UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. THE GALLERY OF PORTRAITS: WITH MEMOIRS. VOLUME II. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT, 22, LUDGATE-STREET, AND 13, PALL-MALL EAST. 1833. [PRICE ONE GUINEA, BOUND IN CLOTH.] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES, Duke-Street, Lambeth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PORTRAITS, AND BIOGRAPHIES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. Page 1. Lord Somers 1 2. Smeaton 13 3. Buffon 19 4. Sir Thomas More 25 5. La Place 34 6. Handel 40 7. Pascal 49 8. Erasmus 56 9. Titian 63 10. Luther 73 11. Rodney 82 12. Lagrange 88 13. Voltaire 93 14. Rubens 99 15. Richelieu 107 16. Wollaston 121 17. Boccaccio 126 18. Claude 136 19. Nelson 141 20. Cuvier 150 21. Ray 160 22. Cook 165 23. Turgot 175 24. Peter the Great 183 [Illustration: _Engraved by T. A. Dean._ LORD CHANCELLOR SOMERS. _From a Picture by Sir G. Kneller, in the possession of the Royal Society._ Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. _London, Published by Charles Knight, Pall Mall East._ ] GALLERY OF PORTRAITS. [Illustration] SOMERS.