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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, (1933). Creator: Unknown

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, (1933). Portrait of French statesman Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Louis XIV's Chief Minister. He was responsible for reforming the chaotic financial administration and taxation system of France and oversaw the modernisation and expansion of manufacturing industry. His success in managing the French economy was particularly notable given the king's penchant for spending the nation's wealth on wars and luxury. Colbert was also instrumental in the development of France as a naval power. After a miniature by Robert Vouquer. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]

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Head of the Infant St. John - Virgin and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Head of the Infant St. John - Virgin and Child with St. Anne and Infant St. John, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

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Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington (1784-1862), 1907. English peer and so Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi

Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington (1784-1862): Little Mischief'. Leicester FitzGerald Charles Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington (1784-1862), styled The Honourable Leicester Stanhope until 1851, was an English peer and soldier. A stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) after Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). From The Connoisseur VOL. XVII, 1907

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