William Shakespeare
Historical painted portrait
Chandos portrait; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Faces behind the words
The portrait gallery.
Explore 22 historical portraits and photographs. Later artistic depictions are identified as such; they are not presented as eyewitness likenesses.
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Emily Dickinson
Historical daguerreotype
Restored historical daguerreotype; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photographic portrait, 1857
Josiah Johnson Hawes; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
.jpg?width=480 "Traditional painted depiction; not a lifetime portrait. Tang-dynasty depiction; public domain · Public domain. Image details: /portrait-credits")
Confucius
Traditional painted depiction; not a lifetime portrait
Tang-dynasty depiction; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
.jpg?width=480 "Watercolour portrait by Cassandra Austen. Cassandra Austen, circa 1810; public domain · Public domain. Image details: /portrait-credits")
Jane Austen
Watercolour portrait by Cassandra Austen
Cassandra Austen, circa 1810; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Kahlil Gibran
Historical photographic portrait
Fred Holland Day / Metropolitan Museum of Art; CC0. CC0. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Marcus Aurelius
Later sculptural depiction by Laurys Gillis, 1737
Laurys Gillis / Rijksmuseum; CC0. CC0. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Photographic portrait, 1882
Gustav Adolf Schultze; public domain. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Oscar Wilde
Photographic portrait by Napoleon Sarony
Napoleon Sarony. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Mark Twain
Historical photographic portrait
A. F. Bradley, New York. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Albert Einstein
Photographic portrait by Oren Jack Turner
Oren Jack Turner. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Charlotte Brontë
Painted portrait by Branwell Brontë
Branwell Brontë; restored reproduction. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Painted portrait by Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov; Google Art Project reproduction. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Henry David Thoreau
Historical photographic portrait
Benjamin D. Maxham; restored reproduction. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Walt Whitman
Photographic portrait by George Collins Cox
George Collins Cox; restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Virginia Woolf
Photographic portrait, 1902
George Charles Beresford; restoration by Adam Cuerden. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Marie Curie
Photographic portrait, circa 1920s
Henri Manuel. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Franz Kafka
Photographic portrait, 1923
Unknown photographer. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Rabindranath Tagore
Photographic portrait, 1926
Georges Chevalier. CC BY 4.0. Displayed in a portrait crop.
%20(cropped).jpg?width=480 "Photographic portrait, circa 1879. George Kendall Warren; cropped reproduction · Public domain. Image details: /portrait-credits")
Frederick Douglass
Photographic portrait, circa 1879
George Kendall Warren; cropped reproduction. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
.jpg?width=480 "Colour photographic portrait, 1908. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii; cropped reproduction · Public domain. Image details: /portrait-credits")
Leo Tolstoy
Colour photographic portrait, 1908
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii; cropped reproduction. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Painted portrait by John Opie
John Opie. Public domain. Displayed in a portrait crop.