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Portraits and artworks.
Open public-domain and Creative Commons images attached to author and figure pages.

Ada Lovelace
Ada Byron daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet 1843 or 1850 - cropped · 2019-10-01
Antoine Claudet
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
File:Ada Byron daguerreotype by Antoine Claudet 1843 or 1850.jpg , Own work

Aeschylus
Aeschylusathens · 2014-04-29 22:06:20
Tilemachos Efthimiadis
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/telemax/5710524254

Alan Turing
Alan Turing (1951) (crop) · 1951-03-29
Elliott & Fry
Source page · Public domain
https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1949/

Alexandre Dumas
Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870) · 1855
Nadar
Source page · Public domain
ZgHm9RK24bLVIg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level


Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty · before 1922
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
https://www.alamy.com/anna-sewell-author-of-black-beauty-image697931150.html

Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope 1 · 1883
Trollope
Source page · Public domain
An autobiography (free pdf from archive.org)

Apuleius
Apuleius-Kontorniat · 4 th century
Johann Jacob Bernoulli
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Johann Jacob Bernoulli, Römische Ikonographie , Bd. 1: Die Bildnisse berühmter Römer mit Ausschluss der Kaiser und ihrer Angehörigen . Stuttgart u.a. 1882, Münztaf. 5,117.

Aristophanes
Bust of Aristophanes · 2018-10-07 12:13:15
Alexander Mayatsky
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Aristotle
Aristotle Altemps Inv8575 · after 330 BC
After Lysippos
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Jastrow (2006)


Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b · March 1859
Johann Schäfer
Source page · Public domain
Frankfurt am Main University Library

Augustine of Hippo
Saint Augustine Alternative title: Saint Augustin · between circa 1645 and circa 1650
Philippe de Champaigne
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: online database: entry 171584

Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Portret van Aulus Cornelius Celsus, RP-P-1908-2809 · 1719
Georg Paul Busch
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC0
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.89565

Benedict of Nursia
Crucifixion with Saints · 1441
Fra Angelico
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN : 3936122202 .

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · circa 1785
Joseph-Siffred Duplessis
Source page · Public domain
ZgEyj5EEKdux-g at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level


Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernhard von Clairvaux (Initiale-B) · circa 1267
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Initial B from a 13th century illuminated manuscript: Legenda Aurea (Keble MS 49, fol 162r)

Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (1623-1672) · circa 1690
unknown; a copy of the painting of François II Quesnel, which was made for Gérard Edelinck en 1691 [réf. nécessaire] .
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Own work

Boethius
Boethius initial consolation philosophy · 2008-09-26 19:10:47
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/boethius.html
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/boethius.html

Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker 1906 · circa 1906
unidentified photographer
Source page · Public domain
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/travel/bram-stoker-dracula-yorkshire.html

Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin 5 · 2017-03-24
Viaggio Routard
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/viaggioroutard/32778675934/in/photolist-BdSTE-SzMwoq-7agemG-2maDNeo-oUcXb7-6ZNXgc-RWxhn5-aqQGpN-3hbDBX-pJD3-rUnxtX-iFgxYW-7BVm2c-3JwuMX-3sLJmF-7Uy6nN-r6qgY5-4Euy2Q-4bmCF5-noFxq-9Gn76-TjTNjL-SCrTBL-SF986M-TF36qW-TjTNu5-TjTNK5-4EuxZL-q1uNgZ-qhSSAJ-rMT4k-SF9892-5F3obH-JSFvnS

Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) · 19 th century
Wilhelm Wach
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Unknown source Unknown source

Charlemagne
Monnaie. Denier, indéterminé, Charlemagne · 2023-08-29 14:11:28
Charlemagne. Autorité émettrice de monnaie indéterminé. Atelier monétaire. Émetteur
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Bibliothèque nationale de France

Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage - 1860 · 1860
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=Charles+Babbage&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCharles%2BBabbage%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D916%26tbs%3Disz:l%26tbm%3Disch&imgurl=19fc9fba4ea4a1cb

Charles Dickens
Dickens Gurney head · between 1867 and 1868
Jeremiah Gurney
Source page · Public domain
Heritage Auction Gallery

Charles Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon · 1885
Alexander Melville
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.

Claude Shannon
ClaudeShannon MFO3807 · 2015-12-02
Jacobs, Konrad
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=3807


Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer · 1939
Unknown author
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project . The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive .

Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (author) · Unknown date
University of Houston
Source page · Public domain
Donald Barthelme , Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries .

Dorothy Parker
Young Dorothy Parker · est. in the 1910s or early 1920s
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
http://www.litkicks.com/DorothyParker

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored, squared off · 1849-06
Unknown author Unknown author ; Restored by Yann Forget and Adam Cuerden
Source page · Public domain
Derived from File:Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1849, restored.jpg ; originally from http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=39406

Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell · 2011-08-08 23:20:09
George Richmond
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Originally from de.wikipedia ; description page is (was) here


Euripides
Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302 · 2006
Marie-Lan Nguyen
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Own work

Eusebius
Eusebius · 1911
Artaud de Montor, Alexis François
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
https://archive.org/details/livesofpopes01artauoft

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Burnett · 2006-05-12 19:29:37
Herbert Rose Barraud (1845-1896)
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
scan by Phrood

Francis Bacon
Portrait of Francis Bacon. · 1617
Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger
Source page · Public domain
pl.pinterest.com

Francis of Assisi
StFrancis part · 2006-09-10
Parzi
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Own work basing on Stfrancis.jpg from WikiCommons

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass as a younger man · 1855
Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerreotype.
Source page · Public domain
Frontispiece: Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I- Life as a Slave, Part II- Life as a Freeman, with an introduction by James M'Cune Smith. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan (1855)

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche187a · circa 1875
Friedrich Hermann Hartmann
Source page · Public domain
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/04/10/0b/04100baec90c105729b47f33c371476b.jpg

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky · 1872
Vasily Perov
Source page · Public domain
Google Arts & Culture — kgHBFHS7SpcayQ

Galen
Galenus · 18 th century
Georg Paul Busch (engraver)
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
The Lancet image Much better source with US-GOV license: 2037x3566 TIFF JPG

Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer · 19 th century
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the National Library of Wales You can view this image in its original context on the NLW Catalogue

George Washington
George Washington · 1803
Gilbert Stuart
Source page · Public domain
https://www.clarkart.edu/ArtPiece/Detail/George-Washington

George Whitefield
George Whitefield (head) · 1770
John Russell
Source page · Public domain
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?sText=George+Whitefield+&submitSearchTerm.x=9&submitSearchTerm.y=12&page=1&search=ss&OConly=true&firstRun=true&role=sit&LinkID=mp04806&rNo=1

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German: Bildnis des Philosophen Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz Portrait of Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher · 1695
Christoph Bernhard Francke
Source page · Public domain
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, online

Graham Greene
Graham Greene angol író, 1975 Fortepan 84697 · 1975
FOTO:Fortepan — ID 84697 : Adományozó/Donor: Magyar Hírek folyóirat. archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
http://www.fortepan.hu/_photo/download/fortepan_84697.jpg archive copy at the Wayback Machine

Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant par Nadar · circa 1888
Nadar
Source page · Public domain
This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b53155773n/f1

H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft, June 1934 · 1934-06
Lucius B. Truesdell
Source page · Public domain
Original publication : 1934 Immediate source : http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/gallery.aspx

Hans Fallada
Erich Ohser Hans Fallada 1943 · 1943
e.o.plauen, das ist Erich Ohser
Source page · Public domain
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 21. Januar 2017, S. 19 (akg-images)


Henry James
Henry James · 1913; bequeathed to NPG in 1916
John Singer Sargent (died 1925)
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.

Heraclitus
Ca' Rezzonico - Eraclito 1705 - Giuseppe Torretti · Taken on 4 May 2019
Didier Descouens
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Herman Melville
Herman Melville by Joseph O Eaton · May 1870
Joseph Oriel Eaton
Source page · Public domain
Houghton Library - Harvard University - Modern Books and Manuscripts

Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse 2 · Unknown date
Unknown author
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl
[1] [2] Dutch National Archives, The Hague, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989

Herodotus
Marble bust of Herodotos · 2nd century A.D.
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art . See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC0
This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the Metropolitan Museum of Art . See the Image and Data Resources Open Access Policy

Hippocrates
Hippocrates rubens · 1638
Paulus Pontius / After Peter Paul Rubens
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine [1] .

Homer
Homer bust, Farnese collection (Naples) · 2022-04-02
NikonZ7II
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer · 1555
Unidentified painter
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.


Ivan Turgenev
Portrait of writer Ivan Turgenev · 1874
Ilya Repin
Source page · Public domain
http://lj.rossia.org/users/john_petrov/866634.html

Jack Kerouac
Kerouac by Palumbo · circa 1956
Tom Palumbo from New York, NY, USA
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
Jack Kerouac

James Madison
James Madison · 1816
John Vanderlyn
Source page · Public domain
Ths White House Historical Association . the painting is in the White House collection [1]

Jane Austen
CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires · circa 1810
Cassandra Austen
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) · third quarter of 18 th century
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Source page · Public domain
Unknown source Unknown source

Joan of Arc
Contemporaine afb jeanne d arc · 1429-05-10
Clément de Fauquembergue
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons by Koektrommel using CommonsHelper .

John Adams
John Adams · circa 1800
Gilbert Stuart
Source page · Public domain
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

John Calvin
Dutch: Portret van Johannes Calvijn (1509-1564) Portrait of John Calvin · Circa 1550
Anonymous ( France ) Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
www.catharijneconvent.nl : Home : Info

John Chrysostom
Johnchrysostom · 2011-02-05 10:14:11
Unknown creator
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Unknown creator

John Donne
John Donne (copy after an original of 1616) · Unknown date, but author died in 1622
After Isaac Oliver
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.

John Locke
Portrait of John Locke · 1697
Godfrey Kneller
Source page · Public domain
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped) · 1939-11
McFadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited; photo likely the work of Sonya Noskowiak, as Steinbeck is wearing the same clothes from her 1935 studio session that produced the work shown here: https://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2006.74
Source page · Public domain
Photoplay , November 1939 (page 22) Photograph is flipped horizontally for magazine publication

John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870 · circa 1870
London Stereoscopic Company
Source page · Public domain
Hulton Archive

John Wesley
Portrait of John Wesley · between 1788 and 1789
George Romney
Source page · Public domain
https://www.philamuseum.org/collection/object/103826

Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards · 1860
Henry Augustus Loop after Joseph Badger
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Princeton University Art Museum

Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift · 1710 (See Swift's Journal to Stella, Number 3, Dated 9 September 1710)
Charles Jervas
Source page · Public domain
one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof . This may be due to recognition of the " sweat of the brow " doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions. As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement . Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information.

Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad-remastered to black and white · 1904
George Charles Beresford
Source page · Public domain
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01005/joseph-conrad

Julius Caesar
Retrato de Julio César (26724093101) (cropped) · 2022-05-27 03:13:06
Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Retrato de Julio César

Kurt Godel
1925 kurt gödel · between 1924 and 1927
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
Familienalbum der Familie Gödel, Scan from Gianbruno Guerrerio, Kurt Gödel - Logische Paradoxien und mathematische Wahrheit , S.24

Leo Tolstoy
L.N.Tolstoy Prokudin-Gorsky · 23 May 1908
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
Source page · Public domain
http://vm1.culture.ru/gosudarstvennyy_muzey_tolstogo/catalog/0003600108/

Leslie Marmon Silko
Headliner Leslie Marmon Silko at the banquet reading (6233509362) · 2011-03-01 02:59
Uche Ogbuji from Superior, Colorado, USA
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
Headliner Leslie Marmon Silko at the banquet reading

Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott, c. 1870 - Warren's Portraits, Boston · 1870
Adam Cuerden
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.53264 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

Lucretius
Lucretius1 · 2012-04-04
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC0
File:Lucretius1.jpg

Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Louvre MR561 n02 · circa 161–169 AD
Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY 2.5
Marie-Lan Nguyen (2011)

Mariano Azuela
Azuela mariano · 2015-06-04
Tomjc.55
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Marie de France
Marie de France detail from BNF Arsenal MS 3142 f 256 · 2020-06-29 19:47:43
Richard of Verdun
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
englishare.net

Mark Twain
MarkTwain.LOC · Copyright 1907
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a08820 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .


Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Color Portrait (high quality) · 1966
Associated Press
Source page · Public domain
Sepia June 1968

Martin of Tours
Freskenzyklus mit Szenen aus dem Leben des Hl. Martin von Tours, Kapelle in Unterkirche San Francesco in Assisi, Szene: Der meditierende Heilige, Detail · 1322-1326
Simone Martini
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN : 3936122202 .


Michel de Montaigne
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé · 1578
anonymous
Source page · Public domain
Unknown source Unknown source

Miguel de Cervantes
Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1615) · circa 1600
Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui
Source page · Public domain
1. Unknown source Unknown source 2. cervantesvirtual.com 3. Bridgeman Art Library : Object 119216


Molière
French: Molière Molière · 1658
Pierre Mignard I
Source page · Public domain
The png version was converted to jpg at Quality "8" with Photoshop Elements 10

Montesquieu
Montesquieu (5) · 25 January 2021, 15:43:58 (according to Exif data)
Archives départementales de l'Hérault (France) DAASI
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Napoleon Bonaparte
The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries · 1812
Jacques-Louis David
Source page · Public domain
zQEbF0AA9NhCXQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne · between circa 1860 and circa 1865
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Source page · Public domain
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Soseki photo · 1912-09
Ogawa Kazumasa
Source page · Public domain
1. Jiten [1] , 2. The Japan Times article, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts [2]

Nella Larsen
NellaLarsen1928 · 2023-01-21 00:35:43
Unknown creator
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Unknown creator

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela 1994 · Taken on 4 October 1994
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
Flickr : NELSON MANDELA

Niccolo Machiavelli
Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli · from 1550 until 1600
Santi di Tito
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Cropped and enhanced from a book cover found on Google Images.

Norbert Wiener
Norbert wiener · 2009-03-04 17:06:46
Konrad Jacobs
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0 de
https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=4520

Ovid
Ovid by an anonymous sculptor · 2020-08-05
Lucasaw
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda 1963 · 1963
Unknown ( Mondadori Publishers )
Source page · Public domain
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/three-quarter-face-portrait-of-a-thoughtful-pablo-neruda-news-photo/174306045

Paul Auster
Paul Auster BBF 2010 Shankbone · 2010-09-12
David Shankbone
Source page · CC BY 3.0
Shankbone

Plato
Plato Silanion Musei Capitolini MC1377 · 2009
Marie-Lan Nguyen
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY 2.5
Own work

Pliny the Elder
Grande Illustrazione del Lombardo Veneto Vol 3 Plinio Secondo 300dpi · 1859
Geoffrey
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Cesare Cantù, Grande Illustrazione del Lombardo Veneto ossia storia delle città, dei borghi etc., Milano 1859, Vol. III

Plutarch
Plutarch of Chaeronea-03 · 2013-10-12 21:08:53
Odysses
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Own work

Rene Descartes
Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650) · 1649
After Frans Hals
Source page · Public domain
André Hatala [e.a.] (1997) De eeuw van Rembrandt , Bruxelles: Crédit communal de Belgique, ISBN 2-908388-32-4 .

Robert Burton
Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson · 1635
Gilbert Jackson
Source page · Public domain
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/robert-burton-157615771640-221716

Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry Walter Barnett bw · 1893
Henry Walter Barnett
Source page · Public domain
State Library of New South Wales

Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio) - stained glass, Saint Patrick - detail · 2015-03-21 14:44:21
Nheyob
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 4.0
Own work

Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow · 1999
Zoran Tucić
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Book Razgovori (Conversations), Književna reč, Belgrade, 1999

Seneca
Duble herma of Socrates and Seneca Antikensammlung Berlin 07 · 2004-05-21
Calidius
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Own work

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt (cropped) · circa 1921
Max Halberstadt
Source page · Public domain
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6116407

Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup 001 (cropped) · 1855
Frederick M. Coffin (engraved by Nathaniel Orr)
Source page · Public domain
Solomon Northup (1855) Twelve Years a Slave ( Archive.org )

Sophocles
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek - Sophokles · 2008-07-23
Wolfgang Sauber
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Own work

Soren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) - (cropped) · circa 1840
La Biblioteca Real de Dinamarca
Source page · Public domain
https://www.flickr.com/photos/45270502@N06/9645352916/

St. Dymphna
The beheading of Saint Dymphna · 1688
Godfried Maes
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=X001222&objnr=71495&nr=12

St. Vitus
Saint Vitus in Memphis · 2012-09-15 23:43:27
Debbie Ramone
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
Flickr : St. Vitus

Stefan Zweig
Zweig Setzer 1927 · 1927
Franz Xaver Setzer (1886-1939)
Source page · Public domain
https://www.information.dk/kultur/anmeldelse/2015/10/vigtigt-stridsskrift

Stella Gibbons
Stella-gibbons-web · 2009-03-24
Jburlinson
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Own work

Sts. Cosmas and Damian
Saints Cosmas and Damian, miniature from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany . · circa 1503–1508
Jean Bourdichon
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID ark:/12148/btv1b52500984v/f355.item

Sts. Roch and Sebastian
Saint Roch and Saint Sebastian · circa 1700
North Italian Painter
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Ildikó Horányi: Beszél majd az utókor..., in: Artmagazin, 2013-05-10

Suetonius
Suetonius etching (cropped) · 1815–1851
Achille Réveil
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1901-1022-1554

Sun Tzu
吴司马孙武 · Qing Dynasty
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Qing Palace Collection Picture Book. Beijing: Palace Museum Press. 1994.

T. E. Lawrence
Te lawrence · 1919 (Interwar)
Harris & Ewing
Source page · Public domain
pavellas.blogspot.com This photograph Q 73538 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums .

Tacitus
Tacitus, Cornelius (50 - 116) · 18 th century
Unknown author
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
https://www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=8095637


Theophrastus
Teofrasto Orto botanico detail · 2009-02-11 21:34
Teofrasto_Orto_botanico_PA.jpg : tato grasso derivative work: Singinglemon ( talk )
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.5
Teofrasto_Orto_botanico_PA.jpg

Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas · 1476
Carlo Crivelli
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
This file was derived from: St-thomas-aquinas.jpg :

Thomas Becket
BecketHenryII (Thomas Becket) · between 1307 and 1327
Peter of Langtoft
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/SODimages3/108_BecketHenryII.jpg ; original held in British Library, Royal 20 A II folio.

Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (copy after an original of c.1669–1670) · 2008-11-16 05:44:48
John Michael Wright
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
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Thomas Jefferson
Rembrandt Peale - Thomas Jefferson · 1800
Rembrandt Peale
Source page · Public domain
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/presidential-portraits

Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809) · circa 1876
Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant 1870-1880 · between 1870 and 1880
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cwpbh.03890 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush, 1938, Harris & Ewing (cropped) · 1938
Harris & Ewing
Source page · Public domain
MIT Museum, GCP-00003581


Virgil
Parco della Grotta di Posillipo5 (crop) · 2010-04-11
Armando Mancini
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Own work

Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf 1927 · circa 1927
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University

Voltaire
French: Portrait de Voltaire (1694-1778) en 1718 Voltaire the age of twenty-four (?) · from 1718 until 1724
Nicolas de Largillière
Source page · CC0
Nicolas de Largillière

Vyasa
Sculpture of Vyasa · 2012-01-28 17:39:45
Yogesa
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 3.0
Own work

Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman - George Collins Cox · 1887
George Collins Cox / Adam Cuerden
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.07549 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

Willa Cather
Willa Cather ca. 1912 wearing necklace from Sarah Orne Jewett (cropped) · 1912
Photographer: Aime Dupont Studio, New York
Source page · Public domain
Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

William Faulkner
Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped) · 1954-12-11
Carl Van Vechten
Source page · Public domain
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3f06403 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

William James
William James by Alice M. Boughton, c. 1907, platinum print, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-NPG 87 37James-000001 (cropped) · circa 1907
Alice Boughton
Source page · Public domain
National Portrait Gallery

William Shakespeare
Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1646) · 1648
Attributed to John Taylor
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Official gallery link

William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman · 2007-12-18 02:57:39
Mathew Benjamin Brady
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · Public domain
Library of Congress , Prints and Photographs Division , Brady-Handy Collection , reproduction number LC-DIG-cwpbh-04445 .

Winston Churchill
The Roaring Lion · 30 December 1941
Flickr : Sir Winston Churchill
Source page · Public domain
Flickr : Sir Winston Churchill

Xenophon
Bust of Xenophon · 2020-02-15
Carole Raddato
Posthumous or imagined likeness.
Source page · CC BY-SA 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/53387950886/

Yevgeny Zamyatin
Zamjatin · 2009-12-20
Unknown author
Source page · Public domain
http://orwell.ru/people/zamyatin/img/ez01w.jpg