Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
French painter for realism and scenes of lower middle class and manual labor. what a babe.
David Garrick, 1717 - 1779, English actor and playwright - the Richard Burton or Sir Laurence Olivier of his day
Hottie: The Veteran: Portrait of George Reynolds, c. 1886, Civil War veteran.
Hottie: Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1809) - here shown in his younger years.
Hot painter: Augustus Vincent Tack (1870 - 1949)
Painter Hottie: self-portrait by Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863). Reminds me a bit of actor Guy Pearce in the period piece, Count of Monte Cristo, which would have been from around the same time.
Astronomical Hottie: Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
Political Hottie: William Richardson Davie (1756-1820) was a prominent North Carolina lawyer, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, governor, and founder of the University of North Carolina.
Literary HOT: Possibly an authentic portrait of William Shakespeare. Completely hot.
Hot: Portrait of a young man, by painter Giovanni Boldini (1842 - 1931)
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Oh, foo. Forgot to give more detail. This looker is poet Heinrich Heine.
[submission from jiulli]
He reminds me of actor James McAvoy.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmx6pm2RXH1qeu6ilo1_1280.jpg)
Oh, foo. Forgot to give more detail. This looker is poet Heinrich Heine.
[submission from jiulli]
He reminds me of actor James McAvoy.
A young Pyotr Ilvich Tchaikovsky- need I say more?
Yes, he was a good looking man.
Canadian Hottie: Air Marshal William Avery “Billy” Bishop (1894 – 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire.
Historical Cutie: George Back: (1796 –b 1878) was a British naval officer, explorer of the Canadian Arctic, naturalist and artist.
Talented Hottie: John McCrae (1872 - 1918), Canadian poet, physician, author, poet and soldier during World War I. Best known for writing the poem - In Flanders Fields
