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Historical portraits

Historical paintings, engravings and photographs, supplied through Wikimedia Commons. Images are displayed in oval frames, so parts of the originals are cropped in the page layout. Original image files are retained. The two Bundesarchiv portraits remain available under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE and the Vesalius image under CC BY 4.0.

• Elizabeth I

  Unidentified painter · 1575. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

• Mary, Queen of Scots

  François Clouet · 1558–1560. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

• John F. Kennedy

  Cecil W. Stoughton · 1963-07-11. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

• Gustav Stresemann

  Bundesarchiv / photographer unknown · circa 1928/29. CC BY-SA 3.0 de. Source and catalogue.

• Friedrich Ebert

  Bundesarchiv / photographer unknown · Taken on 15 February 1925. CC BY-SA 3.0 de. Source and catalogue.

• Rosa Luxemburg

  Photographer unknown · c.1911. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

• Philip II of Spain

  Sofonisba Anguissola · 1565. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

• Andreas Vesalius

  Wellcome Collection · Date not supplied in source catalogue. CC BY 4.0. Source and catalogue.

• Galen

  Georg Paul Busch (engraver) · 18th century. Public domain. Source and catalogue.

  This is a later imagined likeness, not a portrait made during Galen’s lifetime.