Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.
Thomas Phillips was a leading English portrait and subject painter. He painted many of the great men of the day including scientists, artists, writers, poets and explorers.
Albanian art refers to all artistic expressions and artworks in Albania or produced by Albanians. The country's art is either work of arts produced by its people and influenced by its culture and traditions. It has preserved its original elements and traditions despite its long and eventful history around the time when Albania was populated to Illyrians and Ancient Greeks and subsequently conquered by Romans, Byzantines, Venetians and Ottomans.
Lord Byron's Dream is a landscape painting by the British artist and future president of the Royal Academy Charles Lock Eastlake, from 1827.
The House of Commons, 1833 is a large history painting by the British artist George Hayter. It depicts the first meeting of the House of Commons following the 1832 Great Reform Act and the subsequent general election that produced a landslide majority for the ruling Whig Government. In the Victorian era the painting was often known as The First Reformed Parliament.
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo is a 1778 painting by the English artist Richard Samuel. It depicts nine prominent British literary and artistic women as Muses in the Temple of Apollo and is also known as The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1779.
The Portrait of Lord Mansfield is a 1783 portrait painting by the Anglo-American artist John Singleton Copley. It depicts the Scottish politician and lawyer William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield who was serving as Lord Chief Justice at the time. He is shown in his robes as a member of the House of Lords where he sat as the Earl of Mansfield.
Portrait of Benjamin West is a 1785 portrait painting by the American artist Gilbert Stuart of the noted Anglo-American painter Benjamin West. West, a future President of the Royal Academy settled in Britain during the 1760s. His epic 1770 battle painting The Death of General Wolfe established him as a leading artist.
Portrait of Lord Melbourne is a portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence portraying the British Whig politician and future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. It is also known as the Portrait of William Lamb as he had not yet inherited the title from his father when it was painted. It is today in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Portrait of Lord Palmerston is an 1845 portrait painting of the British politician and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston by the artist John Partridge. Along with Partridge's Portrait of Lord Melbourne and a painting of Lord Aberdeen the painting was likely done in preparation for the artist's work The Fine Arts Commissioners. Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London having been acquired in 1896.
Portrait of Sir Humphry Davy is an 1821 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Lawrence. It depicts the scientist Sir Humphry Davy, president of the Royal Society. Davy is known for the invention of the Davy Lamp and isolating a number of elements using electricity. It shows Davy in the stance of a swagger portrait dressed in fashionable Regency era style. A Davy Lamp sits on the table next to him.
Portrait of Earl Grey is an 1820 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Phillips depicting the British aristocrat and Whig politician Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who later became Prime Minister.
Portrait of Ada Lovelace is an 1836 portrait painting by the British artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter depicting the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
Portrait of Lord Byron is a c.1814 portrait painting by the English painter Thomas Phillips of the British aristocrat and poet Lord Byron.
Portrait of Lord North is a portrait painting of 1756 by the Italian artist Pompeo Batoni of the British politician and future prime minister Lord North.
Portrait of Richard Parkes Bonnington is a portrait painting by the English artist Margaret Sarah Carpenter, from c. 1827-1830. It depicts her fellow artist Richard Parkes Bonington
Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is an 1814 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Phillips depicting the Anglo-Irish soldier and politician Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Wellington had recently returned to London from Continental Europe where he had been serving without break since 1809. His success in the Peninsular War was followed by an invasion of Southern France before the Treaty of Paris brought peace. The following year he would lead Allied forces to victory at the Battle of Waterloo following the escape of Napoleon and the Hundred Days campaign.
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli is an 1881 portrait painting by the English artist John Everett Millais featuring the British politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Known in his youth as a novelist, Disraeli turned to politics during the Victorian era and twice held the premiership. He was made Earl of Beaconsfield in 1876.
Portrait of Lady Caroline Montagu is an 1831 portrait painting by the English artist George Hayter depicting the British aristocrat Lady Caroline Montagu. She was the daughter of the Duke of Manchester and the wife of the Tory Member of Parliament John Calcraft. She is portrayed in Byronic style as Haidée from the poem Don Juan by Lord Byron, with her costume combining fashionable British evening dress and a headdress of Neapolitan peasant costume.
Quentin Durward at Liège is an 1828 oil painting by the British-French artist Richard Parkes Bonington. It depicts an episode from the novel Quentin Durward by Walter Scott set during the Wars of Liège in the fifteenth century. Translated into French, the novel enjoyed great popularity. Bonington shows the moment that Durward, a naïve young Scotsman is mistaken by the inhabitants of Liège as part of an advance guard of an army sent by Louis XI of France to assist them in their rising against the Duke of Burgundy. He is paraded in the street between two burghers and hailed almost a saviour by the inhabitants. As in the novel Durward is portrayed as a Don Quixote-type figure.
