19th Century American Figures

Engravings of influential 19th-century men. Portraits highlight distinctive clothing styles of the period, focusing on their historical significance.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. German opera composer of Jewish descent. Despised by Richard Wagner. Date: 1791-1864

Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). American officer and politician. 12th President of the United States (1849-1850. Portrait. Engraving.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. German opera composer of Jewish descent. Despised by Richard Wagner. Date: 1791-1864

Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States. He had nickname "Old Rough and Ready."

SIR CHARLES EDWARD TREVELYAN, K.C.B., THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF MADRAS, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY BEARD

Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) was the 12th President of the United States. He won the nickname of 'Old Rough and Ready' in army campaigns against native Americans. He commanded troops in the Mexican War, winning victories at Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Buena Vista. He was elected president on Whig party ticket and took office in 1849. He died in 1850 and Millard Fillmore became president.

Pauer, Ernst .

Charles King. 1861 - 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History

MR. J. NAPIER, M.P. FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. 1849

George Boole. Wood engraving, 1865.

Great, George.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR - British poet, dramatist and prose writer Date: 1785 - 1864

Portrait of Mormon Patriarch Jedediah Morgan Grant (1816-1856) was a leader and an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was member of the First Council of the Seventy from 1845 to 1854 and served in the First Presidency under church president Brigham Young from 1854 to 1856. United States of America, drawing by Francois Fortune Ferogio (1805-1888) Journey to the City of Saints, 1860. Capital of the country of the Mormons by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Portrait van Hidde Justusz. Halbertsma, Johann Peter Berghaus, after Anonymous, 1854 print Under the portrait the signature of the portrayed person and a caption in Latin. Leiden paper. historical persons

Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.

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Portrait of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States of America, engraving from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, vol 37, no 943, March 23, 1861.

Portrait of James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), English painter, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1088, Volume XLIII, January 2, 1864.

John Taylor (1808 - 1887) was an English-born religious leader who served as the third president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is the first and only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside the United States of America, drawing by Francois Fortune Ferogio (1805-1888) Journey to the City of Saints, 1860. Capital of the country of the Mormons by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Simeon Draper, 1806 - 1866. American businessman and politician. After a photography by Charles D. Fredricks.

Juan Alvarez de Mendizabal (1790-1853). Spanish Liberal politician and businessman. Drawing by Santiago Llanta. Portrait. Lithography. Cronica General de Espa-a, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Michael Faraday. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1851.

Portrait of Mormon Patriarch Jedediah Morgan Grant (1816-1856) was a leader and an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was member of the First Council of the Seventy from 1845 to 1854 and served in the First Presidency under church president Brigham Young from 1854 to 1856. United States of America, drawing by Francois Fortune Ferogio (1805-1888) Journey to the City of Saints, 1860. Capital of the country of the Mormons by Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) Le Tour du Monde 1862

Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington, 1769 - 1852. English Field Marshall. From the daguerrotype by Claudet.

Krasinski, Zygmunt Graf .

Great, George.

THE LATE MR. GEORGE COMBE, 1858

Sir James Paget. Stipple engraving by C. Holl after G. Richmond, 1867.

James Dana. Lithograph by R. Hoffman, 1857, after M. B. Brady.

Edward Everett (1794-1865) was an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator. He belonged to the Whig party and was from Massachusetts. He also served as governor of Massachusetts, a US representative, a US senator, US Secretary of State. He was a professor at Harvard and served as Harvard's president. He was the orator at the dedication ceremony at Gettysburg and his two-hour speech preceded Lincoln's very brief speech.

Washington Irving. ink on paper. Date: c. 1899-1920. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Charles Dallery

Eugène Napoléon Vigla. Lithograph by Bornemann after Reutlinger.

Robert Brown. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1850.

'Charles Reed (1819-1881) English typefounder, Liberal politician and philanthropist, Member of Parliament for Hackney 1868-1874, Chairman of the London School Board. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

William Henry Harrison. ink on paper. Date: c. 1899-1920. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

John Stevens Henslow (17906-1861) English botanist, geologist and clergyman. Professor of Botany at Cambridge from 1827. Charles Darwin his friend and favourite pupil. Wood engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 22 June 1861.

Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Enghien (1772-1804). Portrait. Engraving, 19th century.

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Charles John Vaughan, 1816 - 1897, an English scholar and clergyman, Dean of Llandaff

DR. SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY 14 August 1810 19 APRIL 1876 English organist and composer ENGRAVING 1876

HAMILTON HUME, F.R.G.S., UK engraving 1873

Hon. William Haile, Governor of New Hampshire, 1857. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

WILLIAM HARRISON (1773-1841) - IX PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS.

Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce , Washburne, E. B. Elihu Benjamin, 1816-1887

William Ewart Gladstone 1809 to 1898 Four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905) was a bishop of the Catholic Church, benefactor and politician of Croatia. Bishop of Dakovo, one of the promoters of the Yugoslav national idea. He is considered the founder of the University of Zagreb and the Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences, Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Voyage to the Southern Slavs by Georges Perrot, Le Tour du Monde 1870

Portrait of the composer, William Sterndale Bennett. Mayall, John Jabez Edwin (1813-1901), photographer, Pound, Daniel John (fl. ca 1842-1870), graphic artist, London Joint Stock Newspaper Co. (Londyn ; wydawnictwo ; fl. ca 1858-186.), publishing house

Hermann von Beckerath, 13 December 1801, 12 May 1870 Prussian banker and politician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

James Monroe.. Vanderlyn, John (1775-1852). Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Michael Faraday. Lithograph.

SIR JOHN HAWKSHAW engineer : one of his projects was a tunnel beneath the English Channel... Date: 1811 - 1891

LUKE WISEMAN churchman, president of the Wesleyan Conference Date: CIRCA 1872

Burnet, John .

SIR EDWARD BLOUNT Railway director in France. Date: 1809 - 1895

George James Guthrie. Wood engraving by F.S., 1856, after J. Mayall.

Homas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, 25 October 1800, 28 December 1859, was a British historian, poet and politician, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

David Justus Ludwig Hansemann, 12 July 1790, 4 August 1864, was a Prussian politician and banker who served as Prussian Minister of Finance in 1848, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Martin Eduard von Simson, 10. November (1810), 2. Mai 1899, war ein deutscher Richter, Hochschullehrer und Parlamentarier im Königreich Preußen, digit...

Sir JOHN BENNET LAWES English agriculturist Date: 1814 - 1900

George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle KG, PC (1802-1864), styled Viscount Morpeth from 1825 to 1848, was a British politician, statesman and orator. Engraving from an english magazine printed in 1864

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831). German idealist philosopher. Portrait of Hegel. Engraving.

Reichenbach, Karl Freiherr.

Chopin, Frederic.

Rust, Adolf.

Historical steel engraving from the 19th Century, portrait of the British statesman and Prime Minister, Lord Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 19th Century

THE LATE SIR HUGH LYON PLAYFAIR, K.C.B., PROVOST OF ST. ANDREWS

Sir William Scovell Savory. Wood engraving by R. Taylor.

Agustín de Argüelles Álvarez (1776-1844), abogado, político y diplomático español, legislador en las cortes de Cádiz. Grabado de 1880.

Casimir Pierre Perier (1777-1832). French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman. Portrait. Engraving.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW American writer, best known for his 'Hiawatha' and for the line 'ships that pass in the night'... as a young man. Date: 1807 - 1882

Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, 1779 - 1854. English lawyer, judge, politician and Lord Chief Justice ,1832 -1850. From Cassell's Illustrated History of England.

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE

Portrait of John Pender (1816-1896) a Scottish submarine communications cable pioneer. Dated 19th century

Michael Faraday. Engraving by C. Cook after Beard.

Thackeray, William Makepeace .

William Ellery Channing, 1780 - 1842. American Unitarian preacher and theologian. After a 19th century print.

David Livingstone. Wood engraving, 1870, after J. Mayall.

Ollivier, Emile (Marseille 1825-Saint-Gervais-Lesbains, 1913). French politician.

Portrait of Franz II Josef Charles, Roman German Emperor, print maker: Hermann Hirsch Pinhas, (mentioned on object), 1841 - 1844, paper, steel engraving, h 217 mm - w 137 mm

The Hon. William Shee, one of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, 1864. Engraving of a photograph by John and Charles Watkins. 'William Shee, Queen's Serjeant...is the first Roman Catholic Judge since the Revolution of 1688...He has already gone circuit as Judge of Assize, and has won golden opinions from the Bar and the public for his dignified bearing, his courtesy, and his eminently judicial temper and acquirements. A better appointment to the Bench could not have been made; for this eloquent and learned lawyer is well known to possess such high order of intellect, keen sense of honou

'The Duke of Grafton', 1879. Creator: Vincent Brooks Day & Son.

also Johann Hoffer or Hans Hoffer (12, 1823 in Langenlois, Austrian Empire as Johann Nepomuk Hofer, died April 21, 1891 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary), was an Austrian gymnast and university professor, historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, 1844 (1936). Artist: Unknown.

William Wentworth (William Charles Wentworth I) (1790-1872), was an Australian explorer, barrister, newspaper publisher, politician and landowner.

General John Nicholson 1821-1857. British soldier and administrartor From an engraving by J W Knight after a daguerreotype by Kilburn

'The Rev. John Russell', 1879. Creator: Vincent Brooks Day & Son.

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of William Page Wood, Baron Hatherley, 1801 - 1881, a British statesman and legal scholar

Historical drawing, portrait of Robert Franz or Robert Franz Julius Knauth, 1815-1892, German composer and conductor

Elder Johann Strauss, Classical Composers

Charles Sumner (1811 1874) was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War.

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, 17 November 1776 - 23 September 1861, was a German historian, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRE, Jules (1805-1895). French politician, philosopher and orientalist.

Prescott, William Hickling .

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1815 - 1881, a British church historian, theologian and writer, Dean of Westminster Abbey

Portrait of Claude Dubufe (1789-1864), French painter, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1107, Volume XLIII, May 14, 1864.

James K. Polk, Gallery of National Portraits, Drawn by J.A. McDougal, Lithograph, Endicott's Lith. N.Y., 1844

Francisco Martinez de la Rosa (1787-1862). Spanish statesman and dramatist and the 1st prime minister of Spain to receive the tittle of President of the Council of Ministers. Portrait. "Historia de la Revolución Española (desde la Guerra de la Independencia a la Restauración en Sagunto), por Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1891.

Historical drawing, US-American history, 19th century, portrait of John Ericsson, 1803 - 1889, a Swedish-American inventor and engineer, designer of armored warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War

WALTER FRANCIS SCOTT, fifth duke of BUCCLEUCH and seventh of QUEENSBERRY Statesman Date: 1806 - 1884

MR. DUNCAN MCLAREN

Portrait of Pyotr Valuev by Pyotr Fyodorovich Borel, Lithograph, 1865, Neoclassicism, 1829-1898, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library,

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