Military Portraits Through History

Etchings and prints of military leaders and generals, highlighting their uniforms and historical significance, reflecting the rich heritage of military leadership.

PHILIP AFFLECK British naval commander, Admiral of the White Squadron. Date: 1726 - 1799

The illustration here shows General Horatio Gates (c. 1728-1806), an English-born American general in the American Revolution (1775-83). His victory over the British at the Battle of Saratoga (1777) turned the tide of victory in behalf of the Revolutionaries.

Francois Amedee Doppet, 1753-1799. French general during the French Revolution. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc

Ventura Caro Maza de Lizana (1742-1809). Spanish military. Captain General of Valencia (1801-1803). Portrait. Engraving. Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolucion de Espana by the Conde de Toreno. Madrid, 1851.

Federico Gravina (Palermo, Sicilia,1756-Cádiz,1806). Marino y militar español. 12º capitán general de la Real Armada Española. Participó en la Batalla de Trafalgar. Retrato. Grabado. Historia del Levantamiento, Guerra y Revolución de España, por el Conde de Toreno. Madrid,1851.

PortraT van Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Willem van Senus, After P.J. Lützenkirchen, 1815 - 1851 print Portrait of the Prussian General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. He led his army against Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving

Portrait of Ferdinand Hertog of Brunswijk -Lüneburg, Jacob Houbraken, 1764 - 1766 print Knee piece of Ferdinand Hertog of Brunswijk-Lüneburg in military uniform, in a landscape. In his right hand he holds a command staf and his sting lies in front of him. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching warfare; military affairs (+ commander-in-chief). commander-in-chief, general, marshal

General Jean Charles Pichegru Hodges, Charles Howard (1764 1837), Allart, Johannes (1754 1816)

Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797) General in the French Revolutionary Army. Engraving.

PHILIP AFFLECK British naval commander, Admiral of the White Squadron. Date: 1726 - 1799

Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht .

Gen. the marquis de La Fayette (from a French print, 1781).. Hunt, Charles Havens. Prints. 1881. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834, Generals , French

Portrait of Johan Arnold Zoutman. Portrait of Johan Arnold Zoutman, vice-admiral of Holland and West Friesland, with a commander's staff in his hand. In the background the battle at the Doggersbank.

(General Moreau)

general Alava, engraving, Álava Armory Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain.

Dominique Vandamme, 1770-1830. French general, from ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc

Karl XII., King of Sweden 1697/1750

. Portrait of Adriaan van den Santheuvel, Colonel of the Schutterij and guard in the middle head.

Claude-Victor Perrin (1764-1841). French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Marshal of the Empire in 1807. Portrait of Marshal Victor. Anonymous engraving. "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire" (History of the Consulate and the Empire of France under Napoleon), by A. Thiers. Volume VIII. Published in Paris, 1849.

Kellermann, / DUC the Valmy.

Portrait of Major G.J. Buchner, Anonymous, After Levi Michiel Bendix, 1822 - 1845 print The person portrayed wears two knight orders on his chest. He wears a saber that he holds with his left hand. After Design by: Groningen Printer: Dordrecht Publisher: Leeuwarden paper historical persons

Jose Maria Torrijos y Uriarte (1791-1831). Count of Torrijos. Spanish Liberal soldier. Drawing by Llanta. Lithography. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Portret van Antoine Richepanse, Trolli, 1821 - 1829 print Paris paper historical persons. (military) uniforms

Charles Pichegru, 1761-1804. French general during the French Revolutionary wars. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc

Thaddeus Kosciuszko. General in chief, Polish Armies (Tadeusz Kościuszko) Josi, Christian (Ca 1768 1828), Grassi, Josef (1757 1838)

Portret Van Marine -Officer Claude de Forbin, Antoine Maurin, 1835 - 1851 print Under numbered: no 31. Paris paper historical persons

Major General Nathaniel Greene.. Trumbull, John (1756-1843). Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804) French general in the Revolutionary Wars. Lithograph, Pa;ris, 1832.

Philip of Hohenloe-Neuenstein (1550-1606), called Hollock. Count of Hohenloe-Langenburg. Dutch army commander in the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Portrait. Engraving. Wars of Flanders. Edition published in Antwerp, 1748.

Palkovic, Girl.

Jean Lannes, Duc de Montebello (1769-1809) one of Napoleon's generals. Won the battle of Montebello (1800). Also fought at Marengo, Austerlitz, Eylau, Friedland, and Saragossa. Mortally wounded at Aspern and Esslung. Napoleonic Wars. Lithograph c1830

A stipple and line engraving of Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, created by John Trumbull. The image dates from 1777 to 1890 and was published by G.P. Putnam & Co. in New York. Anthony Wayne lived from 1745 to 1796

S.E. George Washington general en chef des armees des Etats unis de l'Amerique. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799

Lt. Gen. Burgoyne, 1775 - 1890, New York (State), History

General Dwernicki Józef Dwernicki Unknown, Bibliographical Institute (Hildburghausen)

Portret van George Anson, Jan Caspar Philips, after Arthur Pond, 1736 - 1775 print Portrait of George Anson, English Admiral. A sea battle in the background. Amsterdam paper engraving battle (+ naval force)

Tadeusz Kościuszko (Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko of the Roch Coat of ARMS, 1746 Mereczowszczyzna 1817 Solura) General, Participant in the War for Independence of the United States, The Highest Head of the National Armed Forces Dering the Kościuszko Insurrection Czechowicz, Szymon (1689 1775)

Erlon Drouet, Jean Baptiste Comte.

Maj. Gen. Wm. Smallwood. 1750 - 1890. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Smallwood, William, 1732-1792

Edouard Adolphe Cosimir Joseph Mortier, 1st Duc de Trevise (1758-1835) French soldier. Marshal of France under Napoleon I. 15th Prime Minister of France 1834-1835 under king Louis Philippe I. Lithograph, Paris, c1840.

'Portrait of General Montgomery, showing a black silk stock, hair in queue', c1770, (1937). Richard Montgomery (1738-1775) Irish soldier of the British Army who later became a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. From "History of American Costume - Book One 1607-1800", by Elisabeth McClellan. Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1937

Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was a distinguished English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent.

EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc. Date: 1777 - 1849

Portret van Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Philippus Velijn, after Marie Thérèse Noireterre, 1814 print print maker: Parisafter drawing by: Francepublisher: Paris paper etching historical persons. ranks in the army. medals and other marks of military honour

The Tower of Auvergne, / 1st Grenadier de France.

Anthony Cardon, 1772-1813, Flemish, Admiral William Sidney Smith and The Seige of Acre, 1804. Engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, wove paper.

Portrait of Tsar Nicolaas I. Portressed carries a military uniform with epaulettes and distinctions. His name and signature under the portrait.

Federico Gravina (1756-1806). Spanish admiral during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He died as a result of the wounds suffered during the Battle of Trafalgar. Portrait. Engraving. Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolucion de Espana by the Conde de Toreno. Madrid, 1851.

Major General William Phillips, Lieut. Col. of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Died 1781.. Prints. 1880. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Phillips, William, 1731-1781

Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de la Fayette (1757-1834). French aristocrat, military officer and politician. He fought as a general against the British Empire in the American War of Independence. Elected to the Estates General in 1789. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

M. The M (IS) of the Fayette / M (AL) Camp, Commander Gen (AL) of the custody ...

Bowater, John .

Mr. Dumouriez General / Commander-in-Chief The Armies of the North / and Belgium (from Vinck 4661)

Portrait of Lodewijk Napoleon, king of Holland. Portrait in oval list of Lodewijk Napoleon, king of Holland. Bust to the right. Lodewijk Napoleon carries the order officer and the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Union. He carries a stitch under his left arm. Around the portrait are weapons and instruments for military targets.

The fallen Frederik Willem van Brunswijk, 1815, Reinier Vinkeles (I), After Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, 1815 - 1816 print The fallen Frederik Willem, Hertog of Brunswijk-Lüneburg-Oels, killed during the Battle of Quatre-Bras on June 16, 1815. Part of a group of illustrations of events around and during the battles at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo, 16-18 June 1815 . Netherlands paper etching / engraving violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death (+ death during war) Eighty-white

Portrait of Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, Philippus Velijn, 1831 - 1836 print Portrait of Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, commander about a Dutch gunboat during the Belgian uprising and National Hero after his death, by making his ship jump into the air. Netherlands paper etching / engraving hacking and thrusting weapons: sword

Portrait van J.F.C.F. They Hemrict de Grunne, Joseph Schubert, 1849 print Brussels paper. historical persons. ranks in the army

John of Austria (1547-1578). Spanish military and diplomat. Illegitimate son of Emperor Charles V. Governor General of the Netherlands. Engraving. Wars of Flanders. Edition published in Antwerp, 1748.

James Otis was early involved in events leading to the American Revolution in the 1760s. Otis gave an incendiary five-hour oration in the Massachusetts State House in February 1761, disputing the legality of the general writs of assistance,' that allowed British colonial revenue officers to enter any premises, with no advance notice, or probable cause, to search for smuggled goods. He subsequently was elected to the Provincial Assembly, authored political pamphlets, and was a leader of the Stamp Act Congress, 1865 (BSLOC_2019_4_162)

Portrait of Prince William IV of Oranje-Nassau, Pieter Tanjé, after Jean Fournier, 1753 print William IV, Prince of Oranje-Nassau and Stadholder, standing, dressed in armor with general staff and ermine mantle, in a landscape with horsemen and a fortified city in the background. Under the portrait his name and titles on either side of his weapon. Amsterdam paper engraving / etching commander-in-chief, general, marshal. knighthood order (GARTER) - insignia of a knighthood order, e.g.: badge, chain. armorial bearing, heraldry

Scharnhorst, Gerhard von.

Cadet de Gassicourt, Louis Claude.

Portrait of Omer Pasha, Ottoman Field Marshal and Governor; Black and White Illustration

Imperator Petr II Emperor Peter the Second of Russia.. Viskovatov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vasilevich), 1804-1858. text. Prints. 1842. General Research Division. Russia. Armiia , Uniforms , History, Russia. Armiia , Equipment , History, Armor , Russia, Arms & armament , Russia, Russia. Armiia, Russia, Military supplies, Uniforms, Military uniforms

General Lafayette

Francois Athanase de Charette de la Contrie, 21 April 1763, 29 February 1796, was a French naval officer and one of the leaders of the Armee catholique et royale de Vendee during the insurrection there in 1793 to 1796, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century original

General Kosciusko. Commander in Chief of the Polish Army Tadeusz Kościuszko Chapman, John (fl. 1792 1823)

Ramon Cabrera Grino (1806-1877). Spanish military. He was known as ""El Tigre del Maestrazgo"" (The Tiger of Maestrazgo). Carlist leader who took part in the First and Second Carlist Wars. Portrait. Drawing by Jose Cuevas. Lithography. ""Historia de la guerra civil y de los partidos liberal y carlista"" (History of the Civil War and the Liberal and Carlist parties), by Antonio Pirala. Volume III. Madrid, 1869.

Col. Lee. Prints. 1778 - 1880. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Colonel Adrian Scrope, Parliamentarian soldier during the English Civil War and signatory of the death warrant for King Charles I in January 1649. Sir Adrian Scrope. In plain collar and suit of plate armour. Copperplate engraving by Platt from John Adolphus The British Cabinet, containing Portraits of Illustrious Personages, printed by T. Bensley for E. Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1799.

Portret van admiraal Nelson.The portrayed carries a uniform and various awards. His right hand is missing.

Charles Francois Dumouriez (1739-1823) French soldier. Served in the French Revolutionary Wars. His belief in a constitutional monarchy aroused the suspicion of the revolutionaries and he was summoned to Paris. Fearing for his life, he surrendered to the enemies of France and eventually settled in England. French Revolution. Copper engraving 1895, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Cornelis Tromp, Lambert Visscher, After Ferdinand Bol, 1665 - 1702 print Lieutenant Admiraal-General, Cornelis Tromp, with a commandosta in the right hand. Next to him a dark boy who wears a helmet. On the left a globe, a sea card and a rudder. A sea battle in the background. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving globe. battle (+ naval force). maps, atlases. Africans

Karl Xii., King of Sweden Stecher: Boener, Johann AlexanderDatierung: 1701 / 1718Factable place of origin: Nuremberg

Captain Hall, R.N., F.R.S., 1854. British naval officer who '...distinguished himself by his bravery in the expedition to the Baltic...He was appointed to the command of the H E I.C's war-steamer Nemesis. The services rendered by Captain Hall on board this vessel in the China seas are matter of notoriety, and...obtained for him in the Navy the name of "Nemesis Hall"...At the commencement of the present Crimean war, Capt. Hall commissioned the Hecla steam-sloop, and joined the Baltic Fleet...The iron bilge-tanks, now in use in the Royal Navy, and the patent anchor bearing his name

Tadeusz Kościuszko (Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko of the Roch Coat of ARMS, 1746 Mereczowszczyzna 1817 Solura) General, Participant in the War for Independence of the United States, The Highest Head of the National Armed Forces Dering the Kościuszko Insurrection John, Friedrich (1769 1843), Grassi, Josef (1757 1838)

Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (20 June 1763 - 19 November 1798), was a leading Irish revolutionary figure and one of the founding members of the United Irishmen, a republican society that revolted against British rule in Ireland, where he was a leader going into the 1798 Irish Rebellion.

'General Orgoni; The Burman Empire', 1854. From "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31 Dec 1853 to 30 Dec 1854".

William Say, 1768-1834, British, The Right Hon'ble Lord Collingwood, Vice Admiral of the Red, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in the Mediterranean... Pub. Feb. 24, 1806, 1806. Mezzotint.

Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary, 1st Dic de Rovigo (1774-1833) French soldier asnd diplomat. Raised to rang of general in 1805. Lithograph, Paris, 1832

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar y Palacios Ponte-Andrade y Blanco, 24 July 1783, 17 December 1830, Simon Bolivar independence fighter, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, Lieut. Colonel of the First Guards.. Prints. 1885. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Fitzpatrick, Richard, 1747-1813

Abraham de Fabert or Abraham de Fabert d'Esternay (11 October 1599 - 16 May 1662) was a French army commander and military engineer, Marshal of France, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the past

Portrait of ambrogio spinola, marchies de los ball bases; Iconographie. Portrait of Ambrogio Spinola, Marquis's Los Ball Bases, Charging Commander of the Spanish troops in the Southern Netherlands. His right hand resting on helmet, command stop in left hand. To his neck a necklace with the order of the order of the golden fleece.

Major-General Claude Martin (1735-1800) was a French army officer who served in the French, and later British East India companies in colonial India. Martin rose to the rank of major-general in the British East India Company's Bengal Army. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Francisco Espoz y Mina (1781-1836). Spanish military. Leader of the guerrillas of Navarre during the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814). He fought on the Isabeline army in the First Carlist War (1833-1840), being the most responsible for the fight in the north of Spain against the Carlists. Portrait. Engraving by Martínez. Panorama Español, Crónica Contemporánea. Volume III. Madrid, 1845. Author: Martinez. 19th century-Spanish engraver.

His Excellency Nathaniel Green, Esq., Major General of the American Army 1781 John Norman British American A bust length portrait of Nathaniel Green in uniform, facing right within an oval frame topped with swags, set over a small landscape that shows a woman allegorically representing America, nursing two children representing different races, and looking back at British and American armies confronting one another. Published as an illustration in "An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain and the United States, from its commencement to the end of the war," Boston, printed by Nathaniel Coverly and Robert Hodge, 1781, v. 1, frontispiece.. His Excellency Nathaniel Green, Esq., Major General of the American Army 666114

Collingwood, 1. Baron Collingwood, Cuthbert .

Tsar Ioann Alekseevich Tsar Ioann Alekseevich.. Viskovatov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vasilevich), 1804-1858. text. Prints. 1841. General Research Division. Russia. Armiia , Uniforms , History, Russia. Armiia , Equipment , History, Armor , Russia, Arms & armament , Russia, Russia. Armiia, Russia, Military supplies, Uniforms, Military uniforms

Juan Lopez Pinto (1788-1831). Spanish military officer born in Cartagena, member of the Artillery Corps. He took part in the Peninsular War. Shot with General Torrijos on the beach in Malaga. Portrait. Drawing by A. de Salas. Lithography. "Cronica General de España, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Andalucia", 1869.

San Ignacio de Loyola (1491-1556), militar y eclesiático español fundador de la compañía de Jesús. Grabado de 1900.

Portrait van onkende Militair, Christian Heinrich Gottlieb Steuerwald, 1845 print Possibly Arbin. Dordrecht paper. anonymous historical person portrayed

Jan Pieterszoon Coen, (1587 ñ 1629), founder of Batavia. officer of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia, in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

Gen. James Clinton. 1760 - 1890. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Clinton, James, 1736-1812

Milos Obrenovic (born 19 March 1780 in Dobrinja, Uzice district, as Milos Teodorovic; died 26 September 1860 in Topcider) was a leader in the Second Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1815 and fought for an independent Serbian principality in what is now central Serbia. Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th-century original. Record date not stated.

Maj. Genl. Nathl. Greene. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Military and other subject Vernet, Emile Jean Horace (1789 1863)

MERINO COB, JerÑnimo (1769-1844). Spanish military man and clergyman. Spain. First Carlist War. JerÑnimo Merino Cob, known as 'Cura Merino'. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.

Hans Joachim von Zieten, Ziethen, also called Zieten aus dem bush, 14 May 1699-27 January 1786, was one of the most famous equestrian generals in Prus...

Francisco Alcedo Bustamante (1758-1805). Captain of the Spanish Navy. He was the commander of the ship 'Montañez', on whose deck he died during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805. Illustration by Llanta. Portrait. Lithography. Crónica General de España, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Vieja, 1870.

Charles François Dumouriez / Chief General of the Armies of the Rep. F Ançai Get ...

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