Historical Portraits

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  Adelaide Kemble (1815-1879) English opera singer and a member of the Kemble family of actors. She was the younger sister of Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and anti-slavery activist

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  Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718-1792) best known for his commands in the American Revolutionary War

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  Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake (1656-1720) Royal Navy officer and politician

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  Alexander Briant, Jesuit priest executed in London in 1581

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  Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) Scottish theologian, one time minister at Leuchars and important ecclesiastical statesman of his period

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  Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven (1582-1661) Scottish soldier and Lord General of the Army of the Covenanters

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  Anne Hyde (1637-1671) Duchess of York and of Albany, first wife of King James II

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  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish soldier, Tory statesman and one of the leading military and political figures of his time, serving twice as Prime Minister

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  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) at the Battle of Waterloo June 18th 1815

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  Barbara van Beck (1629-1668) entrepreneur and celebrity whose face and much of her body were covered with hair (hypertrichosis or Ambras syndrome). She appeared in London in 1655 and 1668

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  Bathsua Reginald Makin (c1600-c1675) teacher who was referred to as England’s most learned lady and argued primarily for the equal right of women and girls to obtain an education

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  Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and also a successful novelist

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  Benjamin Hewling (1663-1685), Executed executed at Lyme Regis for participation in Monmouth’s rebellion

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  Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-642)

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  Cardinal Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, (1585-642)

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  Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) Portuguese Queen consort of King Charles II

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  Death of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (1566-1625)

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  Denzil Holles (1599-1680) English statesman and one of the Five Members of Parliament whom Charles I failed to arrest thereby starting the English Civil War

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  Diogenes (c412-323 BC) a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy, born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor, and died at Corinth

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  Dionysius the Renegade (c330-c250 BC) also known as Dionysius of Heraclea, a Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who abandoned Stoicism later in life

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  Dominic Collins, Irish Jesuit priest executed in London in 1602

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  Don Giovanni de’ Medici (1567-1621) the illegitimate son of Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, who became an Italian military commander, diplomat and architect

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  Dorothy Wadham (c1535-1618) wife of Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609) and as his widow in pursuance of his wishes, was the foundress of Wadham College, Oxford

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  Edmund Ludlow (c1617-1692) an English parliamentarian, best known for his involvement in the execution of Charles I, and for his Memoirs, which were published posthumously

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  Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttleton (1589-1645) from Munslow in Shropshire, Chief Justice of North Wales who argued against John Hampden in the case over Ship Money

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  Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1500-1552) Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew, King Edward VI

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  Elisabeth Félix, better known only as Mademoiselle Rachel (1821-1858) French actress who became a prominent figure in French society, and was the mistress of, among others, Napoleon III

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  Epiphanius of Petra , also called Epiphanius of Syria, was a sophist and rhetorician at Athens in the first half of the fourth century AD

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  Fabius Rusticus (died c108 AD) was a Roman historian who was quoted on several occasions by Tacitus who also described him as a close friend of Seneca

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  Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Duke of Alba, Grandee of Spain, (1537-1583) a commander in the Spanish army during the Eighty Years’ War

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  Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth

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  Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1584-1648) Parliamentary commander in the English Civil War

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  Frances Teresa Stewart Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1647-1702

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  Francis, Duke of Guise (1519-1563) a French general, politician and a prominent leader during the French Wars of Religion

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  Francisco Pizarro González (c1471-1541) a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of Peru

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  Franciscus Pagius, English Jesuit priest excuted at Tyburn in 1602

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  François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duke of Luxembourg (1628-1695) was a French general, Marshal of France and a comrade and successor of the Great Condé

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  Frederick Barbarossa (1122-1190) the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death

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  Friedrich Spanheim the elder (1600-1649) a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden and father of Ezekiel Spanheim

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  Gaius Marius (c157-86 BC) a Roman general, politician, and statesman, who held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career

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  Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually known as Sallust (86-c35 BC) was a Roman historian and politician from an Italian plebeian family

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  George Anson (1697-1762) 1st Baron Anson, Admiral of the Fleet, was a junior officer during the War of the Spanish Succession

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  George Berkeley (1685-1753) Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland, who advanced a theory he called “immaterialism” later termed “subjective idealism”

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  George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar

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  George Byng (1663-1733) 1st Viscount Torrington, Admiral of the Fleet, as a lieutenant, delivered a letter from the captains to Prince William of Orange at Torbay, assuring of the captains’ support

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  George Crabbe (1754-1832) English poet, surgeon and clergyman and author of the narrative poem Peter Grimes

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  George Heriot (1563-1624) Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist who is remembered today as founder of George Heriot’s School

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  George Lesley of Monymusk, who became a Capuchin (Franciscan) monk known as Father Archangel of Aberdeen

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  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628) English courtier, statesman, patron of the arts and favourite of King James I

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  George Washington (1732-1799) American statesman, soldier and the first President of the United States

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  Gerald of Wales (c1146-c1223) a Cambro-Norman archdeacon of Brecon, historian and a royal clerk to the king and two archbishops who travelled widely and wrote extensively

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  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher and founder of the tradition of Christian Kabbalah

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  Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1453-1515) a Spanish general and statesman who led successful military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars

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  Gregory of Nazianzus (c329-390) a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinople and theologian

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  Guido Panciroli or Pancirolli (1523-1599) a sixteenth-century Italian antiquarian, historian, jurist and law professor at Ferrara, Padua and Turin

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  Gustav I, born Gustav Eriksson and later known as Gustav Vasa (1496-1560) was King of Sweden from 1523 until his death in 1560

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  Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632, and credited for the rise of Sweden as a great European power

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  Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer and Latin poet

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  Hamilcar Barca (c275-228 BC) Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal

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  Hannibal (247-181 BC) Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage’s main forces against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War

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