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A c. 1727 oil-on-canvas portrait of the composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). Attributed to Balthasar Denner. (National Portrait Gallery, London)

Statue of John Marshall and George Wythe outside the William and Mary School of Law in Virginia. Photo by Rpogge, November 2007.

A 1720s oil-on-canvas portrait by John Smibert of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753). (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A 19th-century portrait by Alfred C. Hart of the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685-1753).

A photograph of the United States Army general George Patton (1885-1945). Patton was a key commander in the Second World War (1939-45).

Portrait of George Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Oil on canvas by Rembrandt Peale, c. 1850. De Young Museum, San Francisco.

Portrait of George Washington (1732-1799), oil on canvas by Gilbert Stuart, 1797. White House, East Room, Washington, D.C.

George Grenville (1712-1770), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1763 to 1765. Oil on canvas portrait by William Hoare, 1764. Christ Church, Oxford.

Anthropologist and historian George Bird Grinnell (l. 1849-1938), photograph published in the Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford, 1905.

An 1838 portrait by Auguste Charpentier of the novelist George Sand (the pen name of Aurore Dudevant (1804-76). (Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris)