Knight's Gallery of Portraits 1836
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Washington (1732-1799) American statesman, soldier and the first President of the United States
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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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Hernan Cortes (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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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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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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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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Joseph Black MD (1728-1799) Scottish physician and chemist
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Joseph Priestley FRS (1733-1804) English natural philosopher, chemist, multi-subject educator and liberal political theorist
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King William III (1650-702) widely known as William of Orange was King of England from 1689 until his death in 1702
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor and scientist
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Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-1492) Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy
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Marcantonio Raimondi (c1470-c1534) Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings
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Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully (1560-1641) nobleman, soldier, statesman, and right-hand man to Henry IV of France
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Michel de l’Hôpital (1507-1573) French statesman
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French statesman, military leader and emperor
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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) leading painter of the classical French Baroque style
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe which placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the centre of the universe
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Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) English military and political leader, regicide and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
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Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
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Robert William Boyle (1627-1691) Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor
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Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) Spanish Basque priest and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus
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Sarah Siddons, née Kemble (1755-1831) Welsh-born actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century
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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707) French military engineer known for his skill in fortifications
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Simón Bolívar, The Liberator (1783-1830) Venezuelan soldier and statesman who led the revolutions against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of New Granada
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Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) highly acclaimed English architect, astronomer and mathematician-physicist
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Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) English barrister, judge, politician, and jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
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Sir Francis Drake (c1540-1596) English sea captain and privateer of the Elizabethan era
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Sir Humphry Davy PRS MRIA FGS FRS (1778-1829) Cornish chemist best known for, among many other achievments, inventing the new field of electrochemistry
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Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) English portrait painter and founder and first president of the Royal Academy, London
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Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution
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The Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée (1712-1789) philanthropic educator of 18th-century France, known as the ‘Father of the Deaf’
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William Harvey (1578-1657) physician who first described the systemic circulation of blood by the heart
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William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-1793) Scottish nobleman, barrister, politician and judge
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William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) prominent British Tory statesman who became the youngest British prime minister in 1783 at the age of 24
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William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) British statesman of the Whig group who also served as Prime Minister
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) prolific and influential Austrian composer of the Classical era
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