Historical Portraits and Prints

A collection of historical portraits featuring individuals in ornate attire, with backgrounds that include poems and artistic embellishments, conveying a sense of dignity and history.

Germany, Edward.

Doria, Andrea.

Grass, Michael .

A man, dressed in armor and holding the hilt of a sword, sits at a table, Seated man in armor with sword, print maker: Christiaan Wilhelmus Moorrees, (mentioned on object), Netherlands, 1811 - 1867, paper, etching, h 157 mm × w 113 mm

Portrait of Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) aged 62 by Hogenberg, Frans (1535-1590) / Private Collection / 1574 / Flanders / Copper engraving, watercolour / Portrait /Cartography

Stephen Bathory. Holewiński, Józef (1848-1917), graphic artist, Witkiewicz, Stanisław (1851-1915), draughtsman, cartoonist, Kłosy (Warszawa ; drzeworytnia ; 1865-1890), workshop

This portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1448-1529) was painted by Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio da UrbinoRaphaelwas an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Castiglione, Count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. Castiglione wrote Il Cortegiano or The Book of the Courtier, a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier.

Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert; Abraham Blomaert. Portrait of the Dutch painter Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), depicted by half with left hand at his chest and in right hand a pencil.

Plato.

Heinrich IV., King of Castile and León.

Portrait of Prof. Willem Stoeder, Jan Veth, 1874 - 1925 drawing paper. pencil. chalk historical persons

Stern, Abraham Jacob.

Denny, Sir Anthony .

Philip II, king of Spain. Habsburgs coat of arms above the portrait. The print has a French poem as a caption about his life.

Artamon Sergeyevich Matveyev (1625-1682) was a Russian statesman, diplomat and reformer.

House, John.

Gardiner, Stephen Maler: Werff, Adriaen van Derstecher: Grace, Pieter Stevens van

Rat, Geoffroy.

Portrait of Marten Rijckaert, Edme de Boulonois, After Anthony Van Dyck, 1682 print Brussels paper engraving historical persons. portrait, self-portrait of artist

Wooked by horse, Martin.

Andrzej II Górka (Around 1534 1583) Kasztelan Międzyrzecki, Lutheran, Protector of the reformation (Accering to the Seal) Matejko, Jan (1838 1893), Zabłocki, Feliks (1846 1874), Lewental, Salomon (Franciszek Salezy) (1841 1902)

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573). Italian architect. Portrait. Engraving.

Portret van Theodor Zwinger, Antoine Louis Romanet, 1752 - 1810 print Numbered at the top right: 5. paper engraving / etching historical persons. scholar, philosopher

Aeregate, thodiotors the sainener: Compreret, adriitneneen-javie-javiers: Padninger, Heartrich

Juan Ponce de Leon (1460-1521) Spanish Explorer Late 19th Century engraving

España. Domènec Badia Leblich (1766-1818), espía, aventurero y arabista catalán conocido como Ali-Bey el Abbassí. Grabado de 1860. Author: Eusebi Planas Franquesa.

Portret van dichter Giovanni della Casa. .

Bliżej Kultury Schuler, Kunst Verlag Creuzbauer in Carlsruhe

Portret Van Admiraal Vetter Pisani, Carlo Rampoldi, After Teodoro Matteini, 1785 - 1885 print Italy paper engraving historical persons. commander-in-chief, admiral

Affry, Guillaume d '.

Charles-Francois Gounod, a French composer, political caricature, 1882, by Alphonse Hector Colomb pseudonym B. Moloch, a French caricaturist

Musculus, Wolfgang.

Magalhaes, Fernao de.

'Portrait of the Duke of Guise (Claude de Lorraine, Duc de Guise)'. France, circa 1546. Dimensions: 28x19 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Anonymous Artist, mid-16th century.

Eibenschütz, Jonathan .

Billnis of the Basce of Gama

Portrait bust in oval to left of Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman, bareheaded Below the portrait, a plaque states the name of the person portrayed, Portrait of Axel Oxenstierna, print maker: Jan de Leeuw, (mentioned on object), 1704, paper, engraving, h 150 mm × w 97 mm

Portrait of Jacopo Bassano. Portrait of artist Jacopo Bassano.

Portrait of Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Anonymous, Anonymous, 1556 print paper historical persons

Enckevirt, Wilhelm of.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet and Pre-Raphaelite artist Date: 1828 - 1882

Sir Thomas Wyatt,

Theophrastus (c372-c287 BC) Ancient Greek philospher and scientist. Pupil of Plato and Aristotle whom he succeeded as President of the Lyceum, 272 BC. Engaving, Paris,1866.

Portrait of Rosso Fiorentino, Italian Mannerist painter 1495-1540. Il Rosso or Maitre Roux. Copperplate engraving from Antoine-Joseph Dezallier dArgenvilles Abrege de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Lives of the most Famous Artists, de Bure lAine, Paris, 1762.

'Sir Thomas Wyatt', c1535-1537 (1945). Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger.

Portrait of Michiel Sparenbeek van Kranenburgh. .

Portrait of Hans Holbein the Younger, c.1497-1543, German history painter, portraitist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. Tinted etching within a decorative border by John Girtin after a self-portrait by Holbein from John Girtins Seventy-Five Portraits of Celebrated Painters from Authentic Originals, J. MCreery, London, 1817.

Georg III., Großfürst of Russia.

Ali, Pasha of Janina.

Cubleli, Mustafa.

Haller of Hallerstein, Hans.

Giulio, Romano Verleger: Pair, Jean Louismaler: Giulio Romanstec: Pumpers, Jean Louisverlagsort: Paris

Essex, Robert Devereux Earl of .

Portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque at the age of 55, Anonymous, 1792 print Portrait of Afonso de Albuquerque in an oval frame. A rule of English text in the upper margin. His name and profession in the lower margin. paper engraving / etching

Eibenschütz, Jonathan .

Portrait of Hugo de Groot, Vivien, After Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1805 - 1811 print print maker: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching historical persons. portrait of a writer. counsellor

Portrait of Bartel Louwer. Print printed from two plates: portrait bust in oval from pastor Bartel Louwer, bareheads and slightly to the right. The portrait is the name of the portrayed and a four-line verse in Dutch. The portrait is framed with an ornamental edge, printed from another plate, and decorated with palm leaves and olive branches. Links and to the right of the portrait are references to Bible verses.

Fracastori, Girolamo.

Schujskij, Wasilij Ivanovitsch.

Compeller's i., theodor.

Lead, Sebastiano del.

'Ali Pacha', (1740-1822), 1830. Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1740-1822) Ottoman Albanian ruler who served as pasha of Rumelia in the Ottoman Empire's European territories. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830

Sir David Stewart Of Banchory, Lord Provost Of Aberdeen (1889 - 1894), Sir William Quiller Orchardson (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1832 - 1910) c. 1894

John Parkinson. Line engraving, 1810.

Varchi, Benedict.

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