A selection of portraits of historical figures from the Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin. The images in this collection are in the public domain. You do not need to ask for permission to use these images.

Portrait Index by Name

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Adams, Abigail. 1744-1818.

Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel of Sax. (Prince Albert) 1819-1861.

Alfred the Great. (King of Wessex) 849-899.

Alighieri, Dante. 1265-1321.

Allegri da Correggio, Antonio. 1494-1534.

Anne of Austria. (Queen of France) 1601-1666.

Antoinette, Marie. 1755-1793.

Arkwright, Sir Richard. 1732-1792.

Aspasia. 470?-410 BCE.

Asquith, Herbert Henry. (Earl of Oxford and Asquith) 1852-1928.

Aubigné, Francoise d'. (Marquise de Maintenon) 1635-1719.

Augusta Victoria. 1858-1921.

Augustine, Saint. 354-430.

Augustus. 63 BCE-14 CE.

Austen, Jane. 1775-1817.

Aziz, Abdul. 1830-1876.

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Bach, Johann Sebastian. 1685-1750.

Bahadur, Ganga Singhji. (Maharaja of Bikaner) 1880-1943.

Bairakdar, Mustafa. 1775-1808.

Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter. 1863-1938.

Barth, Heinrich. 1821-1865.

Basile, Mathieu. (Jules Guesde) 1845-1922.

Beaconsfield, Earl of. (Benjamin Disrael) 1804-1881.

Beauharnais, Joséphine de. 1763-1814.

Becú, Jeanne Marie. (Comtesse Du Barry) 1746-1793.

Beethoven, Ludwig van. 1770-1828.

Belgrano, Manuel. 1770-1820.

Benedict XV. (Giacomo della Chiesa) 1854-1922.

Bernhard. (Duke of Saxe-Weimar) 1604-1639.

Bernstein, Eduard. 1850-1932.

Bernstorff, Count Johann Heinrich von. 1862-1939.

Bessaraba, Mateiu. ruled 1633-1654.

Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von. 1856-1921.

Bichat, Marie François Xavier. 1771-1802.

Bikaner, Maharaja of. (Sir Ganga Singhji Bahadur) 1880-1943.

Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von. 1815-1898.

Blessington, Countess of. 1789-1849.

Blucher, Gebhard Leberecht von. Prince of Wahlstatt. 1742-1819.

Bolívar, Simón. 1783-1830.

Boleyn, Anne. 1507-1536.

Bonaparte, Charles Louis Napoleon. (Napoleon III) 1808-1873.

Bonaparte, Napoleon. (Napoleon I) 1769-1821.

Bonheur, Rosa. 1822-1899.

Boone, Daniel. 1734-1820.

Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne. 1627-1704.

Boutroux, Éteinne Émile Marie. 1845-1921.

Bratianu, Ioan. 1822-1891.

Bronstein, Leib Davydovich. (Leon Trotsky) 1879-1940.

Brontë, Charlotte. 1816-1855.

Brougham, Henry Peter. (Baron Broughman and Vaux) 1778-1868.

Browning, Elizabeth Barret. 1806-1861.

Bryan, William Jennings. 1860-1925.

Bryant, William Cullen. 1794-1878.

Bryce, Viscount James. 1838-1922.

Buchanan, James. 1791-1868.

Buonarroti, Michelangelo. 1475-1564.

Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Angela Georgina. 1814-1906.

Burke, Edmund. 1729-1797.

Burns, Robert. 1759-1796.

C

Caesar, Gaius Julius. 100-44 BCE.

Caesar, Tiberius Claudius Nero. 42 BCE-37 CE.

Calhoun, John Caldwell. 1782-1850.

Calvin, John. 1509-1564.

Capello, Bianca. 1542-1587.

Carlyle, Thomas. 1795-1881.

Carnegie, Andrew. 1835-1919.

Carol I. 1839-1914.

Castlemaine, Countess of. (Barbara Villiers) 1641-1709.

Catherine II, Catherine the Great. 1684?-1727.

Catherine of Aragon. 1485-1536.

Cecilia, Saint. d230.

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. 1547-1616.

Chamberlain, Sir Austen. 1863-1937.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. 1874-1936.

Chevreuse, Duchesse de. (Marie de Rohan-Montbazon) 1600-1679.

Christian X. 1870-1947.

Christina. (Queen of Sweden) 1626-1689.

Chung San. (Sun Yat-sen) 1866-1925.

Churchill, Sarah. (Duchess of Marlborough) 1660-1744.

Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. 1874-1965.

Clay, Henry. 1777-1852.

Cleopatra VII (or VI). 69-30 BCE.

Cleveland, Stephen Grover. 1837-1908.

Colbert, Jean Baptiste. 1619-1683.

Columbus, Christopher. 1451-1506.

Constantine I. 1868-1923.

Copernicus, Nicolaus. 1473-1543.

Cornaro, Caterina. (Queen of Cyprus) 1454-1520.

Correggio, Antonio Allegri da. 1494-1534.

Cortez, Hernando. 1485-1547.

Crockett, David. 1786-1836.

Cromwell, Oliver. 1599-1658.

Curran, Joseph Philpot. 1750-1817.

Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe. 1825-1903.

Custer, George Armstrong. 1839-1876.

Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Fré. 1769-1832.

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Danton, Georges Jacques. 1759-1794.

Darwin, Charles Robert. 1809-1882.

Davis, Jefferson. 1808-1889.

De Soto, Fernando. 1500?-1542.

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell. 1834-1928.

Descartes, René. 1596-1650.

Dickens, Charles John Huffam. 1812-1870.

Diderot, Denis. 1713-1784.

Disraeli, Benjamin. (Earl of Beaconsfield) 1804-1881.

Douglas, Margaret. (Countess of Lennox) 1515-1578.

Douglass, Frederick. 1817?-1895.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. 1859-1930.

Du Barry, Comtesse. (Jeanne Marie Bécu) 1746-1793.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. 1872-1906.

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Edison, Thomas Alva. 1847-1931.

Effendi, Ibrahim Shinassi. 1840-1888.

Eliot, Charles William. 1834-1926.

Elizabeth I. 1533-1603.

Entragues, Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'. (Marquise de Verneuil) 1579-1633.

Erasmus, Desiderius. 1466?-1536.

Este, Isabella d'. 1474-1539.

Estrées, Gabrielle d'. 1573-1599.

Etampes, Duchesse d'. 1508-1580.

Eugénie, Marie de Montijo de Guzm&aacuten. (Comtesse de Teba) 1826-1920.

Eugene. (Archduke of Austria) 1863-1954.

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Farragut, David Glasgow. 1801-1870.

Feng Kuo-chang. 1858-1920.

Ferdinand I (Rumania). 1865-1927.

Ferdinand I. 1861-1948.

Fitzherbert, Marie Anne. (Mrs. Fitzherbert) 1756-1837.

Fourier, François Marie Charles. 1772-1837.

Francis II (Holy Roman Empire). (Francis I (Austria)) 1768-1835.

Francis Joseph I. 1830-1916.

Francis of Assisi, Saint. 1182-1226.

Franklin, Benjamin. 1706-1790.

Frederick II. (Frederick the Great) 1712-1786.

Frederick William III. 1770-1840.

Frederick William. (The Great Elector) 1620-1688.

Fry, Elizabeth. 1780-1845.

Fuad I. (Ahmed Fuad Pasha) 1868-1936.

Fuad Pasha, Ahmed. (Fuad I.) 1868-1936.

Fulda, Ludwig. 1862-1939.

Fulton, Robert. 1765-1815.

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Galilei, Galileo. (Galileo) 1564-1642.

Galsworthy, John. 1867-1933.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe. 1807-1882.

Garnet, Henry Highland. 1815-1882.

George V. 1865-1936.

Gerard, James Watson. 1867-1951.

Gibbon, Edward. 1737-1794.

Gladstone, William Ewart. 1809-1898.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. 1749-1832.

Goto, Count Shimpei. 1856-1929.

Gounaris, Demetrios. 1866-1922.

Grant, Ulysses Simpson. 1822-1885.

Grey, Lady Jane. 1537-1554.

Grey, Sir Edward. 1862-1933.

Guesde, Jules. Mathieu Basile. 1845-1922.

Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume. 1787-1874.

Gustavus II. (Gustavus Adolphus) 1594-1632.

Gustavus V. (Gustaf) 1858-1950.

Guzmán, Eugénie Marie de Montijo de. (Empress Eugénie) 1826-1920.

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Haakon VII. 1872-1957.

Halide Edib. 1885-1964.

Hamid II, Abdul. (Abdul-Hamid II) 1842-1918.

Hamid Zia Pasha, Abdul. 1825-1881.

Hamilton, Emma. 1761?-1815.

Handel, George Frederick. 1685-1759.

Hannibal. 247-183.

Hardenburg, Prince Karl August von. 1750-1822.

Hardinge, Charles. (Baron Hardinge of Penshurst) 1858-1944.

Harrison, Benjamin. 1833-1901.

Harrison, Frederic. 1831-1923.

Harvey, William. 1578-1657.

Hauptmann, Gerhart. 1862-1946.

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard. 1822-1893.

Heloise. d1164.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. 1793-1835.

Henry IV. (Henry of Navarre) 1553-1610.

Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir. 1792-1871.

Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff. (und von Hindenburg) 1847-1934.

Hohenzollern, Frederic William II. 1744-1797.

Houston, Samuel. 1793-1863.

Hsu Shih-chang. 1825-1939.

Humboldt, Friederich Heinrich Alexander von. (Baron von) 1769-1859.

Hussein Avni Pasha. 1819-1976.

Hussein Kamil. 1850?-1917.

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Irving, Washington. 1783-1859.

Isabella I. 1451-1504.

Isabella of Austria. 1566-1633.

Ishii, Viscount Kikujiro. 1866-1945.

Ivan III Vasilevich. (Ivan the Great) 1440-1505.

Ivan IV Vasilevich. (Ivan the Terrible) 1530-1584.

J

Jackson, Andrew. 1767-1845.

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan. (Stonewall Jackson) 1824-1863.

Jameson, Anna Brownell. 1794-1860.

Joan of Arc. 1412-1431.

Johnson, Andrew. 1808-1875.

Johnson, Samuel. 1709-1784.

Jordan, David Starr. 1851-1931.

Joubert, Petrus Jacobus. 1834-1900.

Juárez, Benito Pablo. 1806-1872.

K

Kang Yu-wei. 1858-1927.

Kant, Immanuel. 1724-1804.

Kato, Baron Takaakira. 1859-1926.

Kato, Baron Tomosaburo. 1859-1923.

Kemal Bey. (Mehmed Namik) 1840-1888.

Kepler, Johannes. 1571-1630.

Kerenski, Aleksandr Feodorovich. 1881-1970.

Kipling, Rudyard. 1865-1936.

Kogalniceanu, Mihail. 1817-1891.

Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus. 1825-1904.

L

La Valliere, Duchesse de. (Françoise Loiuse de la Baume Le Blanc) 1644-1710.

Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier de. 1757-1834.

Langston, John Mercer. 1829-1897.

Langtry, Lillie. 1852-1929.

Lansing, Robert. 1864-1928.

Lassalle, Ferdinand. 1825-1864.

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent. 1743-1794.

Lee, Robert Edward. 1807-1870.

Lennox, Countess of. (Margaret Douglas) 1515-1578.

Li Yuan-hung. 1864-1928.

Liebig, Baron Justus von. 1803-1873.

Liebknecht, Wilhelm. 1826-1900.

Lincoln, Abraham. 1809-1865.

Linnaeus, Carolus. 1707-1778.

Livingstone, David. 1813-1873.

Lloyd George, David. 1863-1945.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. 1850-1924.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 1807-1882.

Louis Napoleon. (Napoleon III) 1808-1873.

Louis XVI. 1754-1793.

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. 1776-1810.

Loyola, Saint Ignatius of. 1491-1556.

Lucretia.

Lupu, Vasile. ruled 1634-1653.

Luther, Martin. 1483-1546.

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Madison, Dolley. 1768-1849.

Maeterlinck, Count Maurice. 1862-1949.

Mahmud II. 1785-1839.

Maintenon, Marquise de. (Françoise d'Aubigné) 1635-1719.

Mancini, Marie. 1640?-1699.

Mann, Horace. 1796-1859.

Margaret of Anjou. 1430-1482.

Margaret of Austria. (Margaret of Parma) 1522-1586.

Margaret of Parma. (Margaret of Austria) 1522-1586.

Margaret of Savoy. 1851-1925.

Maria Theresa. 1717-1780.

Martineau, Harriet. 1802-1876.

Marx, Karl. 1818-1883.

Mary, Queen of Scots. (Mary Stuart) 1542-1587.

McKinley, William. 1843-1901.

Meade, George Gordon. 1815-1872.

Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Louise of. 1776-1810.

Medicis, Catherine de. 1519-1589.

Medjid, Abdul. 1839-1861.

Mehemet, Ali. 1815-1871.

Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von. 1773-1859.

Michael of Walachia. d.1601.

Michelangelo. 1475-1564.

Midhat Pasha. 1822-1884.

Milton, John. 1608-1674.

Mirabeau, Comte de. (Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti) 1749-1791.

Mitford, Mary Russel. 1787-1855.

Mohammed II. 1430-1481.

Mohammed V. 1844-1918.

Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. 1622-1673.

Moltke, Count Helmuth von. 1800-1891.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de. 1533-1592.

Montespan, Marquise de. (Francoise Athenais Rochechouart) 1641-1707.

Montpensier, Duchesse de. (Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans) 1627-1693.

Moore, Thomas. 1779-1852.

Morgan, John Piermont. 1786-1836.

Morse, Samuel F. 1791-1872.

Morton, Levi Parsons. 1824-1920.

Motono, Viscount Ichiro. 1862-1918.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. 1756-1791.

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Namik, Mehmed. 1840-1888.

Napoleon I. 1769-1821.

Napoleon III. 1808-1873.

Necker, Jacques. 1732-1804.

Nelson, Horatio. 1758-1805.

Newton, Sir Isaac. 1642-1727.

Nightingale, Florence. 1820-1910.

Nikolaievna, Olga. 1895-1918.

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Octavian. (Augustus) 63 BCE-14 CE.

Omer Pasha. 1806-1871.

Orléans, Anne Marie Louise d'. (Duchesse de Montpensier / La Grande Madmoiselle) 1627-1693.

Osgood, Francis Sargent. 1811-1850.

Osmeña, Sergio. 1878-1961.

Owen, Robert. 1771-1858.

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Page, Walter Hines. 1855-1918.

Pankhurst, Christabel. 1880-1958.

Pasha, Ali. 1741-1822.

Pasha, Enver. 1881?-1922.

Pasha, Mustafa Fazl. 1830-1875.

Paul, Saint. d.67?.

Pavlovich, Alexander. (Alexander I.) 1777-1825.

Peel, Sir Robert. 1788-1850.

Pertab Singh, Sir. 1845-1922.

Peter I Karageorgevich. 1844-1921.

Peter I. (Peter the Great) 1672-1725.

Pius IX. 1792-1878.

Pius VII. 1742-1823.

Pius X. 1835-1914.

Pocahontas. (Matoaka) 1595?-1617.

Poe, Edgar Allan. 1809-1849.

Poincaré, Raymond. 1860-1934.

Pompadour, Marquise de. (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson) 1720-1764.

Pompey the Great. 106-48 BCE.

Proudhon, Pierre Jospeh. 1809-1865.

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Quezon y Molinda, Manuel Luis. 1878-1944.

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Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaide. 1777-1849.

Rabelais, François. 1494?-1553.

Raphael. 1483-1520.

Redmond, John Edward. 1856-1918.

Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn. 1607-1669.

Reventlow, Count Ernst zu. 1869-1943.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua. 1723-1792.

Riqueti, Honoré Gabriel Victor. (Comte de Mirabeau) 1749-1791.

Robespierre, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de. 1758-1794.

Rochechouart, Françoise Athenaïs. (Marquis de Montespan) 1641-1707.

Rohan-Montbazon, Marie de. 1600-1679.

Roland, Jeanne Manon. 1754-1793.

Romanov, Nicholas. (Nicholas II) 1868-1918.

Roosevelt, Theodore. 1858-1919.

Rubens, Peter Paul. 1577-1640.

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Said Halim Pasha, Mehmet. 1863-1921.

Salandra, Antonio. 1853-1931.

Salomon, Louis étienne Félicité. 1820-1888.

San Martín, José de. 1778-1850.

Santi, Raffaello. (Raphael) 1483-1520.

Sappho. fl.c.600 BCE.

Sazonov, Sergei Dmitrievich. 1866-1927.

Schiff, Jacob Henry. 1847-1920.

Schiller, Johann Christoph Friederich von. 1759-1805.

Schweinfurth, Georg August. 1836-1925.

Scott, Sir Percy Moreton. 1853-1924.

Scott, Sir Walter. 1771-1832.

Scott, Winfield. 1786-1866.

Selim III. 1761-1808.

Seward, William Henry. 1801-1872.

Shakespeare, William. 1564-1616.

Shaw, George Bernard. 1856-1950.

Sherman, William Tecumseh. 1820-1891.

Siddons, Sarah. 1755-1831.

Singh, Sir Pertab. 1845-1922.

Somerville, Mary. 1780-1872.

Sonnino, Baron Sidney. 1847-1921.

Sophie. (Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice) 1870-1932.

Sorel, Agnès. 1422?-1450.

Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de. 1766-1817.

Stanley, Sir Henry Morton. 1841-1904.

Stanton, Edwin McMasters. 1814-1869.

Stein, Baron Heinrich Friederich Karl vom und zum. 1757-1831.

Stephenson, George. 1781-1848.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 1811-1896.

Stuart, Mary. (Mary Queen of Scots) 1542-1587.

Sturdza, Dimitrie. 1833-1914.

Sucre, Antonio José de. 1795-1830.

Suleiman II. 1496?-1566.

Sun Wen. (Sun Yat-sen) 1866-1925.

Sun Yat-sen. (Sun Wen / Chung San) 1866-1925.

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Taisho. (Yoshihito) 1879-1926.

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de. (Prince de Bénévent) 1754-1838.

Teba, Comtesse de. (Empress Eugénie) 1826-1920.

Tennyson, Alfred. 1809-1892.

Thackeray, William Makepeace. 1811-1863.

Thomas, George Henry. 1816-1870.

Tiberius. (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 BCE-37 CE.

Titian. (Tiziano Vecelli) 1477-1576.

Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo. 1397-1482.

Trotsky, Leon. (Leib Davydovich Bronstein) 1879-1940.

Truth, Sojourner. 1797-1883.

Tuan Chi-jui. 1864-1936.

Turgot, Anne Robert-Jacques. (Baron de l'Aulne) 1727-1781.

Tzepesh, Vlad. ruled 1455-1462; 1483-1496.

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius. 1794-1877.

Vecelli, Tiziano. (Titian) 1477-1576.

Venizelos, Eleutherios. 1864-1936.

Verneuil, Marquise de. (Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues) 1579-1633.

Victor Emmanuel II. 1820-1878.

Victor Emmanuel III. 1869-1947.

Victoria, Alexandrina. (Queen Victoria) 1819-1901.

Villiers, Barbara. (Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine) 1641-1709.

Vinci, Leonardo da. 1452-1519.

Viviani, René Raphaël. 1863-1925.

Voltaire, Franccedil;ois Marie Arouet. 1694-1778.

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Wallenstein, Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von. (Duke of Friedland and Mecklenburg) 1583-1634.

Washington, Booker Talaiferro. 1856-1915.

Washington, George. 1732-1799.

Washington, Martha. 1732-1802.

Washington, Olivia David. 1854-1889.

Watt, James. 1736-1819.

Webster, Daniel. 1782-1852.

Weslesly (Wellesley), Arthur. (Duke of Wellington) 1769-1852.

Wesley, John. 1703-1791.

West, Benjamin. 1738-1820.

Wheatley, Phillis. 1753?-1784.

Wilberforce, William. 1759-1833.

William I. (William the Conqueror) 1027-1087.

William II. (Fredrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert) 1859-1941.

Wilson, Thomas Woodrow. 1856-1924.

Wordsworth, William. 1770-1850.

Wu Ting-fang. 1842-1922.

Y

Yale, Elihu. 1649-1721.

Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Hans David Ludwig. 1757-1830.

Yoshihito. (Taisho) 1879-1926.

Yuan Shih-k'ai. 1859-1916.

Z

Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von. 1838-1917.

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