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Reproductive stipple engraver.

American painter and engraver. His early work was mainly as an engraver and he established his reputation with his print after John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence and with portraits of eminent contemporaries. In the 1830s he turned increasingly to painting.

Assistant to the elder Thomas Cadell (1742–1802), bookseller and publisher, when he was chosen by him in 1793 as a partner for his youthful son Thomas Cadell the younger (1773–1836) in the management of his business. From that time the business traded as Cadell and Davies, and Cadell the younger left the management of the business to his partner until Davies fell ill in 1813.

Painter and portrait and figure engraver.

Napoleon’s niece. Secretly married Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart at a Catholic church near Rome in 1824.

Irish-born painter, specializing in historical subject paintings.

American diplomat.

German naturalist and explorer who made major contributions to various sciences, including geology, geomagnetism, and meteorology.

From 1830, Lady of the bedchamber to the queen dowager Adelaide.

Whig politician.

Engraver, mainly in line.

One of Virginia's foremost orators.

In 1827 he became professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, a post he held until his death. During his forty-year career he created about 275 works and early on distinguished himself as a leading sculptor of civic and national monuments.

Bolívar was active in the Latin-American independence movement from 1808 onwards. Although his military career was not without its failures, he succeeded in driving the Spanish from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador; Upper Peru was named Bolivia in his honour.