Classic Historical Figures Portraits

Artistic images of historical and significant figures, showcasing formal attire and mood from the late 19th to early 20th century, often in vintage styles.

King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) here as a young man. Impeccably dressed in a wonderful (nautical) outfit of starched collar, reefer jacket and peaked naval hat, holding a cigarette - not a hair out of place! This picture was taken at Cowes Regatta. circa 1906

Richard Tauber as Lenski

Portrait Tino Pattiera

Woodrow Wilson, Head and Shoulders Portrait while Student at Davidson College, South Carolina, USA, photograph by Wearn & Hix, 1873

Studio Portrait of David Vermeulen, C.J.L. Vermeulen, 1918.

Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944), Italian composer and conductor, drawing by L Bompard, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXVIII, No 43, October 22, 1911.

March 1912. Ricardo Puga, first actor of the Moreno company. Photo: Calvache.

Portrait of H.J.H. Baron van Boetzelaer, born 1876, member of the City Council of Utrecht (1919 - 1927), died 1952. Borst statue from the front.

Gelatin silver print - Hector E. Plouffe , Montreal, Quebec, 1910 Joseph Amédée Dumas

Albert Reiss

King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941) here as a young man. Impeccably dressed in a wonderful (nautical) outfit of starched collar, reefer jacket and peaked naval hat, holding a cigarette - not a hair out of place! This picture was taken at Cowes Regatta. circa 1906

Earlson 6 Square, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Herman Henry William Pauling, (father of Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American chemist. won the 1954 and 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) 1905

Irving W. Adams

Author Konstantin Shilovsky (1848-1893) by Anonymous /Private Collection/1860s-1870s/Photoengraving/Russia/Portrait

Berenice Abbott, Portrait of Lood van Bennekom, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Hugo Henneberg's circa 1900 portrait is printed using gummidruck.

Portrait of an unknown man, Albert Capelle, 1889 - 1893 Photograph. visit card Paris paper. cardboard albumen print historical persons. adult man

Portrait of the silent film actor Vitold Alfonsovich Polonsky (1879-1919) by Anonymous / Private Collection / Realism / 1916 / Russia / Lithograph / Portrait /

Portrait of Louis Davids, Anonymous, 1900 - 1940 photograph unknown photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons. portrait of actor, actress

Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926) - American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational acts of escapology. Date: 1905

(French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Joseph Gobetchia).

Walter Thomas young man in bow tie and carnation in lapel of coat; Lewis (American, active New Brian, Connecticut 1880s); about 1910; Bromide print

Portrait of Jules Truffier (1856-1943), poet, actor, societary of the French comedy, librettist, professor at the conservatory Portrait of Jules Truffier (1856-1943), poet, actor, member of the French comedy, librettist, professor at the Conservatoire. Business card (front). Photograph of Emile TOURTIN. Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

Walter Thomas young man in bow tie and carnation in lapel of coat. Lewis (American, active New Brian, Connecticut 1880s)

Igor Severyanin (1887-1941) by Anonymous /Private Collection/1910s/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Gelatin silver print - Portrait of an unidentified man, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, 1887-1905

W.S. Gordon. 1875; Costello (American, active 1870s); 1875; Albumen silver print

Copy of a portrait, inscribed Mrs Pym, 17 July 1930, Wellington, by Cuba Photographic Studio.

Lionel L Hitchings, 1920s, maker unknown.

Berenice Abbott, photograph, 1925-30, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Portrait of Willem Visser. Portrait of Willem Visser (Born 1877 at Warder), married to Grietje Groot.

Photo of the right-hander Manuel Jiménez "Chicuelo" a few days before his debut in the bullring in Madrid on August 8, 1919.

Theodor Blumer (1881-1964; Composer, conductor). Photography (vintage print with negative retouching on cardboard; with embossing stamp of the studio Recto) by Hugo Erfurth, Dresden 1916

Mr Wallace Hartley, Bandmaster on the Titanic Date: 1912

Henry Miller

George Eastman. Paul Nadar (French, 1856 - 1939)

Portrait of Harry Houdini, escapologist

01/01/1930. Portrait of Federico Oliver Crespo, writer, playwright, theater director and sculptor, first president of the General Society of Authors of Spain.

03/31/1917. Juan Silveti, matador of the Inaugural bullfight. Photo: Vandel -Approximate date.

G.H. Lindsey. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company.

Ebner, Ferdinand Robert, Portrait of Constant Willem Lunsingh Scheurleer, recto - printed, This photo is part of an album., photograph, photo, photos, La Haye et Amsterdam., height 83 mm, width 56 mm, 1873-12-15 - 1919-03-21, photographer, 1910 - 1913, photographic paper, photo paper, cardboard, gelatin silver print, developing gelatin silver print

Chas. W. Clark baritone

Portrait of the poet Sergei Yessenin (1895-1925) by Nappelbaum, Moisei Solomonovich (1869-1958)/The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1925/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Portrait of Goverdus Henricus Jonker, Anonymous, 1910 - 1940 photograph cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print historical persons

Duke of Windsor - Obituary. January 1, 1928.

JOSEF HOFMANN Polish pianist (in 1903). Date: 1876 - 1957

Portrait of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anonymous

Mr Frank Toni studio portraits, portraits, black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives

J.H. Kouns

Arnold Offerdahl. 1930 - 1949. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs

'Frank Edward Woolley (1887-1978), English all-round cricketer. Photograph'

Photographic portrait of Alexander Kerensky (1881-1970) a Russian lawyer and key political figure in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Dated 20th Century

Mrs Pervin 1/2 doz PC, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Archie Roosevelt

The young Prince Edward, later Edward VIII (1894 - 1972), King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France Mr. Dubreuilh fils , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur Dubreuilh fils). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, Mr Dubreuil (son) 17, 1 1918 France, Boulogne, Mr Dubreuil

Prince Henry as a boy. May 6, 1935. (Photo by Empire Press)

Portrait of an unknown young man, Strauss & Co., 1906 Photograph. visit card Vienna baryta paper. cardboard gelatin silver print youth, adolescent. anonymous historical person portrayed

Portrait of the author Vsevolod M. Garshin (1855-1888) by Carrick, William Andreevich (1827-1878)/The State Museum of A.S. Pushkin, Moscow/1870s/Albumin Photo/Russia/Portrait

Fred Carpenter. Dancer. January 29, 1932

Nicolopulo - greek. William Waston Washburn (American, 1827 - 1903)

Portrait of a young man August Radwan (1867-1957) ?, pianist (view from the knees upwards). unknown, photographer

Marquis of Granby

Gelatin silver print - Portrait of an unidentified man, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, 1885-1911 Napoléon Beauregard

Portrait of Lucas Jonker, Cornelia Hendrika Jonker (Circle of), 1900 - 1940 photograph photographic support historical persons

Joseph O'Malley; Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852 - 1934); New York, New York, United States; about 1900; Platinum print; 14.5 x 9.8 cm (5 11,16 x 3 7,8 in.)

Musee de Grenoble - Fantin-Latour (Painter Dauphinois) / Portrait of the author at the age of 28

Young man, 1920s, New Zealand, by Panto Studio.

Prince Felix Yusupov, (1887 1967), Russian aristocrat known for participating in the assassination of Grigori Rasputin

Property of Albert Kahn, Boulogne, France sir. .. , (French - Propriété d' Albert Kahn , Boulogne , France Monsieur. ..). shipwrecked image, portrait, man, Human being, France , Boulogne , Portraits , Mr. .

Mortimer Burroughs, Sr., ca. 1908.. 1908. Photographs. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

Robinson, circa 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.

Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), Prince Imperial, said Louis-Napoleon, leaning on a file. Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte (1856-1879), Prince Imperial, said Louis-Napoleon, leaning on a file. Photograph of Downey, W. & D. (1829-1915). Draw on albuminum paper. Around 1870.

Elsevier photo collection. J.C. Pabst, Dutch envoy Tokyo. 1932. Japan, Tokyo

Georges Auric (1899 - 1983) French composer

01/01/1916. Police officer Manuel Blasco, from the Madrid Criminal Investigation Brigade, directed by Ramón Fernández Luna. Together with his partner, agent Fernando Heredia, he arrested Eduardo Arcos, "Fantomas" or "The King of Thieves." Photograph taken from a newspaper of the time.

Prince Max of Hohenberg ca. 1913.

Joseph Bell. Photograph by A. Swan Watson.

Canon H.H. Henson

Photograph of Wojciech Korfanty (1873-1939) Polish nationalist activist, journalist and politician, serving as member of the German parliaments Reichstag and Prussian Landtag, and later on, in the Polish Sejm. Dated 1898

Tom Newman, Billiards champion, 1935. Artist: Unknown

Fred Caralunas

Prince George later King George V of England in 1877

Phil. Miller

Sessue Hayakawa (1889-1973), Japanese and American film actor. 20th century

Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941. Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia,1888-1918. As a boy.

12/31/1929. Youth portrait of Miguel Hernández.

Portrait of a man, inscribed 'Wing Lee' black-and-white negatives, gelatin dry plate negatives, portraits

Portrait of the violinist Herman Leijdesdorff. .

Alfred Noyes

'W. B. Yeats', c1900, (1934). Artist: Unknown.

'Portrait of Count F.F. Sumarokov-Elston'. Circa 1908. Dimensions: 9,4x7 cm (oval). Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: R. de San Gallo.

Crown Prince of Italy

Maurice J. Powers

Portrait choirmaster Cor Kint, Albert Greiner, 1880 - 1900.

Portrait of Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) (buste en face); Wysocki, W Nadzimierz (1846-1894); 1883 (1883-00-00-1883-00-00);Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941), Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) - iconography, Paderewski, Ignacy Jan (1860-1941) - collection, art of photography (Warsaw - exhibition - 1990), composers, musicians, pianists, Poland (culture), portraits, men's portraits, testamentary record (provenance)

Anthony "Bill" Grace

KNVB photo collection. Left back Hans Tetzner.nederland - Romania (6-0), played on May 27, 1924 in Stade de Colombes, during the Olympic Games in Paris .. May 27, 1924. France, Paris

02/01/1908. Portrait of the baritone Giovanni Polese. The latest "debuts" of the Teatro Real.

RAMON PEREZ DE AYALA-GENERACION 1914.

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