François-René de Chateaubriand

male, deceased (1848)
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768 - July 4, 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the fo...
Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

male
Heinrich von Ofterdingen is a famous, quasi-fictional Minnesinger who participated in the Sängerkrieg (Minstrels' contest) on the Wartburg. He is c...
Joseph Warton

Joseph Warton

male, deceased (1800)
Joseph Warton (April, 1722 - February 23, 1800) was an English academic and literary critic. He was born in Dunsfold, Surrey, England, but his...

Théodore Chassériau

male, deceased (1856)
Théodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Or...
Franz Schreker

Franz Schreker

male, deceased (1934)
Franz Schreker (March 23, 1878 - March 21, 1934) was an Austrian composer and conductor. His oeuvre, consisting mainly of operas, is characterized...
Charles Nodier

Charles Nodier

male, deceased (1844)
Charles Nodier, was a French author who introduced a younger generation of Romanticists to the "conte fantastique", gothic literature, vampire...
Thomas Percy

Thomas Percy

male, deceased (1811)
Thomas Percy (April 13, 1729 - September 30, 1811), Bishop of Dromore, and is remembered as editor of "Tatler", "Guardian", and "Spectator". Before...
Richard Parkes Bonington

Richard Parkes Bonington

male, deceased (1828)
Richard Parkes Bonington (October 25, 1802 - September 23, 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter. One of the most influential British...
Jacob Grimm

Jacob Grimm

male, deceased (1863)
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in...
Francesco Hayez

Francesco Hayez

male, deceased (1882)
Francesco Hayez (February 10, 1791, Venice - December 21, 1882, Milan) was the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned...