Portraits of notable historians

[Linschoten]

I thought it might be a nice idea to start a gallery of portraits of notable historians, whether in works of art or photographs. To start off on a not too serious note, here is a psychedelic (and I fear rather ugly) portait of A.J.P. Taylor by Maggi Hambling:



And a caricature of the rather ugly Edward Gibbon with his pot belly:

 

[deaf tuner]

 

[Tammuz]

This is a picture of HERODOT from 1963 by Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most visionary painters ever. Unfortunately the image resolution is small and the image colors very pale.

 

[Swamp Booger]

I thought it might be a nice idea to start a gallery of portraits of notable historians, whether in works of art or photographs. To start off on a not too serious note, here is a psychedelic (and I fear rather ugly) portait of A.J.P. Taylor by Maggi Hambling:

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And a caricature of the rather ugly Edward Gibbon with his pot belly:View attachment 21096

Not nice to call other people ugly.

 

[Linschoten]

Not nice to call other people ugly.

I'll be careful never to say so in front of him, but dear Edward was really not notable for his beauty.

 

[Futurist]

I don't know if this would actually count for this, but here goes:

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

Here's his Wikipedia article: John Ruskin - Wikipedia

 

[Naomasa298]

Does the Venerable Bede count as a historian?

 

[Linschoten]

I don't know if this would actually count for this, but here goes:

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

Here's his Wikipedia article: John Ruskin - Wikipedia

I'm sure it would count. Looks as if the fish was off at his last meal.

 

[Linschoten]

Does the Venerable Bede count as a historian?

Of course!

 

[Naomasa298]

Portrait of Sima Qian, author of Records of the Grand Historian, a Han-dynasty work.

 

[Futurist]

I'm sure it would count. Looks as if the fish was off at his last meal.

Is the fish reference to the first or second portrait of him?

 

[Naomasa298]

Anthony Blunt - art historian and Soviet spy.

 

[Kirialax]

Niketas Choniates, 12-13th c. Byzantine historian and court functionary. His account centres around the crusader sack of Constantinople in 1204 and how it is all the fault of the Komnenoi and some bad Angeloi and definitely no blame should be applied to Niketas Choniates, who had some sort of senior position in the government of the latter. After the establishment of the Imperium Romaniae by the crusaders he went to the nascent Laskarid court in Asia Minor, where he failed to find much sympathy despite writing some encomiastic orations about Theodore I Laskaris and a major theological work (which was likely a commission by the government).

 

[Rodger]

Does the Venerable Bede count as a historian?

Of course!

I concur and a quite prolific one at that.[/QUOTE]

 

[Eye of Woland]

Giorgio Vasari self-portrait

 

[Talbot Vilna]

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903), History of Rome, Vols. I - IV, 1894-1908


Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.

 

[Talbot Vilna]

Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), The Decline of the West

 

[Linschoten]

Mommsen was a man of striking appearnace, and there are several portraits of him by Franz von Lenbach:

 

[Linschoten]

Lytton Strachey with .... Ottoline Morrell:

 

[Tulius]

Alexandre Herculano:

Major Works:

“History of Portugal: 1st period, from the origin of the monarchy to D. Afonso III” - 1846-1853
“History of the Origin and Establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal” - 1854-1859
“Portugaliæ Monumenta Historica” - 1856-1873 (collection of primary sources)