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Oil paintings depicting men in 19th-century attire, showcasing formal postures and rich historical contexts.

Portrait of Alderman Edward Corn Osborne, 1873 By William Thomas Roden, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male
Portrait of Alderman Edward Corn Osborne, 1873 By William Thomas Roden, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male
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Millard Fillmore, 13th President to the United States America, 1850 - 1853Robert Cleghorn. Photograph by Annan after H. Raeburn.Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1769 - 1859, German naturalistThomas Stone 1743 to 1787 American statesman and Founding Father A signatory of Declaration of Independence 19th century engraving by G.B. Ellis from a drawing by J.B. Longacre from a painting by PineItaly, Naples, Portrait of Italian composer Saverio Mercadante (1795 - 1870)Joost van den Vondel, 17th century Dutch poet and dramatist, c1870.Artist: H SluyterMON , ALEJANDRO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . 1801 - 1882. OLEO DE ANTONIO MARIA ESQUIVEL. MINISTERIO DE HACIENDA . MADRID.James Monroe. oil on canvas. Date: 1816. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.John Quincy Adams. Date/Period: Ca. 1850, from an 1844 original. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 759 mm (29.88 in); Width: 638 mm (25.11 in). Author: George Caleb Bingham.William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic AgeDeWitt Clinton served as a US Senator, Mayor of New York City, and Governor of New York. This portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, was painted in 1816 (BSLOC_2019_7_42)Portrait Of Joseph Gillot, 1872. By Henry Turner MunnsPhilip Barbour, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1911. Artist: Kate EdwardsAndrew Jackson (1767-1845), Seventh President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Engraving by Charles C. Torrey from an Original Painting by R.E.W. Earl, 1826Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), German Opera Composer, half-length Portrait, Unidentified ArtistWILLIAN HENRY HARRISON. POLITICO EEUU. 1773 - 1841. NOVENO PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS , 1840. GRABADO DE CURRIER.William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811 - 1863, English writerDaniel Webster - American Statesman, Senator (January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852)Jules Grevy (1807-1891). President of the French Third Republic. Portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1879. Colored.Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1835 George Catlin. Portrait of a Gentleman 15018JOHN JACOB ASTOR, 1825, by John Wesley Jarvis, painting, oil on canvas. He made a fortune in the fur trade. As a teenager, he emigrated from Germany to England, and then to the US after the Revolution. His American Fur Company successfully competed with the British Hudson Bay Company and Canadian North West Company. He was the founder of the fortune that launched the socially prominent Astor family of New York City (BSLOC_2019_9_168)Portrait of Sir Daniel Gooch by Sir Francis Grant dated 1872Henry Clay. Date: c. 1833. Gouache on paper. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.William Ewart Gladstone, 1809 - 1898, a former British Prime MinisterJohn C Calhoun 1845 George Peter Alexander HealyBenito JUAREZ GARCIA, 1806-72, Mexican statesman, as Rector of the Instituto de Ciencias, 1852Hector Berlioz ( 1803 1869) French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem).George Washington Stanley (1775-1864, B.A.1793). Artist: UnknownJohn C. Calhoun. Date/Period: Ca. 1845. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 919 mm (36.18 in); Width: 741 mm (29.17 in). Author: GEORGE PETER ALEXANDER HEALY.Thomas Jefferson in 1856 posthumous portrait by Thomas Sully, after a work made around 1821 when Jefferson was 73 years old (BSLOC_2019_6_142)Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, digitally editedAndrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, (1933). Artist: Samuel Lovett WaldoPortrait of Girolamo Crescentini (Urbania, 1762 - Naples, 1846), Italian composer and sopranist. Painting by Matteo Zampella.Vicente Lopez, portrait of Enrique Odriozola doctor, 1841, oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, Spain.Franklin Pierce: Democratic candidate for fourtheenth president of the United States | Library of CongressJohn Tyler, Tenth President of the United States, Lithograph, Nathaniel Currier, 1841Vicente Lopez, portrait of Enrique Odriozola doctor, 1841, oil on canvas, Alava Fine Arts Museum, Vitoria, Basque Country, SpainFranklin Pierce 1804 to 1869. 14th president of the United States 1853 to 1857. From painting by Alonzo ChappelAndrew Jackson 7th president of the United States Date: 1767 - 1845Salmon P. Chase - Secretary of the treasury, 1861Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1778 - 1868, a British writer, lawyer, scientist, Reform Act 1832, Slavery Abolition ActPortrait of U.S. president Andrew JacksonThomas Paine, English-born American political and philosopher, wrote a 1775 pamphlet 'Common Sense', an extremely influential argument for American Independence. Lithograph after George Romney's painting of 1792 (BSLOC_2019_4_127)Andrew Jackson. oil on canvas. Date: 1836-1837. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.Portrait of an Irish Gentleman George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882-1925). , January-February 1922. Conté crayon on paper, Sheet: 11 1/8 x 9 5/16 in. (28.3 x 23.7 cm). American Art January-February 1922Portrait of Charles Pemberton, 1800-1850 British School, Portrait, Male, YoungDaniel Webster (1782-1852) American Orator and Politician Culver Pictures, Inc.Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak (1803-1868). British army officer. 1st White Rajah of Sarawak (Island of Borneo). Portrait by Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878). Oil on canvas (142,9 x 111,1 cm), 1847. National Portrait Gallery. London. England. United Kingdom. Author: Sir Francis Grant (1803-1878). Scottish painter.Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice Supreme Court, by Mathew Brady in the Capitol at Washington, in March 1849. He served as President Andrew Jackson's Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury before Jackson nominated him to the court in 1836, where he would serve for 28 years. He delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ruling that African Americans could not be considered citizens (BSLOC_2019_8_104)Portrait of Domenico Guerrazzi ( Livorno, 1804 - Cecina, 1873), Italian patriot and writer. Painting by Antonio Ciseri (1821-1891).Portrait of Thomas Graham by Wilhelm Trautsschold dated 1850Robert Lenox Kennedy (1822-87). Portrait by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906). Oil on canvas, 1890.Portrait of Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł. nieznany malarz polski, painterJohan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798-1872) Dutch statesman. painting by Dutch artist Jozef Israels (1824-1911) in the Senate Chamber in Leiden.MANUEL SEIJAS LOZANO (1800/1868) - PRESIDENTE DEL SENADO EN 1867 EN LA SEGUNDA LEGISLATURA - SIGLO XIX. Author: FRANCISCO JOVER CASANOVA (1836-1890). Location: SENADO-PINTURA. MADRID. SPAIN.William Henry Seward 1801 to 1872. American politician who negotiated Alaska Purchase. From painting by Alonzo ChappelPortrait of composer Richard Wagner by Caesar Willich, Oil on canvas, circa 1862, 1825-1886, Germany, Mannheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, 64x34,6'Joaquín de la Pezuela, 1st Marquis of Viluma', ca. 1825. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN. PEZUELA JOAQUIN DE. VILUMA MARQUES DE. MARQUES DE VILUMA.EDISON, Thomas Alva (Milan, Ohio, 1847-West Orange, New Jersey, 1931). American inventor. Among his most important inventions include the phonograph (1877) and the incandescent lamp (1879). In 1927 he was appointed member of the "National Academy of Sciences".RETRATO DE JUAN CARLOS I - GRABADO - 1981. Author: ANTONIO ZARCO. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-ARCHIVO. MADRID. SPAIN. JUAN CARLOS I DE BORBON (1938-). JUAN CARLOS I DE ESPAÑA (1938-).Portrait Of Alderman William Brinsley, 1880. By Henry Turner MunnsThomas Jefferson, US PresidentsPortrait of John Quincy Adams after Thomas Sully and Gilbert Stuart, 1885. John Quincy Adams 1767 1848) was the sixth President of the United States (18251829)Portrait of Mariano Galvez (1794-1862), Guatemalan Head of State. Guatemala, 19th century.Francisco Aballi. Chairman of the National Committee of Matanzas. Island of Cuba. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1872. Colored.1800s JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1767-1848 SIXTH 6th AMERICAN PRESIDENT FEDERALIST REPUBLICAN DIPLOMAT ATTORNEY FOR THE AMISTAD SLAVESMartin Van Buren (1782-1862) Eighth President of the United States of America (1837-1841), the first President to be born an American citizen. Engraving.John Quincy Adams. Date/Period: 1858. Painting. Oil on canvas Oil on canvas. Height: 1,574.80 mm (62 in); Width: 1,193.80 mm (47 in). Author: GEORGE P. A. HEALY.Edward George Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869), English statesman. Three times Prime Minister. From The World's Great Men (London, ca. 1870) . Engraving, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not statedGEORG HEGEL (1770-1831) FILOSOFO ALEMAN.