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19th Century Portraits of Notable Figures

A series of 19th-century portraits depicting distinguished men, showcasing classic clothing styles and capturing the essence of their era.

Portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Anonymous

Karl Friedrich Gerok, from 1868 von Gerok, Friedrich Karl von Gerok, 30 January 1815, 14 January 1890, was a German theologian and lyricist, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

William Augustus Guy. Photograph by Ernest Edwards, 1868.

Portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm Beeg

Portrait of Armand Jules Stanislas Dufaure (1798-1881), (lawyer, politician) Portrait of Armand Jules Stanislas Dufaure (1798-1881), (lawyer, politician). Business card (front). Photograph of Charles Reutlinger (1816-1880). Draw on albuminum.Vante 1881.

Sir William Overend Priestley. Photograph by C. Silvy.

Gioacchino Rossini. Date/Period: 1855 - 1857. Print. Salted paper. Height: 241 mm (9.48 in); Width: 173 mm (6.81 in). Author: Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon).

Henry Bessemer, English engineer and inventor, 1881. Artist: Lock & Whitfield

David Livingstone. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company.

Joshua H. Jewett.

Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887. American minister of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn New York. Brother of Harriet Beecher (Stowe). Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Whipple & Black, Boston.. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Charles Bonnegrace. Berthaud (France, active 19th Century). France, 1876-1884. Photographs. Woodburytype

THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, 1874

The Revd Mr Thomas Henshaw Jones Made 1843-1846 Scotland. For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.. Salted paper print . David Octavius Hill

Thomas Sidney Cooper. Dimensions: Approx. 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.). Photography Studio: John and Charles Watkins (British, active 1867-71). Date: 1860s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

H.B. Johnston, R.S.A. Artist: David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802-1870 Edinburgh, Scotland); Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821-1848 St. Andrews, Scotland). Photography Studio: Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843-1848). Date: 1843-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Robert Adamson. David Octavius Hill.

Swinton. Artist: David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802-1870 Edinburgh, Scotland); Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821-1848 St. Andrews, Scotland). Photography Studio: Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843-1848). Date: 1843-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Robert Adamson. David Octavius Hill.

Portrait of Oppenheim, brother -in -law of the photographer, Eduard Isaac Asser, c. 1854 - c. 1855 photograph Amsterdam paper. photographic support. cardboard salted paper print historical persons

Sir William Bowman. Photograph by Barraud & Jerrard, 1873.

Sir William Vernon Harcourt - British statesman, in 1890. Date: 1827 - 1904

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English Philosopher, Sociologist, Biologist and Prominent Classical Liberal Political Theorist of the Victorian Era, Portrait, 1870's

South Africa: Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa. 1896.

Sir John Struthers. Photograph.

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse. Photograph by Maull & Co.

Johns Hopkins. Bendann Brothers (American, active 1850s - 1873)

Rev. S.A. Crane

Manuel Verriges. Photograph by Lorenzo Becerril.

Professor Benjamin Jowett; Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879); Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England; 1864; Albumen silver print

Archibald Alsion (1792-1867) English lawyer and historian. Engraving from 'The World's Great Men' (London, c1870).

Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) English churchman born at Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Bishop of Worcester 1827-1873. Engraving from 'The Illustrated News of the World' (London, c1860).

Benjamin Disraeli from leaves for the domestic circle, Unknown

Dr. Ticord. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Louis Grois -, singer, actor, Fritz Luckhardt -, photographer

'Richard Malins (1805-1882) c1880, English lawyer and Conservative politician. Member of Parliament for Wallingford 1852-1865.'

Paul Charles Morphy, 1837-1884. American chess player. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Thompson of Paris. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Rev. Dr. Keith. Artist: David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802-1870 Edinburgh, Scotland); Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821-1848 St. Andrews, Scotland). Photography Studio: Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843-1848). Date: 1843-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Robert Adamson. David Octavius Hill.

Portrait of Louis Bouwmeester OUR. .

Sir Thomas Francis Wade, GCMG, KCB (25 August 1818 - 31 July 1895), was a British diplomat and Sinologist who produced a syllabary in 1859 that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles romanization for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892. Thomas' Chinese name was Wei Tuoma (妥瑪). Born in London, he was the son of Major Wade of the Black Watch and Anne Smythe (daughter of William Smythe) of Barbavilla, County Westmeath, Ireland. He was educated at the Cape, in Mauritius, at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1838, his father purchased for him a commission in the 81st Foot. Exchanging (1839) into the 42nd Highlanders, he served with his regiment in the Ionian Islands, devoting his leisure to the congenial study of Italian and modern Greek. On receiving his commission as lieutenant in 1841 he exchanged into the 98th Foot, then under orders for Qing China, and landed in Hong Kong in June 1842. The scene of the First Opium War had at that time been trans

Freeman H. Morse.

Dr. Welsh (Retiring Moderator of Gel' Assembly 1843). Artist: David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802-1870 Edinburgh, Scotland); Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821-1848 St. Andrews, Scotland). Photography Studio: Hill and Adamson (British, active 1843-1848). Date: 1843-47. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Robert Adamson. David Octavius Hill.

Johannes Brahms, Classical Composers

John Bright (1811-89), British Politician and Orator, Engraving from an Original Painting by Alonzo Chappel, 1870

Justice Roger B. Taney, U.S. Supreme Court 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

John Percy. Photograph.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English chemist and physicist, Engraving

Sir Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak. Photograph by Bassano.

David Octavius Hill. Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848)

Archbishop of Canterbury. John Jabez Edwin Mayall (English, 1813 - 1901)

John Tyndall (1820 - 1893) Irish physicist Date: 1889

Portrait of the French Politician de Marcère; The Marcère.

James Russell Woodford, Bishop of Ely, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister, 1881. Artist: Unknown

SIR JAMES CLARK Medical Date: 1788 - 1870

JOHN JACKSON Bishop of Lincoln, later of London Date: 1811 - 1885

Münch-Bellinghausen, Eligius Freiherr von.

'Francis Schnadhorst (1840-1900) a draper, Liberal politician and political organiser. A was a member of Birmingham City Council and Secretary of the National iberal Federation.'

James Ormiston McWilliam. Photograph.

Portrait of Victor Cousin; Gustave Le Gray, French, 1820 - 1884; 1854 - 1859; Albumen silver print; Image (oval): 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.)

FRANCOIS-PIERRE-GUILLAUME GUIZOT French statesman and historian Date: 1787 - 1874

Portrait of Edouard Douryn de Lhuys (1805-1881), (Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs) Portrait of Edouard Douyn de Lhuys (1805-1881), (Diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs). Business card (front). Photograph of Charles Reutlinger (1816-1880). Draw on albuminum.Vante 1881.

Sir John Herschel. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.

JAMES KENT (1763 - 1847), American jurist

Captain William Harrison,1812-1860. Commander of the 'Great Eastern'. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph byMayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Jean-Guillaume Viennet, fabuliste (Institut). Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Robert Grosvenor, 1st. Lord Ebury, 1801-1893. Chairman of the London Homeopathic Hospital. Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Luis Garrone. Process print.

William Scholefield (1809-1867), English radical Member of Parliament for Birmingham. First Mayor of Birmingham (1838) when the city was incorporated. Engraving from 'The Illustrated News of the World' (London, c1860).

FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). British chemist and physicist.

Sir George Biddell Airy, KCB, FRS, Astronomer Royal, 1877.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

This 1899 illustration shows Lord Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli). Earl of Beaconsfield, of Hughenden in the County of Buckingham, was a title in thePeerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1876 forPrime MinisterBenjamin Disraeli, a favourite ofQueen Victoria. Victoria favoured Disraeli'sTorypolicies over those of hisLiberalrival,William Ewart Gladstone.

Right Rev Charles J Ellicott, DD, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1876.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Ignacio Forres Palilla. Photograph.

ADOLPH FRIEDRICH ERDMANN von MENZEL (1815-1905) German artist

Photograph of William Sharpey (1802-1880) a Scottish anatomist and physiologist. Dated 19th Century

Ernest Renan, French philosopher and writer, 19th century. Artist: Antoine-Samuel Adam-Salomon

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Portrait, circa 1870's

Sir William James Erasmus Wilson. Photograph by E. Moira.

'The Reverend Robert Maguire, M.A.', c19th century. Artist: Daniel John Pound.

Henry Irving

William Lloyd Garrison ca. 1850 Southworth and Hawes American. William Lloyd Garrison 268336

JOHN WINSTON SPENCER 7th Duke of Marlborough Prominent Conservative Politician. His 3rd son was Lord Randolph Churchill. Date: 1822 - 1883

Sir HENRY HARTLEY FOWLER Statesman Date: 1830 - 1911

A cabinet photograph of César Franck, created in approximately 1880 in Paris. The photograph includes printed text on the back that reads 'Toutes les Recompenses Pierre Petit Opere Lui Meme 122, Rue Lafayette Paris.'

Sir Hector Clare Cameron. Photograph.

'William Boyd Carpenter (1841-1918) c1890, English churchman. Bishop of Ripon 1884-1911. He was Interested in eugenics and also President of the Society for Psychical Research.'

Jules Sandeau, French novelist, 1881. Artist: Unknown

Remlagare Rundgren came from Värmland to Fredriksfors paper mill and worked there, but then moved to Hybo.Storfar to Petter Carlsson, Hybo. Made for a time shoe butter which he called "Herkules". Photo from the 1880-1890s. Remlagare Rundgren kom från Värmland till Fredriksfors pappersbruk och arbetade där, men flyttade sedan till Hybo.Svärfar till Petter Carlsson, Hybo.Tillverkade en tid skosmörja som han kallade "Herkules".Foto från 1880-1890-talet.

Leopolda Rio de la Loza. Photograph by Cruces y Gamea.

William Henry Smith (1825-1891), son of William Henry Smith (1792-1865), English businessman and politician. He joined his father's newspaper business in 1846 and introduced the sale of books and newspapers at railway stations. In 1868 he was elected as a Conservative MP for Westminster. In 1877 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and is caricatured as Sir Joseph Porter singing in the operetta HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan: I've always voted according to the will of my party, And I've never thought for myself. I thought so little that they rewarded me By making me ruler of the Queen's House of Lords. During his three years in this position he was known as Pinafore Smith. Engraving, ca. 1885, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Dr. Capadore 1843-47 Hill and Adamson British, Scottish. Dr. Capadore 268566

THOMAS ALVA EDISON.

Benito Juarez (1806-72), President of Mexico 1858-72, 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, 1873

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 19 April 1881) was a British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and dandy who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal spokesman William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or Tory democracy. He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is to date the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth. circa 1866

Mr. Hockton; Napoleon Sarony (American, born Canada, 1821 - 1896); about 1885; Albumen silver print

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 21 December 1804, 19 April 1881, was a Conservative British statesman and successful novelist. Twice, in 1868 and from 1874 to 1880, he held the office of British Prime Minister, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Archibald ASION 1792-1867, English lawyer and historian. Copper engraving from the World S Great Men London, approx. 1870., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

CHARLES BROOK Yorkshire businessman and philanthropist. Date: 1814 - 1872

Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) Irish astronomer and mathematician; populariser of science. Lord Rosse's astronomer at Parsonstown; Royal Astronomer of Ireland 1874-1892. Photograph published London c1890

ALFRED MARSHALL - 1842/1924 - ECONOMISTA BRITANICO.

Baron Isidore Taylor, 1877, Félix Nadar, French, 1820-1910, 9 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (23.81 x 19.05 cm) (image)13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (34.29 x 24.77 cm) (sheet), Woodburytype, France, 19th century

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English Physicist and Chemist whose Experiments Contributed greatly to the Understanding of Electromagnetism, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by E

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