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19th Century Male Portraits

Historic portraits of distinguished men from the 19th century, featuring formal attire, classic styles, and scholarly expressions.

Rutherford Hayes (1822-1893) 19th President of the United States Engraving

PI I MARGALL, Francisco (1824-1901). Theorist and federal republican politician, president of the First Spanish Republic. Portrait by Jos_ Sànchez Pescador. SANCHEZ PESCADOR, Jos_ (19th century). Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Madrid Atheneum.

Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Johnson, woodcut, 1883, active 1883-1901, Private Collection

Eugen Karl Dühring, 12. Januar 1833, 21. September 1921, Philosoph, Nationalökonom und Mitbegründer des Rassenantisemitismus im Deutschen Kaiserreich,...

Photographic portrait of Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) an English politician and social reformer. Dated 19th century

Illustration Portrait Walt Whitman

Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. Scottish-born English historian and essayist. From the book ""The French Revolution"" by Thomas Carlyle. Published London, 1894.

Portrait of Carl Wiene (1852-1913). Photography (World postcard). Dresden, around 1905

Jefferson Davis (1808-89), President of the Confederate States during American Civil War, Head and Shoulders Portrait during portrait session at Davis' home Beauvoir, near Biloxi, Mississippi, USA, Edward L. Wilson, 1885

DANIEL FRANCOIS ESPRIT AUBER French composer Date: 1782 - 1871

This man was President of the U.S. for less than one year. James A. Garifield was assassinated the year he was *****. May 25, 1951. (Photo by Cowles Syndicate)

G. Stanley Hall. Photogravure by Synnberg Photo-gravure Co., 1898.

Kier (James) Hardie, British Labour leader. Artist: Unknown

Oliver Otis Howard, Union general, 1862-1867.Artist: J Rogers

Unknown, Portrait of Thomas Carlyle, c. 1870, gelatin or collodion printing-out print.

Víctor Hugo (1802-1885). French writer, exponent of the Romantic movement in France. Engraving by Baude. Artistic illustration, 1885. Author: CHARLES BAUDE.

COSTA, JOAQUIN JURISTA Y POLITICO ESPAÑOL. MONZON 1846-1911 OLEO DE J.J GARATE ATENEO DE MADRID. Author: JUAN JOSE GARATE (1869-1939).

Charles Gounod (1818-1893). French composer. Portrait. Engraving. Colored.

THOMAS, Ambroise (Metz,1811-París,1896). Compositor francés. Fue director del Conservatorio de París desde 1871 hasta su muerte. Dibujo a color.

Robert Chambers, 1802-1871. Scottish author, publisher and natural philosopher .Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1860

Portrait of James Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1831-1881). Date/Period: 1881. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 61.6 cm (24.2 in); Width: 51.8 cm (20.3 in). Author: OLE PETER HANSEN BALLING.

General Ulysses S Grant, circa 1879

Ernest Deligny (1820-1898). Count of Alosno. French engineer. Portrait. Engraving by V. Siablo. "La Academia", 1878. Colored.

Portrait of Joseph Moore (1817-1892), 1870 By William Thomas Roden, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male, Bearded

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (Hatfield 1830 - 1903) III Marquis of Salisbury, prominent British politician, better known as Lord Salisbury. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Paul Ehrligh - German Scientist. June 15, 1954.

Print of President Rutherford B. Hayes

12/31/1898. Portrait of the writer Henrik Ibsen.

Ernst Werner Siemens, from 1888 von Siemens, December 13, 1816 - 1892, a German inventor, electrical engineer and industrialist / Ernst Werner Siemens, ab 1888 von Siemens, 13. Dezember 1816 - 1892, ein deutscher Erfinder, Elektroingenieur und Industrieller, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) an Italian opera composer. Dated 19th Century

Lord John Russell, British Whig and Liberal statesman, 1875. Artist: Unknown

Sir Titus Salt, British manufacturer and benefactor, c1880. Artist: Unknown

GUSTAV CASSEL (1866-1945) ECONOMISTA SUECO PROFESOR DE ECONOMIA EN LA UNIVERSIDAD DE ESTOCOLMO.

USA: Walter 'Walt' Whitman, American poet, essayist and journalist (1819-1892) 'aged about fifty', therefore c. 1869

Friedrich Engels (1820-1895). German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. Colored portrait.

Henry Magee. Photograph by Gilbert and Bacon.

Frederic Mistral (1830-1914). French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1904.

GENER POMPEU . GENER POMPEYO. ESCRITOR ESPAÑOL. BARCELONA 1848-1920.

Transparency - Sir William C. Macdonald, about 1890

Hugo Maximilian Wesendonck, 1817 - 1900, a German businessman and politician, wood engraving, about 1880

Edward R. Hayden , Mayors. Lawrence

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician. Date: 1833 - 1897

Keir Hardie, portrait bust

Portrait of the Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Michetti, Francesco Paolo (1851-1929)

Karl Marx (1818-1883). German Philosopher, political economist and communist. Portrait. Engraving by Capuz. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1872.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW American poet, best known for 'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) Date: 1807 - 1882

Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93), 19th President of the United States, 1877-81, Chromolithograph, G.F. Gilman, 1877

Ulysses S. Grant, in a photographic portrait taken around 1880 (BSLOC_2018_10_74)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Half-Length Seated Portrait, C. M. Battey, 1895

Henry Wolf, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1898, wood engraving on china paper.

Edw. Lauterbach

Giosue Carducci.

Portrait of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. 1880. Portraits, Photographs. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, African American abolitionists, African American authors, African American orators

William Holman Hunt, British painter, c1890.Artist: Cassell, Petter & Galpin

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President James A Garfield - Ole Peter Hansen Balling, circa 1881

Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896). French composer. Portrait. Engraving.

Edward Clodd. Photograph.

Karl Heinrich Marx 5 May 1818 14 March 1883) Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marxs work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought

Koos de la Rey, Afrikaner soldier and statesman, c1900. Artist: Anon

ARSENE ARMAND HOUSSAYE French administrator of the Comedie francaise, editor and museum reorganiser, photographed in 1861. Date: 1815-1896

Michel de LHospital, L'Hôpital, Michael Hospitalius, born c. 1505, died 13 March 1573, a French statesman, jurist and humanist writer, Historical, dig...

Karl von Holtei, historic illustration from History of German Literature from 1885

. English: Photogravure from a photograph of George Everest. before 1866 704 George Everest - Maull & Polyblank

LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). British writer and historian. Colored engraving.

William III (1817-1890). King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1849-1890). Portrait. Engraving, 1890.

Giuseppe Verdi Italian Composer (1813-1901)

Chester Alan Arthur (5 October 1829-18 November 1886) was Vice-President from 4 March to 20 September 1881 and subsequently the 21st President of the United States until 4 March 1885, Painting by Ole Peter Hansen Balling, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original

Anefo photo collection. Dostojeuskij, head. October 22, 1975

Kingsley, Charles (1819-1875). British writer and historian. Colored engraving.

GOMEZ- MORENO GONZALEZ, MANUEL. PINTOR E HISTORIADOR DE ARTE ESPAÑOL.. GRANADA 1834-1918.

Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, sociologist, economic historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. 1876

Philipp Scheidemann (26 July 1865 Äì 29 November 1939) German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the first Chancellor of the Weimar Republic.

France: Edouard Manet (1832-1883), French painter and printmaker, portrait by Ferdinand Mulnier, c. 1877

Thomas Carlyle 1795 to 1881 Scottish historian and essayist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), Scottish mathematician and physicist. Kelvin with his compass. From photogrpah taken in 1902

RETRATO DE GIUSEPPE FORTUNIOFRANCESCO VERDI - 1886. Author: GIOVANNI BOLDINI (1842-1931). GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901).

Victor Hugo (1802-1885). French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Engraving by F. Teyetiveyer. The Iberian Illustrations, 1885.

Karl Marx Philosopher & Economist c. 1880

Juan de Mariana, also known as Father Mariana (1536-1624). Spanish Jesuit theologian and historian. Portrait. Engraving. Later colouration. Historia General de España by Father Mariana. Madrid, 1852.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 - 1882, an American poet

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), American diplomat, abolitionist and writer, 1875. Artist: Unknown

Michele de L'Hospital, also spelled L'Hopital 1507-1573. French statesman, lawyer and humanist. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American diplomat, abolitionist and writer. Son of a slave, a mulatto, he fled from slavery at 21. Wood engraving 1875

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). Scottish philosopher and historian. Engraving, 19th cent. Our Century,1883.

Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite, the President of Haiti, 17 October 1889, 24 March 1896, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Josiah Henson, 1789 - 1883. Author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive sl

Victor Hugo (1802-1885). French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Engraving by F. Teyetiveyer. The Iberian Illustrations, 1885. Later colouration.

Color portrait of Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães (Rio de Janeiro 1851 - Porto 1944), was the third and eighth elected president of the Portuguese R

TWAIN , MARK. SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS. ESCRITOR NORTEAMERICANO . 1835 - 1910 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

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