Agustín de Iturbide
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Agustín Cosme Damián de Iturbide y Arámburu, commonly known as Agustín de Iturbide and later by his regnal name Agustín I, was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as the first Emperor of
Portrait by Primitivo Miranda, 1865
Iturbide
Embrace of Acatempan, between Iturbide (left) and Guerrero (right), by Ramón Sagredo
Oil portrait of Agustín de Iturbide.
Maximilian I of Mexico
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Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Restored Republic of Mexico on 19 June 1867.
Agustín de Iturbide
…the French Intervention the country would face Civil War amongst conservative, Catholic, Europe-adherent monarchists led by the ironically liberal Maximilian I of Mexico, and liberal, masonic, anti-clerical, reformist and United States-adherent liberals led by the American-backed Benito Juárez. Having prevailed, Juárez…
Formal portrait, c. 1864
Maximilian as a boy, 1847, by Joseph Karl Stieler
Maximilian in uniform, painted in 1853
Maria Amélia of Brazil by Friedrich Dürck, painted between 1837 and 1839