Joseph Addison
From the frontispiece of
The De Coverley Papers[:]
From the Spectator.
[write clever introduction]
Joseph Addison
From the frontispiece of
The De Coverley Papers[:]
From the Spectator.
Geoffrey Chaucer
From the Illustrated Magazine of Art, p. 9.
This looks a little bit like some (but not all)
of the early portraits of Chaucer
I've seen reproduced,
but is best considered, I believe,
as a mid 19th century interpretation of what Chaucer ought to have looked like.
I could be quite wrong, of course, as I'm certainly no authority
on portraits of Chaucer.
It does show up (same portrait, different scan) in at least one
professor's online Chaucer page.
It is worthwhile (and fun!) to read Chaucer in the original rather than in "translation."
Desiderius Erasmus
Portrait by Hans Holbein, from
Hans Holbein le jeune:
L'œuvre du maitre.
Identified as:
"Longford Castle, Comte de Radnor" from 1523
Here are several other portraits of Erasmus from the same source:
Bâle,
Musée Municipal (1523, writing, no background)
Paris, Louvre
(1523, writing, with background)
Parme, Galerie
(1530, with book)
Bâle,
Musée Municipal (undated, circular)
New York,
Metropolitan Museum (undated)
Paris, Walter Gay,
(undated, "D'après le Portrait de Longford Castle")
Hampton Court
(undated, "D'après le Portrait de Longford Castle")
St. Pétersbourg,
Ermitage (undated, with closed book)
Besançcon,
Museée ("Copie d'après le Portrait de Parme")
From Knackfuss, here are a different reproduction of the Louvre portrait, a woodcut in profile, a splendid woodcut frontispiece, and miniature in oils (Basle, circular, same as above).
Here is a different digitization of the portrait identified above as "Paris, Louvre." It is from the Perry-Castañeda Library Portraits.
Oliver Goldsmith
From the Illustrated Magazine of Art, p. 17.
"Drawn by Gilbert. Engraved by J. Linton."
He looks splendidly grumpy.
Hans Holbein
From
Hans Holbein le jeune:
L'œuvre du maitre.
Identified as "Bâle, Musée," 1523-1524.
I presume that this must be a self-portrait.
Here are two other self-portraits, identified as such,
from the same source:
Florence, Offices
(1543)
London,
Wallace Collection (undated, circular)
From Knackfuss, here are a different reproduction of the same self-portrait at Basle, a portrait of Hobein as a child, along with his brother, done in silverpoint by his father, and a self-portrait in Holbein's penultimate year.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
From the Illustrated Magazine of Art, p. 16.
"Drawn by Gilbert. Engraved by J. Linton."
Here is the
full original engraving,
showing "Dr. Johnson reading 'The Vicar of Wakefield.'"
Here is a different portrait. It is from the Perry-Castañeda Library Portraits.
John Milton
From the frontispiece of
Macaulay's An Essay on John Milton.
Michel de Montaigne
From the frontispiece of
Michel de Montaigne.
Thomas More
By Holbein, from
Knackfuss, p. 94.
From the same source here is a sketch by Holbein of the More family and a portrait by Holbein of More's father, John More.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
An artist? Yes.
From Bolton, facing p. 202.
Sir Philip Sidney
From the frontispiece of
Great
Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century.
Jonathan Swift
From the frontispiece of
British Essayists:
with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
From the
Parlour Table Companion.
Nicolas Bourbon de Vandoeuvre
By Holbein, from
Knackfuss, p. 138.
Thomas Wyatt
By Holbein, from
Knackfuss, p. 150.
Bolton, Sarah K. Famous Men of Science. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1889.
Note: Bolton's portrait of Morse is in turn taken from Evert A. Duyckinick's Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. (New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873).
Chalmers, A., Ed. British Essayists: with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855.
Curiously, this volume, with its frontispiece of Swift, is devoted to Nos. 43-105 of Addison & Steele's The Tatler.
Dowden, Edward. Michel de Montaigne. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905.
Hans Holbein le jeune: L'œuvre du maitre. Paris, Librairie Hachette & Cie., 1912.
The Illustrated Magazine of Art. Vol. 1, No. 1. (ca. 1853).
Knackfuss, H. Trans. Campbell Dodgson. Holbein. Bielefeld [Germany?]: Velhagen & Klasing, 1899.
Lee, Sidney. Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
Macaulay, Thomas B. An Essay on John Milton. NY: American Book Company, 1894.
Parlour Table Companion: A Home Treasury of Biography, Romance, Poetry, History, etc., etc., etc. Vol. 1, No. 3 (March 1876): 226 (frontis. to this issue). NY: G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, [issued bound into book form in] 1877.
Perry-Castañeda Library, University of Texas at Austin. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/index.html, in turn digitizing from:
The Perry-Castañeda Library makes it clear that these images are and remain in their digitizations in the public domain.
Shuster, Arthur and Arthur E. Shipley. Britain's Heritage of Science. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1917.
Thurber, Samuel, Ed. The DeCoverley Papers[:] From the Spectator. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1898.
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