French Revolutionary Figures

Portraits of influential French figures from the revolutionary era, portrayed with detailed engravings, reflecting their political importance and historical context.

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, 31 May 1753, 31 October 1793, was one of the leaders of the Girondists in the French Revolution, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date not known

Nicolás Bergasse (1750-1832). French lawyer, philosopher and politician. In 1789 he was elected deputy to the Estates General, becoming an important face of the Monarchiens Party. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791). French politician, leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea-Ximénez de Urrea y Ponts de Mendoza, Count of Aranda, 1 August 1719, 9 January 1798, was a Spanish nobleman, enlightener a...

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard (1742-1810). French jurist and politician. He was elected deputy for the Third Estate of Paris to the Estates General of 1789 and then to the National Constituent Assembly. President of the National Convention (27 December 1792 to 10 January 1793). Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

Jean-Joseph Mounier (1758-1806). French politician and jurist. Elected deputy of the Third State for the Dauphiné to the Estates General of 1789. He defended constitutional monarchy. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, 31 May 1753, 31 October 1793, was one of the leaders of the Girondists in the French Revolution, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, original date not known

François-Antoine de Boissy d'Anglas (1756-1826). French writer and politician. Elected deputy of the Third Estate for the seneschalty of of Annonay to the Estates General in 1789 (25 March 1789 to 30 September 1791). Member of the National Convention (21 September 1792 to 26 October 1795). Member of the Council of Five Hundred (27 October 1795 to 4 September 1797). Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, part 2, 1879.

Edward Gibbon 1737 - 1794. English rationalist, historian and scholar. From The National and Domestic History of England by William Aubrey published London circa 1890

Juan Melendez Valdes (1754-1817). Spanish poet, jurist and politician. Portrait. Engraving. Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolucion de Espana by the Conde de Toreno. Madrid, 1851.

François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld (1747-1827), Duke of Liancourt and Duke de La Rochefoucauld (1792). French nobleman and military officer. He was elected to the Estates General in 1789, where he tried unsuccessfully to support the monarchy while promoting social reform. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876. Author: Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827-1869). Belgian artist.

Johann Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Salzburg, 1756-Viena, 1791).Compositor austríaco de música clásica. Grabado de 1883.

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729 - 1781, a poet of the German Enlightenment

PIERRE POIVRE French missionary, turned merchant and naturalist who smuggled plants to Reunion and Mauritius, later governor of Mauritius Date: 1719 - 1786

Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1730-1807), Baron de Breteuil. French diplomat and statesman. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Prince Friedrich Heinrich Ludwig of Prussia, 18 January 1726, 3 August 1802, was the 13th child of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and his wife Sophie Dorothea of Hanover, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Historical engraving from the 19th Century, portrait of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, 1711-1765, Russian scientist and poet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ((1756 - 1791). Composer of the Classical era. Engraving (later colouration). 19th century.

Johann Peter Zu, 3. Oktober 1720 - 12. Mai 1796, war ein deutscher Dichter / Johann Peter Zu, October 3, 1720 - May 12, 1796, was a German poet, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digital restaurierte Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, genaues Originaldatum nicht bekannt.

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Jozef Grassi, oil on canvas, circa 1783, 1757-1838, Russia, Moscow, State Central Glinka Museum of Music

MOZART , WOLFGANG AMADEUS. COMPOSITOR AUSTRIACO . 1756 - 1791. GRABADO RETRATO.

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French chemist, biologist and economist. Engraving, 1873.

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) French composer and musicologist.

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790. American statesman.Engraved by Pannemaker-Ligny after De La Charlerie. From ""Histoire de la Revolution Francaise"" by Louis Blanc.

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, 1724 - 1803, German poet, digitally edited Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660424

Carl Von Linne aka Linnaeus, 1707-1778. Swedish botanist and explorer. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Portrait of Johann Christian Kestner, 1741-1800, German jurist and archivist, famous as the husband of "Werther's Lotte", Charlotte Buff, in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play "The Sorrows of Young Werther", from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur by Gustav Koennecke, picture atlas, 1887

Atoine Francois Prevost know as the Abbe Prevost (1697-1763) 17th Century. French author novelist. Engraving 19th C.

Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French soldier, navigator and mathematician, c1890. Artist: Anon

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (2. Februar 1754) (17. Mai 1838) war einer der bekanntesten französischen Staatsmänner sowie Diplomat während d...

Portrait of Italian writer, philologist and playwright, Girolamo Gigli, engraving

Jacques Necker (1732-1804). French statesman and finance minister of king Louis XVI of France. Portrait. Engraving, 1903.

Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744-1803). German writer and philosopher. Engraving.

Nicolas Luckner (Johann Nikolaus Luckner) (1722-1794). German officer in the service of France who became a Marshal of France. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 1876.

Historic drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 1714 - 1788, a German composer, the most famous of the so-called sons of Bach

Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, a composer of the First Viennese School

Etienne-Francois de Choiseul, June 28, 1719, May 8, 1785, was Marquis de Removille, Seigneur de Chanteloup, Marquis de Stainville (since 1770), Duc de...

Stanislaw II Augustus (1732-1798). King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1764-1795). He was the last monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Portrait. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Millot. History of Poland, by Charles Foster. Panorama Universal, 1840.

Bernardo de Galvez (Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid) (1746-1786), 1st Count of Galvez. Lieutenant General and Viceroy of New Spain (17 June 1785 - 30 November 1786). Portrait. Lithography. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias (General Chronicle of Spain, Illustrated and Descriptive History of its Provinces), Antilles, 1871.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French politician and economist, early 19th century. Artist: William Thomas Fry

Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843). German lyric poet. Engraving.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826). French jurist and politician. He had to go into exile in the United States when the Reign of Terror began in 1793. Author of the first treatise on gastronomy, ""Physiologie du goût""(The Physiology of Taste), 1825. Portrait. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Juan Francisco de Guemes y Horcasitas (1681-1766), 1st Count of Revillagigedo. Spanish general, governor of Havana, captain general of Cuba, and viceroy of New Spain (1746-1755). Engraving.

BACH , JOHANN. COMPOSITOR ALEMAN . 1685 - 1750. GRABADO RETRATO.

Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, c1720 (1794). Artist: A Birrell.

Anne Louis Henri de La Fare (1752-1829). French prelate and statesman. Bishop of Nancy (1787-1816), he was elected deputy for the clergy to the Estates General in 1789, then emigrated. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Thomas Gainsborough, 1727 - 1788. English portrait and landscape artist. From an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a self portrait by Thomas Gainsborough.

Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800). French general who took part in the French Revolutionary Wars. Portrait. Engraving. "History of the French Revolution". Volume I, 2nd part, 1879.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French political philosopher, educationalist and author. Aquatint after portrait by Garneray from Pierre Michel Alix (1752-1817) series of portraits of eminent men.

Burkhard Christoph Graf von Muennich, Christofor Antonowitsch Minich, 19 May 1683, 27 October 1767, was a German-born engineer, field marshal general and politician in Russian service, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Count Francesco Algarotti, 1712 - 1764, an Italian writer, art critic and art dealer of the Enlightenment

Portrait of Philippe Claude Andre de Thubieres, Count of Caylus, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Jerome Petion de Villeneuve (1756-1794). French revolutionary, one of the Jacobin leaders. Elected mayor of Paris in November 1791. Portrait. Engraving. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Charles-Gilbert Romme (born 26 March 1750 in Riom died 17 June 1795 in Paris) was a mathematician and a politician during the French Revolution, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-81) French politician and economist. Engraving

John Boyle 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery 1707, 1762 English writer, John Boyle 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery 1707, 1762 English writer From the book A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors Volume IV published 1806, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

'Colinson', (1694-1768), 1830. Peter Collinson (1694-1768) Fellow of the Royal Society, avid gardener and friend of John Bartram who was in correspondence with Benjamin Franklin about electricity. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830

Louis-Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld d'Enville (1743-1792), 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld. French nobleman and politician. Elected deputy of the nobility for Paris to the Estates General in 1789. He was executed on 4 September 1792, during the September Massacres. Portrait. Drawing by Hippolyte de la Charlerie. Engraving by Pannemaker. ""History of the French Revolution"". Volume I, 1876.

Johann Ludwig Graf von Cobenzl, Johann Ludwig Joseph Graf Cobenzl, 21 November 1753, 22 February 1809, was an Austrian statesman, Historical, digital ...

Ludwig Von Beethoven. Baptized on December 17, 1770- 1827 German composerand pianist 19th century lithograph by Em. Baerentzen & Co.From the book ""Figaro. Journal of Literature,Art and Music"" by Georg Garstensen. Published 1841.

Bach; Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Compositor alemán; Grabado de 1890.

Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Eduard Mandel, Copper engraving, 1858, 1810-1882, Germany, Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Engraving of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, the English Statesman and orator who came to be known as Pitt the Elder. His second son was William Pitt (the Younger), who became British Prime Minister when aged only 24. Date: 1800

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel, 1741 - 1796, a German statesman, writer and social critic

Historical drawing from the 19th century, portrait of Moses Mendelssohn, 1729 - 1786, a German-Jewish philosopher of the Enlightenment

Johann Sebastian BACH 1685-1750 German composer

Historic print, copper engraving, 1766, portrait of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 1729 - 1781, a poet of the German Enlightenment, from Bildatlas zur Geschichte der Deutschen Nationalliteratur, an illustrated atlas by Gustav Koennecke, 1887

JOSEPH HAYDN Austrian musician and composer Date: 1732 - 1809

Historical illustration from the 19th century, portrait of August Wilhelm Iffland, 1759 - 1814, a German actor, director and playwright

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754-1838) usually known as Talleyrand, French diplomat.

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Austrian composer. Portrait. Engraving by R. Cremer, 1885.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. Portrait. Engraving by Sadurni.

Wolfang Amadeus Mozart, austrian composer. JOHANN WOLFGANG MOZART.

Frederick II or Frederick the Great, 24 January 1712-17 August 1786, popularly known as the Old Fritz, was King in, from 1772 King of Prussia and from 1740 Elector of Brandenburg, here at the age of 30, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American Printer, Publisher, Author, Inventor, Scientist, Diplomat and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and Ame

Thomas Baron Erskine

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803). German poet. Portrait. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal", by César Cantú. Volume IX, 1881.

Frederick II or Frederick the Great, 24 January 1712-17 August 1786, popularly known as the Old Fritz, was King in, from 1772 King of Prussia and from 1740 Elector of Brandenburg, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1726) English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author

Portrait of Johann Peter SALOMON, 1745-1815 composer, maestro of Haydn and Beethoven, engraving

Stanislaw II August, Stanislaw Antoni Poniatowski, January 17, 1732-12. February 179, came from the noble family of the Poniatowskis, was elected King...

Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Alix, Pierre-Michel (1762-1817)

Portrait of Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) an Italian classical era composer and cellist. Dated 18th Century

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Samuel Huntington, 1731 to 1796, American Statesman and Founding Father A signer of the Declaration of Independence Nineteenth century engraving by JB Longacre, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a nineteenth century original, Record date not stated

Voltaire (1694-1778) French Writer ca. 1830 Francois-Seraphin Delpech (1778-1825 French) Lithograph

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck, 1714-1787, German composer of the pre-classical period, opera composer of the 18th Century

Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715-1759), Prussian officer and poet

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer Date: 1685 - 1750

Italy, Bologna, Portrait of Nicola Antonio Porpora

Immanuel Kant, 22. April 1724, 12. Februar 1804, war ein deutscher Philosoph, der eine zentrale Figur in der modernen Philosophie ist, Historisch, dig...

Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, 1676-1745, British statesman and the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

1770s 1780s PORTRAIT OF GREAT AUSTRIAN COMPOSER WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART LOOKING AT CAMERA

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. Lithograph by Z. Belliard after J. L. David.

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750, German composer and organ and piano virtuoso of the Baroque

Franz Joseph Haydn 1732 1809, known as Joseph Haydn. Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the classical period.

Mozart at the Time of his Visit in Prague in 1787 19th Century, Artist Unknown Watercolor Mozart Museum, Prague

Moses Mendelssohn, 1729 - 1786. German Jewish philosopher.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN German composer Portrait Date: 1770 - 1827

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Karl Theodor Anton Maria Baron von Dalberg, 1744 - 1817, archbishop and statesman, writer, popular philosopher

Philip Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield 1694 n 1773 British statesman and man of letters, Philip Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfield 1694 n 1773 British statesman and man of letters From the book A catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors Volume IV published 1806, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

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