Historical Portraits in Study Settings

A collection of vintage portraits showing men in formal attire, seated in studies or offices, surrounded by books and decor typical of the late 19th to early 20th century.

GEORGES CLEMENCEAU French statesman, photographed at his fireside in 1886 Date: 1841 - 1929

GEORGES CLEMENCEAU French statesman, photographed at his fireside in 1886 Date: 1841 - 1929

1890 (Ca.). General Arsenio Martínez Campos.

McKinley, Pres. Wm., made at the White House, Monday, Nov. 27, 1900

07/10/1911. Apeles Mestres author of the beautiful Poem "Liliana" Premiered last night in Barcelona.

Luigi pirandello. 1920-30

Portrait of Henri Meilhac, dramatic author (Paris, 1831 - Paris, 1897). Portrait of Henri Meilhac, dramatic author (Paris, 1831 - Paris, 1897). Photograph of Paul Cardon (said Dornac or Paul Marsan). Albuminum drawing, between 1885 and 1895.

President Paul Von Hindenburg (1847 - 2 August 1934) Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934.

Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson, full-length Portrait Shaking Hands after being nominated as Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates for the Progressive or Bull-Moose Party, 1912

Photograph of Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945) a Norwegian military officer and politician. Dated 20th century

Pio Baroja Nessi around 1940.

GUGLIELMO MARCONI the Italian inventor with communications apparatus Date: 1874 - 1937

Enrico Fermi.

Composers Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoly Lyadov, Anonymous

Count Okuma & Baron Ishii

Benoit-Constant Coquelin, French actor, 1895. Artist: Unknown

Albert einstein and leopold infeld, princeton

'L'Heure de la Roumanie; M Aristide Briand (a droite) et M Alexandre Lahovary, ministre de Roumanie a Paris', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916".

Former Prime Minister Prime Winston Churchill, at his desk in Werterham, Kent. April 1948. - (BSLOC_2014_17_51)

Black and white photograph of Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), Italian orchestra conductor.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the United States 1901-09, Seated Portrait at Desk, Photograph by Barnett McFee Clinedinst, 1904

The Honorable Grover Cleveland in Princeton, N.J.. George Collins Cox (American, 1851 - 1902)

ALVAREZ DEL QUINTERO , SERAFIN Y JOAQUIN. COMEDIOGRAFOS ESPAÑOLES. SEVILLA 1871-1938//1873-1944. REPRODUCCION FOTO ALFONSO.

12/17/1918. The new French ambassador in Spain. M. Alapetite Diplomatic representative of the French Republic, who arrived yesterday in Madrid.

THOMAS ALVA EDISON in FILM HISTORY: EARLY PE.

Raoul Pugno, French musician and composer, 1905. Artist: Unknown

Photograph of William Howard Taft (1857-1930) 27th President of the United States and later Chief Justice of the United States. Dated 20th Century

Portrait of Oscar II (1829-1907), King of Sweden and Norway, photograph by Underwood and Underwood, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXXIV, No 50, December 15, 1907.

U.S. President Warren G. Harding and Former President William Howard Taft at the White House, following the death of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, Harding nominated Taft to be Chief Justice, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1921

Louis L. Klotz, Minister of Finance

Gen. Shelley, Auditor Navy, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seated at desk,facing left | Library of Congress

Edward VII (1841-1910) raising his hat during a visit to Paris, in 1903. Known as the 'Uncle of Europe' and with sophisticated diplomatic skills (including fluent spoken French), the King was instrumental in laying the foundations for the Entente Cordiale, the historic agreement between Britain and France, signed in 1904. Date: 1910

King George V (1865 - 1936), seated at the microphone in a room at Sandringham from where he broadcast a Christmas message to the British Empire. Date: 1934

Paul Hervieu and Marcel Prevost, French authors and dramatists, 1905. Artist: Unknown

WOODROW WILSON American president, caught in happy mood Date: 1856 - 1924

1925 (Ca.). Portrait of Joaquín Xaudaró.

The author Ivan S. Turgenev (1818-1883) at Malytin in Baden-Baden by Photo studio K. Werzinger, Baden-Baden /Institut of Russian Literature IRLI (Pushkin-House)/1867/Photograph/Russia/Portrait,Genre

Black and white photo of Edvard Benes (1884-1948), twice president of Czechoslovakia and President of the Czechoslovakia Government in exile during World War II.

12/31/1899. The politician and academic Francisco Silvela and Le Vielleuze.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 -1924), known by his alias Lenin, Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.

Maxim Gorky and French writer Romain Rolland, Anonymous

U.N. President Addresses Press Club -- Austtralia's Doctor Herbert V. Evatt, President of the United Nations General Assembly, pictured as he addressed the Anglo-American Press Club at the Club Des Blindes in Paris, September 29. October 17, 1950. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Ion Ghica (1816-1897). Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and politician. He was Prime Minister of Romania five times. Portrait. Engraving.

HERMANOS ALVAREZ QUINTERO (JOAQUIN Y SERAFIN) - DRAMATURGOS ESPAÑOLES - S XIX.

Elderly Rebecca L. Fenton (1835-1930), U.S. Senator, as a result of a complex political maneuver of Georgia state politics. She became the first U.S. women Senator for one day, November 18, 1922. She was a leader of Georgia women suffrage movement, but also a racist white supremacist and former slave holder.

ENRIC PRAT DE LA RIBA I SARRA, POLITICO Y ESCRITOR CATALAN, PRESIDIO LA DIPUTACION PROVINCIAL DE BARCELONA, PRIMER PRESIDENTE MANCOMUNIDAD, 1907.

11/30/1908. Don Rafael Picavea, winner of the Gran Via auction.

Archbishop Leaves For Royal Christening -- Doctor Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury leaving Lamboth Palace (his London residence) for Buckingham Palace, where he officiated at the Christening ceremony of the infant son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.The baby Princes was christening Charles Philip Arthur George, and he will be Known as Prince Charles of Edinburgh. December 15, 1948.

Theodore Roosevelt with his Campaign Manager Joseph M. Dixon during Presidential Election, Bain News Service, 1912

12/31/1905. Prince Louis II of Monaco in his office.

Minister of Interior, Antonio Jose d'Almeida and President of the Republic Manuel de Arriaga, Portugal, photo from L'Illustration, No 3575, September 2, 1911.

President Warren Harding (1865-1923) with his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge and Postmaster General Will Hayes.

01/31/1912. The conservative deputy Don Juan de la Cierva.

09/30/1919. The King of Spain in Paris. SMD Alfonso.

Umberto I (1844-1900), King of Italy, on the Alps, photograph by F Genovesio, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XXVII, No 52, December 30, 1900.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt with his Cabinet Members in Cabinet, Washington, D.C., USA, Photograph by George Prince, May 11, 1907

James Jerome Hill (1838-1916), President of Great Northern Railway, Full-Length Portrait with Louis W. Hill, Harris & Ewing, 1912

HENRY FORD - American automobile manufacturer. Seen here with Thomas Edison in 1921. Date: 1863 - 1947

The Italian politician Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) in his villa in Cavour, Piedmont, Italy, from L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIX, No 44, October 29, 1922.

12/31/1919. Antonio Flores de Lemus.

John Bigelow

Elihu Root served as Secretary of War from 18991904, under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. He established US policies for colonial governments of the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico (BSLOC_2017_8_84)

Portrait of Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907), French chemist, historian and politician, with his wife Sophie Berthelot Niaudet (1837-1907), photograph from L'Illustration, No 3343, March 23, 1907.

United States Senator Harry Stewart New of Indian and Postmaster General ca. 1920s-1930s

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt Speaking to Reporters, Photograph by American Press Association, September 10, 1910

Photographic portrait of Octave Feuillet (1821-1890) a French novelist and dramatist. Dated 19th Century

ARTURO TOSCANINI Italian conductor, known for his dynamic style (left), with Siegfried Wagner at Bayreuth Date: 1867 - 1957

M.E. Chevreul. Photograph by Nadar.

Vladimir Lenin in Gorki. 1922, October 2. Photographer - Ulyanova M. I. Gorki.

James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), Scottish Labour leader and politician with Jean Jaures of the French Socialist Part (left).

10/31/1909. The famous Norwegian author Bjornstjerne Bjornson (X), who is currently in Paris seriously ill, with his wife and his son Bjon, director of the national theater of his country.

Italy, Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, 1900

Theodore Roosevelt, half-length portrait, facing right holding hat over heart, Saluting while passing through line of Norwegian Battleships, on Board Queen Maud, during Visit to Norway, American Press Association, May 1910

Elsevier photo collection. Opera "Meistersinger von Nürnberg" Wagner. Wilhelm red (Hans Sachs) conductor Artur Rother (right). 1940-1945}

Julian Ashton - Archibald Prize *****. June 13, 1930.

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President of the United States, and Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), American engineer, businessman and politician, at Brule, Wisconsin, United States of America, photograph from The Tatler, No 1415, August 8, 1928, London.

05/26/1929. Barcelona, at the Ferrán institute. HM the King D. Alfonso.

'Portrait of the Late Mr. Gleeson White', c1898. Artist: Frederick Hollyer.

LON CHANEY JR. in SON OF DRACULA (1943), directed by ROBERT SIODMAK.

Draw of the Davis Cup. Gaston Doumergue, President of the Republic, draws the first newsletter, Palace of the Elysee, 55 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 8th arrondissement, Paris, 4 February 1931. Draw of the Davis Cup. Gaston Doumergue, President of the Republic draws the first newsletter, Palace of the Elysée, Paris (VIIIth Arr.) ". Photograph of Georges Devred for the agency Rol, 4 February 1931.

Sigmund Freud, Stanley Hall, Carl Gustav Jung, Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi in front of Clark University, Anonymous

JACINTO BENAVENTE - NOBEL DE LITERATURA - GENERACION 98 - 1922. BENAVENTE Y MARTINEZ JACINTO.

PAUL DEROULEDE - French statesman, banished for plotting against the state, photographed at San Sebastian (Spain) visited by the eminent actor Mounet-Sully in 1899. Date: 1846 - 1914

THOMAS ALVA EDISON With HENRY FORD. Date: 1847 - 1931

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Photographic print of former Prime Minister of Canada, R. B. Bennett (1870-1947) talking to former Prime Minister of Britain, Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937). Dated 20th Century

General' William Booth (1829-1912) Evangelical social worker, founder of the Salvation Army, photographed in the meeting room of the Army's headquarters in Queen Victoria Street, London. 1903.

Portret Van Ernest Renan, Anonymous, 1890 photograph This photo is part of an album. France paper writer, poet, author France

04/13/1906. Portrait of Professor Matteucci.

08/31/1915. A distinguished prelate. The North American Cardinal James Gibbons, who has made important efforts in favor of European Peace.

Portrait of the theatre director Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) by Russian Photographer /Russian State Film and Photo Archive, Krasnogorsk/1910s/Silver Gelatin Photography/Russia/Opera, Ballet, Theatre,Portrait

Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt with former U.S. Senator from Indiana Albert Beveridge during U.S. Presidential Election Campaign under the new Progressive Party, Unidentified Artist, 1912

Foreign Royalty - Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm - Germany. October 31, 1932.

Austria, Vienna, portrait of German composer, pianist and conductor, Johannes Brahms in home

01/31/1912. The minister of public instruction in Zaragoza. Presidency of the University banquet. 1.- the Minister. 2.- Mr. Jiménez Soler (rector of the University of Zaragoza). 3.- Puente (Governor) Armiñán, 4.-Dr. Arpal. 5.- Mr. Ballarín, Mayor. 6.- Dr. Iranzo. Photo: fat.

12/31/1929. An image of George Bernard Shaw.

12/31/1905. Italian playwright Giusseppe Giaccosa.

Pau Casals Defilló (El Vendrell, 1876-San Juan de Puerto Rico, 1973). Compositor, director de orquesta y violoncelista, recibiendo la Medalla de la ciudad de Barcelona y el nombramiento como Hijo predilecto, en el Saló de Cent de l'Ajuntament, en 1934.

Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, pictured knitting c.1890. Date: c.1890

`Before the opening of the Sejm` Józef Piłsudski and Ignacy Jan Paderewski en route to the grand opening event of the Legislative Sejm of the Republic of Poland on February 9th, 1919. unknown, publisher

Madrid, 07/04/1906. The Marquis de la Vega de Armijo leaves the Royal Palace after speaking with the King about the political issue.

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