Historical Portraits

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  ‘La Triste Heritiere’ (The Sad Heiress), Anne St John, Countess of Rochester (1614-1696) wife of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (1612-1658)

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  ‘La Triste Heritiere’, Anne St John, Countess of Rochester (1614-1696) wife of Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester (1612-1658)

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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 Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726-1814) an officer of the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars

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  Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel (1725-1786) Royal Navy officer and politician who also served as First Lord of the Admiralty

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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 John Byng (1704-1757) a British Royal Navy officer who was court-martialled for failing to prevent Minorca from falling to the French and executed by firing squad

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  Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (1735-1823) Royal Navy officer and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom

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  Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake (1656-1720) a Royal Navy officer and later a politician who, as a junior officer, saw action at the Battle of Texel during the Third Anglo-Dutch War

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

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  Admiral Sir Charles Saunders (c1715-1775) a Royal Navy officer who commanded HMS Gloucester and led her in action at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747

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  Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c1453-1515) a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman who served as Governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515

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  Agnolo (Angelo) Ambrogini (1454-1494) commonly known by his nickname Poliziano was an Italian classical scholar and poet of the Florentine Renaissance

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  Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)

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  Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600-1674)

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  Albertus Magnus (c1200-1280) also known as Saint Albert the Great, German Catholic Dominican friar, philosopher and bishop

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  Aldus Pius Manutius (c1449-1515) an Italian humanist, scholar, educator, and the founder of the Aldine Press whose enchiridia, small portable books, revolutionized personal reading

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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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  Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) King of Macedon, by age thirty, had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India

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  Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512) an Italian-born merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term “America” is derived

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  Andrea Doria, Prince of Melfi (1466-1560) a Genoese statesman, condottiero and admiral, playing a key role in the Republic of Genoa during his lifetime

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  Anne Hamilton (1639-1695) Countess of Southesk wife of Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk

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  Anne Hamilton (1639-1695) Countess of Southesk wife of Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk

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

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

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

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  Anne of Austria (1601-1666) Habsburg archduchess, queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV

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  Anne of Austria (1601-1666) Habsburg archduchess, queen of France as the wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV

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  Anne Scott (1651-1732) 1st Duchess of Buccleuch and also Duchess of Monmouth

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  Anne Temple (d. 1718) Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza who became Lady Lyttleton as the second wife to Sir Charles Lyttleton (1628-1716)

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  Anne Temple (d. 1718) Maid of Honour to Queen Catherine of Braganza who became Lady Lyttleton as the second wife to Sir Charles Lyttleton (1628-1716)

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  Antisthenes (c446-c366 BC) a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates who first learned rhetoric under Gorgias before becoming an ardent disciple of Socrates

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  Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Grammont’

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  Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Gramont’

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  Antoine (or Anthony) Hamilton, comte (c1645-1719) Irish-born soldier and writer most famous for ‘Mémoires du comte de Grammont’

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  Antoine III Agénor de Gramont, Duke of Gramont (1604-1678) French military commander and diplomat who served as Marshal of France from 1641, Viceroy of Navarre and Béarn, and Governor of Bayonne

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  Apollonius of Tyana (c3 BC-c97 AD) a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Anatolia whose biography was written by Philostratus

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  Apuleius (c124-c170) a Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician who was from Madauros, Numidia , modern Algeria

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  Aristippus of Cyrene (c435-c356 BC) a one time pupil of Socrates and the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy

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  Aristomachus of Soli, an ancient Greek who wrote on the culture of bees

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  Aristotle (384-322 BC) a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece who was taught by Plato and was the founder of the Lyceum

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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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  Atahualpa (c1502-1533) the last Inca Emperor before the Spanish conquest ended his reign

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  Athanasius I of Alexandria (c296-373) was the 20th bishop of Alexandria, a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism

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  Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (1627-1703) a Royalist during the English Civil War

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  Augustine of Hippo (354-430) also known as St Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa

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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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  Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (1640-1709), was an English mistress of King Charles II

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  Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine (1640-1709), was an English mistress of King Charles II

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  Barthélemy d’Herbelot de Molainville (1625-1695) was a French Orientalist

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  Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (330-379) was an East Roman bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor

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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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  Bede (c672-735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, was an English Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Peter in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles

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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 Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV

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  Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) was an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician who served as the chief minister to the kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV

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