_UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE._ THE GALLERY OF PORTRAITS: WITH MEMOIRS. VOLUME VII. LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT, 22, LUDGATE-STREET. 1837. [PRICE ONE GUINEA, BOUND IN CLOTH.] LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Duke-Street, Lambeth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME. Page. 1. Gustavus Adolphus 1 2. Marc Antonio Raimondi 10 3. Coke 15 4. Gibbon 25 5. Scaliger 32 6. Penn 39 7. De Thou 49 8. Chatham 55 9. Mozart 66 10. Loyola 73 11. Brindley 81 12. Schiller 87 13. Bentham 97 14. Catherine II. 103 15. Defoe 112 16. Hume 121 17. De Witt 129 18. Hampden 137 19. Dr. Johnson 145 20. Jefferson 153 21. Wilberforce 162 22. Dr. Black 169 23. Bacon 177 24. Sir Walter Scott 185 [Illustration: _Engraved by J. Posselwhite._ GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS. _From a Print by Paul Pontius, after a Picture by Van Dyck._ Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. _London, Published by Charles Knight & C^o. Ludgate Street._ ] [Illustration] GUST. ADOLPHUS.