dixon, ca. 1740-1811, Irish, The Right Honorable Charles Townsend, Esquire, Late Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1770. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper.

Stäudlin, Carl Friedrich Publisher: Crusius, Siegfried Loverbechtichner: Bornemann, Johann Güntherstecher: Lips, Johann Heinrichverlagsort: Leipzig

Tindal, Matthew .

Wyrsch, Johann Melchior .

Mussbust in oval.

Francois Denis Tronchet (1726-1806). French jurist. He was one of the lawyers who defended King Louis XVI (1754-1793) during his judgment. He participated in the writing of the French civil code. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Haydn, Josef.

Portrait of Jacob Ernst Marcus. Portrait bust of Jacob Ernst Marcus with hat and cloak.

Domenico Maria Servidori / 'Self-Portrait'. Ca. 1775. Grey wash, Pencil, Pencil strokes on parchment. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Kotzebue, August .

Captain Vincenzo Lunardi, Italian balloonist pioneer. Woodblock engraving by H. Rousseau after E. Thomas from Louis Figuier's "Les Merveilles de la Science: Aerostats" (Marvels of Science: Air Balloons), Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1868.

Portrait of Dominique-VivantDenon. Artist: Zéphirin Félix Jean Marius Belliard, French, 1798-1843Printer: François-Séraphin Delpech, French, 1778-1825

Giovanni Alberti, Italian painter, poet and art critic, 15581601. Known for his perspective painting (quadratura) in landscapes. Brother of Cherubino Alberti. Copperplate engraving by Carlo Gregori after Giovanni Domenico Campiglia after a self portrait by the artist from Francesco Moucke's Museo Florentino (Museum Florentinum), Serie di Ritratti de Pittori (Series of Portraits of Painters) stamperia Mouckiana, Florence, 1752-62.

Portrait of Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, print maker: Jan Veth, (mentioned on object), 1893, paper, h 425 mm - w 320 mm

James Peale ca. 1788 Charles Willson Peale American Charles Willson Peale wrote in his diary for August 25, 1788, that he began this work but that it was largely painted by his brother James (q.v.).. James Peale. Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741-1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). American. ca. 1788. Watercolor on ivory

Captain Cook. James Cook (1728-1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to Australia. UK. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Portrait of Gerard van Nijmegen. Bust of the Rotterdam painter Gerard van Nijmegen.

Johann Wendt. Lithograph by F. Jentzen, 183-, after F. Krüger.

Portrait of Miguel Mateo Maldonado y Cabrera (1695-1768) painter from the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Dated 18th Century

Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749 11 January 1801) was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school. He wrote more than eighty operas during his lifetime, including his masterpiece, Il matrimonio segreto (1792).

Judge, Johann Paul Friedrich Paler: Schröder, Johann Heinrichstecher: Netz, Friedrich Wilhelm

Portrait of Bernardus de Bosch, pastor and poet in Diemen, The Netherlands, print maker: Reinier Vinkeles (I), (mentioned on object), Reinier Vinkeles (I), (mentioned on object), publisher: Martinus de Bruyn, (mentioned on object), Amsterdam, 1782 - 1816, paper, etching, engraving, h 290 mm × w 212 mm

Schadow, Gottfried .

Engraving.

Hans Axel Count von Fersen, 4 September 1755, 20 shore clingfish (1810), was a Swedish statesman and a favourite of the French Queen Marie Antoinette,...

John Brown. Photogravure after Sir G. Reid, 1881.

Portrait of Jules Gabriel Janin. Drouard (Paryż ; drukarnia ; fl. 1824-1861), printing house, Chenay, Paul (1818-1906), graphic artist

Kléber, Jean Baptiste.

F. A. W. Miquel

Portrait of Willem V, Hendrik Pothoven, after Pieter Frederik de la Croix, 1735 - 1807 drawing Portrait of Willem V, Prince of Oranje-Nassau. Design for a print. paper. chalk brush historical persons

Portrait of Nikolay Mordvinov by Anonymous artist, Oil on canvas, 1826-1829, Russia, St Petersburg, Institut of Russian Literature IRLI, 62x53

Mungo Park. Stipple engraving by W. Ridley, 1799, after H. Edridge.

Kléber.

St. John Viscount Bolingbroke, Illustration, Ridpath's History of the World, Volume III, by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., Merrill & Baker Publishers, New York, 1897

Dunker, Balthasar Anton.

Johann Elias Haid, 1739-1809, German, West, Geschichts mahler, 1774. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper.

Johann Arnold Heise, 1819. Friedrich Carl Gröger (German, 1766-1838). Lithograph;

Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt. Line engraving by G. A. Lehmann, 1808.

Dordrecht, Backer, Hilmar Johannes, Netherlands, Neuman, Johan Heinrich, Portrait of Johann Michael Franz Birnbaum, verso - stamped, The portrayed person wears a toga and a knight's order. Below the portrait are the name and titles., print, engraving, prints, engravings, This portrait was made and printed in the printing office of the undersigned in Dordrecht., Dordt. January 8, 1841, HJ Backer, recto lower left - handwritten, Submitted to the municipal government of the city of Dordrecht, ..., Dordrecht January 8, recto lower right - handwritten, height 460 mm, width 327 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1841 - 1841, paper, papier, chine collé, lithography (technique), Work conception, Dutch, 1819-01-07 - 1898-04-14, after a design by, 1804-09-17 - 1845-05-01, printer, drukker, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Hormayr-Hartenburg, Josef Freiherr.

Kitaibel, Paul .

Danton.

Anthony Butler 1782 Charles Willson Peale American. Anthony Butler. Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741-1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). American. 1782. Watercolor on ivory

Edward Fisher, 1722-1785, British, Nathaniel Hone, between 1758 and 1782. Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper.

Jesse Root, member of the Continental Congress, 1885, Philadelphia, Etchings

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