Knight's Gallery of Portraits 1836
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Adam Smith (1723-1790) Scottish economist, philosopher, author and moral philosopher
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Admiral Robert Blake (1598-1657) important military commander of the Commonwealth of England and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 18th-century English poet and translator of Homer
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Ambroise Paré (c.1510 -1590) French barber surgeon who served four French kings and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology
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Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) influential Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice
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Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko (1746 -1817) Polish-Lithuanian military engineer, statesman, and military leader who became a national hero in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, and the United States
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) French nobleman and chemist, central to the 18th-century chemical revolution who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and biology
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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489-1534) the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance
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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) Spanish Baroque painter
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature
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Catherine II (1729-1796) also known as Catherine the Great, born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country’s longest-ruling female leader
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Charles James Fox (1749-1806) prominent British Whig statesman who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger
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Charles V (1500-1558) ruler of both the Spanish Empire (as Charles I) from 1516, the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and the lands of the former Duchy of Burgundy from 1506
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Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy, most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe
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Dante Alighieri (c1265 – 1321) major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages whose Divine Comedy is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages
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David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist
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Donato Bramante (1444-1514) Italian architect who introduced Renaissance architecture to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, with his plan for St. Peter’s Basilica
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Dr. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) English inventor who graduated from Oxford University very early and went on to invent the power loom
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Edmund Halley, FRS (1656-1742) English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and physicist
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Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) English poet best known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene
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Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian, writer and Member of Parliament
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Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) English statesman and Lord Chancellor to King Charles II
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Edward Jenner (1749 -1823) English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author
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Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros(1436-1517) also known as Ximenes de Cisneros, was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, statesman and Grand Inquisitor
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651-1715) French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer
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Frederick II (1712-1786) King of Prussia from 1740 until 1786 who re-organized the Prussian army, won many military victories and encouraged the arts and the Enlightenment in Prussia
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Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) German-British astronomer, composer and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel and father of Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871)
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George Buchanan (1506–1582) Scottish historian and humanist scholar
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George Washington (1732-1799) American statesman, soldier and the first President of the United States
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) German polymath and philosopher prominent in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy
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Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) King of Sweden credited as the founder of Sweden as a Great Power
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Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (1611-1675) French Marshal General who gained a reputation as one of the greatest generals in modern history
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Henri François d’Aguesseau (1668-1751) Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750
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Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) Spanish Conquistador who’s expedition caused the fall of the Aztec Empire which began the Spanish colonization of the Americas
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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) Dutch Jurist
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Jacques Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) French historian, book collector and president of the Parlement de Paris
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Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (1627-1704) French bishop, theologian and court preacher to Louis XIV of France
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James Bradley (1693-1762) English astronomer and priest who served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmond Halley
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James Brindley (1716-1772) English engineer
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James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist
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Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (1749-1822) French mathematician, astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France under the rule of King Louis XIV
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Genevan philosopher, writer and composer whose political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe
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Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
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Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) cleric in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell
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Johan de Witt (1625-1672) a major figure in Dutch politics in the mid-17th century, during the Dutch Golden Age
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German writer and statesman whose works include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose and verse drama
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John Calvin, French reformer (1509-1564)
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) English soldier and statesman who served five monarchs
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John Flaxman R.A. (1755-1826) British sculptor, draughtsman, and a leading figure in Neoclassicism
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John Hampden (c1595-1643) English parliamentarian known for his refusal to be taxed for ship money
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John Harrison (1693-1776) self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented a marine chronometer which solved the problem of calculating longitude while at sea
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John Knox (c1514-1572) Scottish Reformer, Historian
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Milton (1608-1674) English poet, polemicist, and civil servant during the Commonwealth
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John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist and a scholar of England’s ancient laws and constitution
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John Wesley (1703-1791) English cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, founded Methodism
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