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Historical Portraits of Rulers

Collection of classic portraits capturing historical rulers in elaborate costumes. The artworks showcase respective regal attire and detailed features indicative of their era.

Portrait of man by Heinrich Friedrich Fuger, Oil on cardboard, after 1816, 1751-1818, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 19, 5x15, 3
Portrait of man by Heinrich Friedrich Fuger, Oil on cardboard, after 1816, 1751-1818, Russia, Moscow, State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, 19, 5x15, 3
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Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by Christian Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, Color lithograph, 1725-1794, Private Collection 20x27,5Nathaniel Seymour. Date/Period: Between 1730 and 1735. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 762 mm (30 in); Width: 635 mm (25 in). Author: Jonathan Richardson the Elder.Pieter van der Werff, Portrait of Adriaen Paets I (1631-1686), ruler between 1668 and 1686, portrait painting visual material linen oil painting canvas, Oval portrait of man representing Adriaen Paets I (1631-1686) VOC manager and member of the craft Half-way facing to the right. brown allonge wig. Bef with tassels and dark robes. Husband of Maria de Lange (marriage in 1653) sister of Johanna and Pieter de Lange (11245) Banderol on list in black paint: 16 ADRIAEN PAATS. 68 Dutch East India Company VOC Rotterdam City Triangle Boompjes governor Paets Kralingen This portrait originally hung in the East Indian House at the Boompjes in Rotterdam.AGUSTIN MONTIANO Y LUYANDO 1697/1764- PRIMER DIRECTOR DE LA ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA. Author: ANDRES GINES AGUIRRE (1727-1800). Location: ACADEMIA DE SAN FERNANDO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.Portrait of David Leeuw (1682-1755), Mennonite Draper. Portrait of David Leeuw (1682-1755), Baptist merchant in fabrics and manufactures. His half, right. In the left hand a snuff box with the weapons of his parents Jacob Leeuw (1636-1709) and Christina de Flines (1647-1725) in the lid.Portrait of Jacob Willemsz. de Vos, Anonymous, c. 1795England, London, The Strand, Twinings Tea Shop and Museum, Portrait of Thomas Twining (1675-1741) by William HogarthPhilippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (1638-1720) by Rigaud, Hyacinthe Francois Honore (1659-1743) / Musee de l'Histoire de France, Chateau de Versailles / 1702 / France / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 163x130,5 / RococoWilliam Hewson. Oil painting.John Duncan Of Mosstoun, Provost Of Aberdeen (1758-59, 1762-63, 1766-67), Artist UnknownPortrait of D. P. Troshchinsky by Vladimir Borovikovsky. Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (1757-1825) a Russian painter of Ukrainian originA virtuoso of the arts and sciences. Oil painting.Portrait of hetman Kirill Razumovsky by anonymous artist, painting, Private CollectionKing GEORGE III of England, 1738-1820, Prince of HanoverJoseph Bonnier de la Mosson. Dated: 1745. Dimensions: overall: 137.9 x 105.4 cm (54 5/16 x 41 1/2 in.) framed: 177.8 x 144.78 x 15.24 cm (70 x 57 x 6 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN-MARC NATTIER.Portrait of Jeremias van Riemsdijk, Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, Franciscus Josephus Fricot (attributed to), 1775 - 1777 painting Portrait of Jeremias van Riemsdijk (1712-77). Governor General (1775-77). Hippiece, standing to the left. Commandostaf in the right hand, the left hand in the side. At the top right the family crest. Part of a series of portraits of the Governors General of the former Dutch East Indies. brass (alloy). oil paint (paint) historical persons. baton of general. colonial governorKing Charles X (1757-1836) of France painted on enamelled porcelain from SevresAdriaen Caspar Parduyn (1718-47), Councilor and Alderman of Middelburg, Son of Caspar Adriaen Parduyn and Maria van Citters. Dating: 1735 - 1753. Measurements: h 54 cm × w 44 cm; d 6.5 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Philip van Dijk.Carlo GOLDONI, 1707-93 Italian playwright (detail)Pere Pau Muntanya / 'Retrato del intendente Manuel de Terán, Barón de la Linde', 1787, Óleo sobre lienzo, 78 x 58 cm. Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi.Portrait of a Woman, traditionally identified as the Countess of Arundel A Lady Called the Countess of Arundel Inscribed in artist's hand in yellow paint, lower left: "Countess of Arundel" Signed and dated in black paint, lower right: "Cornelius Johnson | fecit 1619", Cornelius Johnson, 1593-1661, BritishSelf-portrait of Antoon van Dyck, copy. Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641), painter, Czeczel-Biechońska, Jadwiga (ante 1863-post 1903), painterMajor General Sir Barry Close, John Smart, 1741-1811, British, 1794, Gouache and watercolor on ivory, Image: 3 1/8 x 2 1/2 inches (7.9 x 6.4 cm) and Frame: 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 x 1/2 inches (8.9 x 6.7 x 1.3 cm), portraitPhilippe Francois Nazaire Fabre D Eglantine, 1755-1794. French playwright and revolutionary, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not StatedVittore Ghislandi called Fra' Galgario (1655-1747), Portrait of a Gentleman, 1730, oil on canvas, 127x98 cm.John Peck SC 000566 Painting; oil on canvas; overall: 63.5 x 47.9 cm (25 x 18 7/8 in.) framed: 81.9 x 66.3 x 7.6 cm (32 1/4 x 26 1/8 x 3 in.);Abraham Guchter (1608-1682), Frederik III, 1625-1682Vittorio Amedeo II in Maestà. Date/Period: 1728/1728. Painting. Oil painting. Author: MARTIN VAN MEYTENS.Portrait of King of Poland Stanisław August in a Feathered Hat. Bacciarelli, Marcello (1731-1818), painterDorothy Jordan (1761-1816). Irish actress. Mrs. Jordan characterized as Hippolyta in "She Would and She Would Not". Portrait by John Hoppner (1758-1810). Oil on canvas (74,9 x 62,2 cm), exhibited in 1791. National Portrait Gallery. London, England, United Kingdom. Author: John Hoppner (1758-1810). British painter.Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Count of Mirabeau, 1749-1791, was a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th-century artworkPortrait of Mattheus van den Broucke (1620-1685). Councillor of the Indies. Portrait of Mattheus van den Broucke, Mount of India, adorned with the gold chain and medal (medal) that were donated by the VOC in 1670. In Mayor of Dordrecht in 1677. Standing, half, for a balustrade. A walking stick in the right hand, the left hand in the side. A seascape with sailing ships in the background.RETRATO DE DON FROILAN DE BERGANZA - HACIA 1798 - OLEO/LIENZO - 142 x 107 cm - NP 7052. Author: MARIANO SALVADOR MAELLA. Location: MUSEO DEL PRADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.Portrait Of The Infante Don Luis De Bourbon Goya y Lucientes, Francisco De(1746-1828 Spanish), Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USAAugust II. Elector of Saxony and King (1730), and King Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia Oil painting by Louis de Silvestre d. J. PolandJohann Joseph FUX 1660-1741 Austrian composer and music theoristWilliam Fermor. Date/Period: 1758. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 993.90 mm (39.13 in); Width: 735.07 mm (28.94 in). Author: Pompeo Batoni.Etienne Francois de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul (born 28 June 1719 in Nancy, died 8 May 1785 in Paris) was Marquis de Removille, Seigneur de Chanteloup, Marquis de Stainville (since 1770), Duc de Choiseul and Pair of France (since 1758) as well as Duke of Choiseul, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedFrancisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666). Portuguese writer. Colored engraving. 18th century.Unknown artist, eighteenth century, Elihu Yale; William Cavendish, the second Duke of Devonshire; Lord James Cavendish; Mr. Tunstal; and an Enslaved Servant, ca. 1708. Oil on canvas.Portrait of a Gentleman, Christian Friedrich Zincke, 1685-1767, German, undated, Enamel on porcelain, Image: 2 1/8 x 1 5/8 inches (5.4 x 4.1 cm) and Frame: 2 3/8 x 1 7/8 x 1/4 inches (6 x 4.8 x 0.6 cm), portraitPortrait of a man with a scroll in his hand. unknown, painterWilliam Russell (1718-1801), surgeon to the Worcester Infirmary. Oil painting by Stephen Hewson.'Portrait of Kryzanowska Chopin, mother of composer Frederic Chopin', 19th century , Oil on canvas.Portrait of Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini (Florence, 1730 - Paris, 1786), Italian composer. Painting by Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun (1755-1842).Edward Haytley, active 1740-1761, British, A Sportsman, 1752. Oil on canvas.Portrait of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria by Dyck, Sir Anthony van (1599-1641) / Museo del Prado, Madrid / ca 1634 / Flanders / Oil on canvas / Portrait / 107x106 / BaroqueDUPLESSIS, Joseph-Sifrde (1724-1802). Christoph Willibald Gluck. 1775. Oil on wood. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History).Horatio Walpole 1. Baron Walpole 1678 - 1757 Englischer Diplomat / Horatio Walpole 1st Baron Walpole 1678 - 1757 English diplomatist Engraved by Geremia from the book A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors Volume IV published 1806, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,Portrait of the Engraver Jan Casper Philips. Dating: 1747. Measurements: h 35 cm × w 30 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Tibout Regters.Portrait of Prince Jakub Sobieski. Troy, François de (1645-1730), painterJacques Pierre Brissot (1754-1793), escritor y dirigente político de los girondinos. Grabado de 1896.Portrait of Lord George Sackville Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792). Portrait of Lord George Sackville. Oil on canvas, 49 3/4 x 39 3/4 in. (126.4 x 101.0 cm). European ArtPierre de Ruel 1752 - 1821 Marquis de Beurnonville. Von Pannemaker gestochen, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not statedPortrait of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), three-quarter length, in brown robes. Johann Baptist Lampi I (1751-1830). Oil on canvas. 74.6 x 58.8cm.MAUSA VAUBAN, Museum of Urban Art and Street Art, Neuf-Brisach Fortress, France, Europe, Graffiti of a portrait of a historical figure with curly hair on a wall with yellow and blue accents, EuropeWilliam Cavendish 1st Duke of Devonshire 1640, 1707 Englischer Soldat und Staatsmann, 1707 English soldier and statesman From the book A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors Volume IV published 1806, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated