Famous Composers

Classic portraits of legendary composers with characteristic long hair, conveying their artistic legacy and emotion.

Portrait of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) by Gerschel, Charles (1871-1948)/Private Collection/Phototypie/France/Portrait

Franz Liszt; Nadar, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910); 1886; Gelatin silver print; 15.3 x 10.9 cm (6 x 4 5,16 in.)

Franz Liszt. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Franz Liszt. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Portrait of M Czyzna photography from the cute after Kazimierz Alchimowicz, painter; Raczyk Ski, Jan (Fl. 1905-Ca 1925); 1905 (1905-00-00-1905-00-00);

Sir John Herschel. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1867. Dimensions: 21.4 × 16.1 cm (image); 38.2 × 28.3 cm (paper). Photogravure, from "Sun Artists, Number 5" (1890). Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

'Franz Liszt', (1811-1886). Hungarian pianist and composer, 1894-1907. Artist: Unknown.

Sir John Herschel. State state plan Hamburg, collection of the history of photography

PORTRET has franz flour; F. Liszt.

Portrait of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) by Gerschel, Charles (1871-1948)/Private Collection/Phototypie/France/Portrait

Franz Liszt; Nadar, Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910); 1886; Gelatin silver print; 15.4 x 11 cm (6 1,16 x 4 5,16 in.)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) the Hungarian composer in old age

Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) a German philosopher. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Professor Theodor Mommsen by Wilhelm Dreesen on silver gelatin paper, mounted in cabinet format, depicting the historian in formal attire, 1899.

Sir John Herschel April 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) was Victorian Englands preeminent scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, considered the equal of Sir Isaac Newton. Cameron met him in 1836 in Capetown, South Africa, where she was recuperating from illness and he was charting the stars of the southern hemisphere and recording the native flora. Just a few years later Herschel wrote to her in Calcutta of Henry Talbots invention of photography and sent her the first photographs she had ever seen—scientific discoveries that were “water to the parched lips of the starved,” she recalled. Of her 1867 portraits of Herschel, she wrote: “From my earliest girlhood I had loved and honoured him, and it was after a friendship of 31 years duration that the high task of giving his portrait to the nation was allotted to me,” sounding a bit as though she were working on a divine commission rather than on a personal, spiritual, artistic quest—with,

Franz Liszt. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

Franz Liszt, circa 1880

Sir John Herschel: wearing a cap and cape. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867.

Sir John Herschel. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867.

Thomas Webster. 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.

Liszt in his 75th Year, Classical Composers

Portrait of Niels Gade (1817-1890) a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. Dated 19th Century

Sir John Herschel 1875 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. Sir John Herschel. Julia Margaret Cameron (British (born India), Calcutta 1815-1879 Kalutara, Ceylon). 1875. Carbon print. Photographs

Sir John Herschel 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron British, born India. Sir John Herschel 268827

Thomas, Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist and man of science. Supporter of Darwin. After portrait by John Collier. From Edward Clodd 'Pioneers of Evolution', London, 1908

Franz Liszt. State state plan Hamburg, collection of the history of photography

Sir John Herschel. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1867. Dimensions: 36 × 27.2 cm (image/paper); 42.3 × 32.8 cm (mount). Carbon print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson,1832-1910. Norwegian writer and political leader. Nobel for literature 1903. From the book ""The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, Scandinavian and Dutch, Volume 19""

Sir John Herschel. Julia Margaret Cameron; English, 1815-1879. Date: 1867. Dimensions: 32 × 25.9 cm (image/paper); 38.3 × 31.7 cm (mount). Carbon print. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG Norwegian musician

Henrik Johan Ibsen (1828 ñ 23 May 1906) major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director

Henry Ward Beecher (died 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. His rhetorical focus on Christ's love has influenced mainstream Christianity to this day. His sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American author and abolitionist who became best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Franz Liszt. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON Norwegian writer, best known for his social dramas. Date: 1832 - 1910

Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843-1907) Norwegian composer. After a photograph.

Dr. Candlish; Elliott & Fry; about 1865; Albumen silver print

Franz Liszt. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

MICHEL EUGENE CHEVREUL French chemist in old age with his autograph Date: 1786-1889

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) British biologist, supporter of Darwin and evolution. Grandfather of Julian and Aldous Huxley. Engraving.

A. Rubinstein; Portrait of composer, pianist and conductor Anton Rubinstein.

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 - 1 November 1903) was a German historian and is considered one of the most important classical scholars of the 19th century. Nobel Prize winner 1902, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date unknown

E-L'ILLUSTRAZIONE ITALIANA-GIUSEPPE VERDI EN SU DESPACHO-FOTOGRAFIA BLANCO Y NEGRO-HACIA 1900. GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901).

A. Rubinstein

Portrait of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, (15th June 1843 - 4th September 1907).

Stefan George (1869-1933) German poet, humanistic philosopher & recluse

Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf, 1860 - 1903. Seen here aged 29. Austrian composer. From Hugo Wolf, 1860 -1903 Sein Leben in Bildern (His Life in Pictures) published 1937.

Louis Daguerre, Inventor of Photography

Silver gelatin cabinet photograph by Wilhelm Dreesen showing Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer, around 1899, capturing his portrait and formal attire.

Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895) in 1884. French writer. His novel 'La dame aux camelias' (1848) was the basic story for Verdi's opera 'La Traviata'. Photograph by Fontaine.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer, 1910.Artist: Ernest H Mills

Photographic portrait of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) a Norwegian composer and pianist. Dated 20th Century

John Frederick Herschel (1792-1871) English astronomer and scientist, from photograph when Master of the Mint (1850-1855) showing him holding a florin (2 shilling piece) which was being introduced with the idea of decimalization of the coinage.

JOHAN GUSTAF KNUT WICKSELL (1851-1926) ECONOMISTA SUECO. KNUNT WICKSELL J G.

Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 - 31 December 1970) was an English composer; writer; and poet.

Eustachy Tyszkiewicz (1814-1873). 1854. Count, Historian, Founder of the Vilnius Archaeologicl Museum (Lithuanian). Engraving by Adolphe Lafosse (1810-1879).

HONORE DAUMIER French satirical artist, photographed in 1868. Date: 1808 - 1879

Photographic portrait of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) a German Jewish philosopher and one of the founders of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism. Dated 20th Century

Johannes Brahms, (1833-1897), German Composer, c.1866. Halftone from a photograph

Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 - 11 April 1890), English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man.

Mark Hambourg (composer)

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein 1829 to 1894 Russian pianist, composer and conductor

Alexandre Dumas, the Younger 1824, 1895, French writer, son of Dumas. From the book The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, French Volume 4, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher. Dated 20th Century

Victor Hugo, his arms crossed, his right hand slipped inside his jacket ". Photography of Auguste Vacquerie (1819-1895) and Charles Hugo (1826-1871), around 1853-1855. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 26865-9 Arm Croisies, French writer, in bust, exile, portrait, Second Empire, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th century

HENRIK IBSEN Norwegian writer

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) - English Scientist and champion of Darwin's Theory of Evolution Date: 1889

John Henning as Edie Ochiltree; Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848); 1846 - 1847; Salted paper print from a Calotype negative; 20.5 x 15.7 cm (8 1,16 x 6 3,16 in.)

Portret van John Frederick William Herschel, Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1888 - in or before 1893 photomechanical print paper historical persons. astronomy (and cosmography) (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)

Portrait of Albert Einstein

Portrait of the Composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Hanfstaengl, Franz (1804-1877)

Hungary, Budapest, Bela Viktor Janos Bartok in the country

Photograph of Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) an Austrian composer of Slovene origin. Dated 19th Century

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) (1835-1910) American Author

Portrait of Edmondo De Amicis (1846-1908), Italian writer, photograph by Bertieri, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXV, No 11, March 15, 1908.

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG Norwegian musician Date: 1843 - 1907

ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar Date: 1875 - 1965

Rudolf Koppitz's 1923 portrait of Heinrich Kessler is printed on bromsilbergelatine development paper and mounted on four layers of paper and cardboard.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist Date: 1865 - 1939

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) by Anonymous /The Russian State Library, Moscow/1853/Phototypie/Germany/Portrait

JACQUES DAGUERRE 1787-1851 INVENTOR OF THE DAGUERROTYPE PROCESS.

Sir James Young Simpson. Photograph by John Moffat.

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903). German jurist and historian. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902. Engraving, early 20th century. Colored.

Jack London, sitting

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Anonymous

Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company Ltd.

ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955), 1921. Author: WULFANT MAX. Location: ACADEMIA DE CIENCIAS. France.

Photographic print of Georg Brandes (1842-1927) a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature. Dated 20th Century

Congressman Julius Kahn circa 1905 - 1924.

EDVARD HAGERUP GRIEG Norwegian musician Date: 1843 - 1907

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German composer, 1866. halftone from a photograph, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American author.

J.K. Jerome

August Strindberg. Self -portrait. Nordic

Portrait of Anton Rubinstein by Vasili Grigoryevich Perov, Oil on canvas, 1870, 1834-1882, Russia, Moscow, State Central M. Glinka Museum of Music, 95x79

Bust of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) a German composer. Dated 19th Century

Franz Liszt by Nadar, March 1886

Lloyd George On Eve Of Both Birthday - Still Leonine and keen eyed on the eve of his 80th Birthday, which feel on Jan 17, was David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England in the World War, when this photo was taken the day before at his farm at Churt, Surrey. January 26, 1943. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) British biologist, supporter of Darwin and evolution. Grandfather of Julian and Aldous Huxley. Huxley at his desk c1890. Engraving after portrait by John Collier

Photograph of Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890) important figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. Dated 1880

Portrait of Gabriel Urbain Fauré, 1845 - 1924, French composer, digitally edited according to a photograph

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