Historical Figures in Style

Portraits of notable figures from the past, dressed in formal wear. Each image reflects historical significance and fashion of their respective eras.

Adam Ritter von Burg, mathematician, technologist, Julius Gertinger -, photographer

Richard Westmacott. Photograph by John & Charles Watkins.

William Scott Moncrieff 1843-47 Hill and Adamson British, Scottish. William Scott Moncrieff. David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802-1870 Edinburgh, Scotland). 1843-47. Salted paper print from paper negative. Photographs

Dr. Robert Liston. Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848)

Rev. Dr. James Brewster; Hill & Adamson (Scottish, active 1843 - 1848); about 1844; Salted paper print from a Calotype negative; 18.4 x 14.8 cm (7 1,4 x 5 13,16 in.)

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt. Photograph.

Charles M Johnson, William Gladstone, 1896 William Gladstone

John Bright (1811-1889) British radical orator and statesman, born in Rochdale, Lancashire of Quaker parents. First elected as a Member of Parliament in 1843. Supported the Anti-Corn Law League, and the Reform Act of 1867. From 'Men of Mark' by Thompson Cooper (London, 1875). Woodburytype after photograph by Lock & Whitfield (active 1860s-1880s), English photographers.

THE RIGHT HON, EARL GRANVILLE, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, Außen- und Kolonialminister aus Extra Supplement to the Illustrated London News, Unknown

Portrait of Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Anonymous

Young, William .

Portrait of Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786 - 1889) was a French chemist whose work contributed to significant developments in science, medicine and art. France. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1886

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1875. J. Baker (American). Lithograph;

Unknown artist, portrait Wilhelm Stier (without dat.): Portrait by Wilhelm Stier. Pressure on paper, 24.4 x 18.8 cm (including scan edges) unbek. Künstler : Portrait Wilhelm Stier

Portrait of the author Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) by Schapiro, Konstantin (1839-1900)/Private Collection/1870/Albumin Photo/Russia/Portrait

Sir William Allan, P.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.

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.)

The Earl of Rosse, K.P., F.R.S.. Maull & Polyblank (British, active 1850s - 1860s)

Dr. Argyle Roberston. Date/Period: 1842 - 1843. Print. Salt, from a calotype negative. Height: 98 mm (3.85 in); Width: 87 mm (3.42 in). Author: Attributed to Dr. John Adamson.

F. de Lesseps. Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon); French, 1820-1910. Date: 1871-1876. Dimensions: 23.8 × 19.3 cm (image/paper); 34.2 × 26 cm (mount). Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique" (1876), volume 1. Origin: France. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Hon. Samuel Hooper 19th Century Mathew Brady, Quartermaster, and Other Civil War Photographs

Portrait of Lord Elgin, Plenipotentiary and Ambassador, Who Signed the Treaty; Felice Beato, English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909; China, Asia; November 2, 1860; Albumen silver print; Image: 16 x 12.4 cm (6 1/4 x 4 7/8 in.), Mount: 38.1 x 43.2 cm (15 x 17 in.)

Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)

Martin Van Buren 1782 to 1862. 8th president of the United States 1837to 1841 and a founder of the Democratic Party. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

Portret van Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, anonymous, 1870 - 1882 Photograph. visit card paper. cardboard albumen print portrait of a writer

James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, c1860 (1955). Artist: Unknown

Dr. Candlish. Elliott & Fry (founded 1863, dissolved 1963)

'Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) in 1860, American novelist and short story writer. His best remembered works are the novel ''The Scarlet Letter'', 1850, and ''Tanglewood Tales'', 1853. Portrait photograph.'

David Octavius Hill, Sir David Brewster, c. 1844, salt print from a calotype negative.

Frederick Douglass. Date/Period: 1876. Photograph. Albumen print. Height: 95 mm (3.74 in); Width: 56 mm (2.20 in). Author: George Kendall Warren.

'August Borsig 1804-1854. - Gemälde von Krüger', 1934. Artist: Unknown.

Mark Lemon , Journalists, Actors, Lemon, Mark, 1809-1870, Carte de Visite Collection

Portret Van Arthur Schopenhauer, Rogelio de Egusquiza, 1900 print paper etching scholar, philosopher. historical persons

Frederick Douglass (1818-95), American Social Reformer, Abolitionist and Statesman, Head and Shoulders Portrait, photographic reproduction by C.F. Conly of portrait by George Kendall Warren, 1876

(Louis) Hector Berlioz (1803-1865) French Romantic composer. From a photograph by Nadar, pseudonym of Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910).

Mathew Muir, circa 1870, Dunedin, by J W Allen.

Hugh Miller, J.G. Tunny, c. 1855 - c. 1857.

Sir James Paget. Mezzotint by T. O. Barlow after J. E. Millais, 1872.

Portrait of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Photo studio Elliott & Fry, London

Sir John Robert Steell 1843-47 Hill and Adamson British, Scottish. Sir John Robert Steell 268519

Portrait of John Bright, the English orator and radical politician. As well as serving as MP for Durham and Manchester he was also appointed President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Date: 1889

Portret Van Charles Floquet, Félix Swim photograph This photo is part of an album. France paper politician, e.g. party leader. historical persons France

Heinrich Ernst Karl Förster -, Bishop of Wroclaw, Fratelli D Alessandri, Photo Studio, Oscar Kramer -, Photographer

Paul Gavarni, Frédéric Sauvage, 1853 Frédéric Sauvage

Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, by Mathew Brady. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837).

Carte Portrait Ann Carmichael Wilson, c. 1904

Alexandre Dumas Père. Etienne Carjat & Co. (France, 1828-1906). France, 1876-1884. Photographs. Woodburytype

Dan S. Dickenson, N.Y. , Politicians, Dickinson, Daniel S. Daniel Stevens, 1800-1866, Carte de Visite Collection

The Right Honorable Sir John Taylor Coleridge, KNT. Herbert Watkins, photographer (English, 1828 - 1916) about 1875 Portrait of Sir John Taylor Coleridge. (Recto, mount) lower center, below image, black text imprint: "HERBERT FRY'S "NATIONAL GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS."; Lower center, black text imprint: "THE MEMOIR BY HERBERY FRY. / THE PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHED SPECIALLY BY / HERBERT WATKINS 315 REGENT STREET."; Lower right, singed by sitter in black ink: "J. T. Coleridge";

Ernest Renan (common name). Glass photographic plate. Museum of Romantic Life.

Portrait of Henrik Ibsen, Jan van Essen, 1888 print paper portrait of a writer

Thomas Henry Huxley. Photograph by W. & D. Downey.

Henry Hancock. Photograph by Moira & Haigh.

Sir J.F.W. Herschel. Julia Margaret Cameron (British, born India, 1815 - 1879)

John M. Clayton, ca. 1850s. Mathhew Brady Studio

Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, 1817, 1903, German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th-century document

S() Plessi. Photograph by A. Lumière, 1884.

'Lord Lawrence', c1964-1869, (1925). Creator: Unknown.

SIR RICHARD OWEN naturalist Date: 1804 - 1892

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

Michel Eugène Chevreul. Photogravure by Krakow after G. F. Tournachon Nadar, 1886.

Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough KP, GCSI, KCB, PC (3 November 1779 - 2 March 1869), was a British Army officer. He was said to have commanded in more general actions than any other British officer of the 19th century except the Duke of Wellington. Born at Woodstown House, County Limerick, he was the son of Lieut.-Colonel George Gough (1750-1836) of Woodstown House, Deputy-Governor of County Limerick, and his wife Letitia Bunbury, daughter of Thomas Bunbury of Lisnevagh House and Moyle, Co. Carlow. He was a member of an old Anglo-Irish family long settled in County Limerick since the early 17th century. He served in South Africa, the West Indies, Surinam, the Peninsular War and India before being appointed commander-in-chief of the British forces in China during the First Opium War (1839-1842). After the conclusion of the Treaty of Nanking in August 1842 the British forces were withdrawn, and before the close of the year Gough, who had been made a GCB in the previous year f

Frederick DOUGLASS, 1818-95, American abolitionist, writer and reformer, born into slavery, photographed c. 1879.

Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolitionist orator, c. 1876-80. Throughout the Reconstruction era, Douglass' speeches stressed the importance of work, and the exercise of voting rights. Photo by George Kendall Warren (BSLOC_2018_5_32)

Michael Faraday and Mrs M. Faraday (). Photograph by Henry Dixon & Sons Ltd.

Portrait of Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896), Brazilian composer (bust). unknown, author

Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 - 9 February 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), Jules Michelet was the first historian to use and define the word Renaissance ('Rebirth' in French), as a period in Europe's cultural history that represented a drastic break from the Middle Ages, creating a modern understanding of humanity and its place in the world.

Geronimo (Guiyatle), Apache.

Portrait, John Winthrop,1715-1799, son of Govenor John Winthrop of Massachusetts, by Copley, at Harvard , Portrait paintings, Winthrop, John, 1714-1779. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

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