Find Hotels and Inns by Famous Historic Figure
Listings are given by surname, except those for monarchs.
Image details and attributions:
Marie Antoinette by Martin van Meytens. Schonbrunn Palace, Vienna.
Anne Boleyn by unknown artist. Hever Castle, Kent.
King Charles II of England by Philippe de Champaigne.
Charles Dickens by George Herbert Watkins.
Elizabeth I by William Scrots. Windsor Castle Collection.
Benjamin Franklin by Jospeh Siffrein Duplessis. National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.
King George III by Allan Ramsay.
Lady Emma Hamilton by George Romney. Huntington Library.
Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Tate Gallery.
Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner.
Mary Queen of Scots by Francois Clouet. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Lord Nelson by Lemuel Francis Abbott. National Maritime Museum (Greenwich Hospital Collection).
Samuel Pepys by Sir Godfrey Kneller. National Maritime Museum.
King Richard II of England by unknown artist. Westminster Abbey, London.
William Shakespeare thought to be by John Taylor (Chandos Portrait). National Portrait Gallery, London.
Alfred Lord Tennyson by Julia Margaret Cameron. The Art Institute of Chicago.
George Washington by Gilbert Stuart. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas.