19th Century Notable Figures

Historical portraits of influential 19th-century personalities, including governors and notable scientists, in classic attire.

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Sir George Ferguson Bowen GCMG Governor from 5 Feb 1868 to 19 Mar 1873, circa 1860, maker unknown.

Charles Babbage. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871.

Professor Samuel F. B. Morse, LL.D. Artist: Unknown (American). Dimensions: 20.2 x 15.0 cm. (7 15/16 x 5 15/16 in.). Date: 1850s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Francois Mignet. unknown, graphic artist, Witkiewicz, Stanisław (1851-1915), draughtsman, cartoonist

Peabody, George .

Vintage photograph. Zachary Taylor 12th President of the United States (1784-1850)

Simon Cameron.

1860s RAILROAD MAGNATE CORNELIUS VANDERBILT ONE OF THE RICHEST AMERICANS IN HISTORY WAS ALSO ONE OF ITS GREATEST PHILANTHROPISTS

Horace Mann was an American educational reformer and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education. In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives.

James K. Polk.. Prints. 1777 - 1890. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

John P. Hale.

Eichendorff, Josef Freiherr.

William Alexander Alcott. Line engraving by J.C. Buttre.

William Ewart Gladstone, taken from a series of cigarette cards, 1935. Artist: Unknown

George Peabody (1795-1869), American Financier and Philanthropist, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York,

Portrait of Józef Muczkowski from book XI of Polish images". Fajans, Maksymilian (Warszawa ; zakład litograficzny ; 1853-1890), lithography atelier, Fajans, Maksymilian (1827-1890), publisher

Hon. Salmon P. Chase, 1861 - 1880, New York (State), History, Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

HENRY CLAY American statesman Date: 1777 - 1852

Liebig, Justus Freiherr von.

William Henry Harvey. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire, 1850.

Pierce, Franklin .

General Franklin Pierce, Democratic Candidate for the Presidency, Lithograph by Wagner & McGuigan from a Daguerreotype by MA. Root, 1852

G.F. Evans. Photograph by R.W. Thrupp after a painting.

THE LATE DR. BALY, PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY TO THE QUEEN

Columbus O'Donnell. Bendann Brothers (American, active 1850s - 1873)

James A. Bayard.

Wm. H. Harrison the 9th President of the United States was an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office.

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Photograph by Gustav Schauer.

Czermak, Josef.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS US President 1825-1829 Date: 1767 - 1848

This photogravure of Ralph Waldo Emerson is from an etching by E. Reich and done around 1908. Emerson (1803-1892) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. He was pastor of Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His writings include Essays ( 1st series, 1841; 2d series, 1844) -the best known being "The Over-Soul" and "Self-Reliance." Other writings include "Nature" and "Representative Men."

President William Harrison. Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office.

John Bell, Nominee for President of the Constitutional Union Party, USA, 1860 Presidential Election

Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke. Photograph by A.F. Baschta.

Horace Greeley.. 1821 - 1872. Prints. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. Slavery, Abolitionists, Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872, Journalists

Album of the Municipal Council of the City of Paris and Departmental Commission of the Seine. Cornuet, Yves ? Album of the Municipal Council of the City of Paris and Departmental Commission of the Seine. "Yves cornudet". Photograph of Pierre Petit (1831-1909). Salted paper fired with gold. 1864.

Portrait of Nathaniel Aiken painted by Joseph Chandler, c. 1840; N.E. Loquist (American, active Peoria, Illinois 1860s - 1900s); 1870 - 1880; Albumen silver print

Cooper Fenimore (Titice Title)

SIR ROUNDELL PALMER, Q.C., M.P., 1872 engraving

Portrait of William James Erasmus Wilson (1809-1884) an English surgeon and dermatologist. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of the British politician William Gladstone (1809-1898), photograph by Stereoscopic, London, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXV, No 21, May 22, 1898.

JOSE DE SALAMANCA (1806-1883). SALAMANCA MARQUES DE. SALAMANCA MAYOL JOSE. MARQUES DE SALAMANCA.

John C. Calhoun, U.S. Secretary of State, April 1, 1844 to March 10, 1845

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), 17th President of the United States (1865-1869). Date: circa 1865

Matthew Clarkson, 1801 - 1886, New York (State), History, Clarkson, Matthew, 1758-1825

Portrait of an unknown man, possibly the Lord of Wijhe, Bernardus Theodorus van Loo, 1826 - 1892 print Amsterdam paper. historical persons (+ (full) bust portrait)

M. Schneider, President of the French Corps Legislatif, 1870. Engraving from a photograph by M. Franck. 'M. Eugène Schneider is the proprietor and manager of the very extensive iron and steel foundries and machine factories at Creuzot, in Burgundy, which form one of the greatest establishments in Europe of that kind...The Messrs. Schneider were rewarded with gold medals at the exhibitions of 1839, 1844, and 1849...On the death of his brother, caused by an accident, in 1845, M. Eugene Schneider succeeded him both in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Conseil General for the Department of t

Edward Dodd.

THE REV. WILLIAM ADAMS, D.D., LL.D, USA, America, 19th century engraving

Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquis of Lansdowne. 1780-1863. 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

George Dunn. Lithograph by J. A. Vinter after D. Coles.

William Brande (1788-1866), English chemist born in London. He succeeded Humphry Davy as professor of chemistry at the Royal Institution, London, in 1813. From James Sheridan Muspratt 'Chemistry' (London, c1860). Engraving.

Daniel Webster , Government officials, Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Louis Prang & Company Collection

THE LATE REV. J.H. HINTON, OF BRISTOL, 1874

Edmonds, John Worth .

'J.D. Harding, W.S.' Creator: Unknown.

Großmann, Christian Gotlob leverage law.

Jefferson Davis (Jefferson Finis Davis) (1808-1889). American politician. He was the only president of the Confederate States (1861-1865). U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1847-1851, 1857-1861) and the House of Representatives (1845-1846), before the American Civil War. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia biográfica de los Presidentes de los Estados Unidos" (Biographical story of the Presidents of the United States). Published in Barcelona by Montaner y Simón, 1885.

James Knox Polk, 1789 - 1880, Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849, Engravings

This 1899 illustration shows: Ralph Waldo Emerson - photo from life. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet. He led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. Among his best known essays are 'Nature' and 'Self-Reliance.' He was a friend of Henry David Thoreau. His home was in Concord, Massachusetts. For two years he lived in a cabin in Concord by what is known today as Walden Pond.

James Buchanan, 1789 - 1880, 1856, Lithographs

Portrait of Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), President of the United States of America, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 1174, Volume XLVI, August 26, 1865.

Millard Fillmore American History

John (1801-1873). King of Saxony (1854-1873). Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume II. Published in Barcelona, 1871.

J. Dent. Chairman of the NorthEastern Railway Company, one of the companies responsible for the construction of the Forth railway bridge

Giacomo Meyerbeer (5th September 1791 - 2nd May 1864) was a German-Jewish born opera composer.

Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada y Corral (1823-1889). Jurist and Liberal president of Mexico. Engraving by Paris. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1872.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States Congress and served as the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore, Head

Henry Clay. oil on canvas. Date: 1842. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

William Barksdale.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington Lord of Rothley .

John Greenleaf Whittier - Quaker poet and Abolitionist.

Daniel Webster, 1782-1852; Federalist Congressman from New Hampshire, 1813-1817; Whig Congressman from Massachusetts, 1823-1827; Whig Senator from Massachusetts, 1827-1841, 1845-1850; Secretary of State, 1841-1843, 1850-1852.

(Antoine) Laurent de Jussieu (1878-1836) French botanist, nephew of Bernard de Jussieu. Engraving, Paris, 187.

Stephen Douglas, circa 1858

Jean Cruveilhier. Lithograph by L. P. Lasnier, 1865, after A.-R. Trinquart.

Mr Fontaine, architect, who died in Paris October 10, 1853

James K. Polk. ink on paper. Date: c. 1899-1920. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. JAMES KNOX POLK.

Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie. Engraving by D. J. Pound after Maull & Polyblank.

Director-General Pehr Brändström.

Justus von Liebig (1803-73), German Chemist, Considered the Founder of Organic Chemistry, Portrait

Sir John Pender (10 September 1816 7 July 1896), British submarine communications cable pioneer, was born in the Vale of Leven, Scotland, and after attending school in Glasgow became a successful merchant in textile fabrics in that city and in Manchester

HenryClay. Artist: Albert Newsam, American, 1809-1864 After: John Neagle, American, 1796-1865

1860s 1859 TO 1861 PORTRAIT SAM HOUSTON GOVERNOR OF TEXAS USA

Thomas Hart Benton 1782 to 1858. American politician. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

Hon. George Mifflin Dallas.. Hunt, Charles Havens. Prints. 1881. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864

Miles Taylor.

Charles Fourier. His experimental creation of the 'Phalanstere' (a new social community having all things in common) was unsuccessful and futile.

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE British Liberal MP and Prime Minister Date: 1809 - 1898

H. Clay, senator from Kentucky ca 1837.

Henry Clay, U.S. Secretary of State, March 7, 1825 to March 3, 1829

Portrait of Józef Majer, from: Album of distinguished Polish medical doctors. Bonus piece to the Nowiny Lekarskie` Doctors' News published in Poznań (Image 31). Wydział Lekarski TPN (Poznań), publisher

U.S. President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), half-length Portrait, Morse's Gallery on the Cumberland, 1864

James Buchanan, U.S. Secretary of State, March 10, 1845 to March 7, 1849

Henry Clay Sr. (April 12) (1777) (June 29) (1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original Henry Clay Sr. Senate and House of Representatives, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

USA: James Knox Polk (1795 - 1849) was the 11th President of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. Oil on canvas, George Peter Alexander Healy (1818-1894), 1858

'Alfred Ollivant (1798-1882) c1878, English churchman who was Bishop of Llandaff 1842-188.'

Theodore Parker (1810-1860) ca. 1850 was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. Illustration originally published in Harpers Monthly January 1880

John Cabell Breckinridge, USA Senator from Kentucky, Vice President, Presidential Candidate in 1860

John Tyler, 10th President of the United States | Library of Congress

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