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Historical Male Portraits

Classic portraits of notable men from the 19th century, featuring formal attire and serious expressions, captured in rich detail.

Portrait of the composer Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) by Photo studio A. Federski /Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek/1880s/Photograph/Portrait

Portrait of Charles de Varigny (1829-1899) a French adventurer, diplomat, translator and writer. Dated 19th Century

12/31/1905. Don Rafael Andrade Navarrete.

Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet, 1816 - 1904. Victorian ironmaster and Liberal Party politician. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907.

'Ribot', c1893. Artist: Unknown.

PI Y MARGALL , FRANCISCO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. BARCELONA 1824-1901.

Nathaniel P. H. Melvin , Mayors. Lawrence

Portrait of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, a 19th Century Russian writer. Painted by Ilya Repin (1844-1930) a Russian realist painter. Dated 19th Century

Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910) Swiss author and philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross between 1935 and 1945.

Dr. Stanley Hall, J.E. Purdy, Boston 1904.

Portrait of Henrik Cedergren.

12/31/1939. Francisco Cambó.

General William Booth 8 14 1912.

Portrait of Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856-1921) a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire. Dated 20th Century

Keir Hardie, portrait bust

Photograph of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) an Italian opera composer. Dated 19th Century

Dr. A. Jacobi

SAMUEL BUTLER author of 'Erewhon' and 'The way of all flesh' photo March 1888 Date: 1835 - 1902

Charles Carlyle Darwin, an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory

Joaquim Rubió i Ors (1818-1899). Escritor y catedrático catalán. Grabado de 1890.

England/UK: Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist, geologist and author of 'On the Origin of the Species' (1859), Leonard Darwin, 1874

United States Senator John Thornton of Louisiana ca. early 1900s.

FERRAN , JAIME MEDICO ESPAÑOL.CORBERA DEL EBRO (TARRAGONA) 1852-1929.

V. district governor J. Johnsoninitiator to VBJ (Varberg-Borås Railway)

Hon. John A. Quitman of Mississippi

Whitelaw Reid.

Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of the United States (1833-1901)

Sir George Anderson Critchett. Photograph by Malcolm Arbuthnot.

William Bell (1830 to 1910), English-American photographer, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time

Walt Whitman, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right, wearing hat, circa 1887

Gaston-Lucien WORTH, 1853-1924, son of pioneering English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth, founder of House of Worth in Paris in 1858

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American poet and educator, wrote Paul Revere's Ride, Hiawatha,and Evangeline.

Frederick Belding Power. Photograph.

England/UK: Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist, geologist and author of 'On the Origin of the Species' (1859), Herbert Rose Barraud, 1881

Sir William Henry Allchin. Photogravure after H. Dixon.

Eugen Karl Duehring, 12 January 1833, 21 September 1921, philosopher, national economist and co-founder of racial anti-Semitism in the German Empire, photo taken in 1892

Marcelino MENENDEZ y Pelayo, 1856-1912, Spanish literary critic and historian

Portrait of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Schapiro, Konstantin (1839-1900)

MARIANO AGUILO FUSTER 1825-1900. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Sir Anthony Panizzi. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

Colonel Hewett, circa 1880, maker unknown.

Sir Andrew Noble. Photograph, c. 1907.

ESQUERDO, JOSE MARIA. MEDICO ESPAÑOL. VILLAJOYOSA 1842-1912 REPRODUCCION FOTO.

Sweden: Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833 - 1896), chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Photographic portrait, Gosta Florman (1831 - 1900), late 19th Century

Portrait of Attorney-General Edward Bates, officer of the United States government. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 , Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865. United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Bates, Edward.

'Henry W. Longfellow, New England Poet', 1923.Artist: Rischgitz Collection

MONTERO RIOS , EUGENIO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL . SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA 1832 - 1914. OLEO ANONIMO. MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION Y CIENCIA . MADRID.

12/31/1909. Joaquin Costa.

John Milton Hay (1838-1905), American Politician and Diplomat, served as U.S. Secretary of State 1898-1905, head and shoulders Portrait, Pach Brothers Studio, 1904

Illustration of Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), a Norwegian playwright, director and poet. Dated 1898

Manuel de Bofarull y de Sartorio (1816-1892), archivero e historiador catalán. Grabado de 1892.

Nikolaus Pasitoch.

PORTRAIT OF FERDINAND ELLERMAN.

BENJAMIN HARRISON - XXIII PRESIDENTE DE ESTADOS UNIDOS.

Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby (1825-1895), 1890.Artist: W&D Downey

Bishop Hadfield, circa 1890, New Zealand, maker unknown.

Gottfried Keller, 1819-1890, a Swiss poet and politician, historical engraving, about 1888

(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896) French composer and Director of the Paris Conservatoire from 1871. From a photograph by Nadar, pseudonym of Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910).

Edwin McMasters Stanton, President Lincoln's Secretary of War, 1860s (1955). Artist: Unknown

1860s 1866 SAMUEL F B MORSE PAINTER AND INVENTOR OF MORSE CODE SEATED WITH TELEGRAPH PROUDLY WEARING MEDALS LOOKING AT CAMERA

Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 - 1924) American Republican Senator. best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles.

Redfield Proctor, (1831-1908), 1920s. Artist: Unknown

MONTORO , RAFAEL. ESCRITOR Y POLITICO CUBANO . 1852 - 1933. OLEO DE R . ESTALELLA. ATENEO DE MADRID.

William James (1842-1910). American philosopher and psychologist.

Electrical lighting generally. Portrait of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan. The English inventor of the electric light bulb.

Portrait of Stenografen. Franz Jacob Wigard

HOPKINSON JOHN 1824/1902 INGENIERO Y FISICO BRITANICO, INVENTOR DEL SISTEMA TRIFASICO ELECTRICO.

General' William Booth (1829-1912) Evangelical social worker and founder of the Salvation Army. Engraving 1894.

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the Telephone circa 1905-1922 - Alexander Graham Bell portrait.

Prince Johann von and zu Liechtenstein, inv, left

Karl Wilhelm Theodor Richard Hertwig. Photograph by Müller- Milsdorf, 1930.

Death Of Famous Artist -- The Hon. John Collier, the well-known artist, died today April II at his Hampstead home. He was 84 years of age. May 27, 1934. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

King Edward VII in a Tyrolean hat, 1903 (1911). The King photographed in Vienna in September, 1903. From "Edward VII: His Life and Times, Volume II", edited by Sir Richard Holmes, K.C.V.O. The Amalgated Press, Ltd., London, 1911 (Colorised black and white print).

George Bernard Shaw, British Playwright, 1945

12/31/1908. D. Enrique de Orozco, Division General.

Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering, 1824 - 1889, German apothecary and industrialist pharmacy, digitally edited

PI Y MARGALL , FRANCISCO. POLITICO ESPAÑOL. BARCELONA 1824-1901. GRABADO RETRATO. ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA.

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921), was a German composer who was best known for his opera Hansel and Gretal. Date: circa 1900s

Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1807, 1882, Italian guerrilla fighter and protagonist of Italian unification or Risorgimento

Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd U.S. President, 1889-1893, Head and Shoulders Portrait, William M. Hollinger, 1900

Portrait of Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891) a German physicist and inventor. Dated 19th Century

Giuseppe VERDI, 1813-1901 Italian composer

Mikhail Mikhailovich Pokrovsky (1869-1942) by Anonymous /Russian Academy of Sciences/Photograph/Russia/Portrait

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856 - 23 September 1939); Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Martha Bernays (1861 - 1951). Portrait by Ferdinand Schmutzer 1926

CARLOS MARX (1818-1883). MARX KARL.

06/30/1920. The distinguished Painter, Don Francisco Domínguez Márquez, who has died in this court.

Edgar allan poe. 1809-1849.

Ex-Gov. Warfield

12/31/1899. Portrait of Joaquín Costa.

Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 - April 4, 1883) , American inventor. American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and politician. He designed and built the first American steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb, founded the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and served as the Greenback Party's candidate in the 1876 presidential election. Circa 1880

Portrait Of Giuseppe Verdi Created By Giovanni Boldini In 1886

King Leopold of Belgium, portrait bust

Ireland: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright, essayist, socialist and man of letters, 1914

Anefo photo collection. Gaston Bachelard (head) philosopher. July 12, 1965

Engraved portrait of Robert Browning (1812-1889), the English poet and playwright, pictured in 1887. Date: 15 January 1887

A. Carnegie

Portrait of Sir Surendranath Banerjea, who was described as the 'father' of Indian Nationalism

Eugenio Montero Ríos (13 November 1832 Santiago de Compostela 12 May 1914 Madrid) was a leading member of the Spanish Liberal Party before being part of a 1903 schism that divided it. He also served briefly as Prime Minister. He played a role in the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the SpanishAmerican War[1 as he was then President of the Senate of Spain.[2

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