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Historical Portraits of Notable Figures

Engravings and photographs depicting prominent historical figures, including politicians and scientists, in classic attire from the 19th century.

Richard Cobden (1804-65), English Manufacturer and Liberal Statesman, Three-Quarter Length Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wil

Richard Cobden (1804-65), English Manufacturer and Liberal Statesman, Three-Quarter Length Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wil

MICHAEL FARADAY English scientist Date: 1791 - 1867

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK English novelist and poet at the age of 72 Date: 1785 - 1866

THE LATE CHARLES KNIGHT, 1873

Kerr. Photograph by G.W. Wilson.

William Lovett (1800-77); leading English artisan and chartist. Author of Chartism: A New Organisation of the People, London, 1841

George Miffin Dallas,1792-1864.Minister of the United States at the Court of St. James's. Vice-president of America 1845-49.Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Published in London 1859.

Justus von Liebig. Photograph by F. Hanfstaengl.

This 1899 illustration shows: Ralph Waldo Emerson - photo from life. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet. He led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century. Among his best known essays are "Nature" and "Self-Reliance." He was a friend of Henry David Thoreau. His home was in Concord, Massachusetts. For two years he lived in a cabin in Concord by what is known today as Walden Pond.

Sir William James Erasmus Wilson. Photograph by Ernest Edwards, 1868.

HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, viscount PALMERSTON statesman, at age 76 Date: 1784 - 1865

Sir William Shee, 1804-1868, first Catholic Judge in Ireland since the revolution of 1690.Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by ayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

James William Gilbart, 1794-1863. English banker and writer on banking.Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Williams. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Sir David Brewster. Engraving by D. J. Pound, 1861, after J. Watkins.

Blochmann, Rudolf Sigismund

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian, poet and Whig politician, born at Leicester. Author of 'History of England from the accession of James II' (1848) and 'Lays of Ancient Rome' (1842). Engraving c1870.

Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873), Italian writer and poet, engraving

Sir William James Erasmus Wilson. Lithograph.

George Miffin Dallas, 1792-1864, Minister of the United States at the Court of St James. Vice President of America 1845-49. engraving by DJ Pound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages, published in London 1859, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

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John Arthur Roebuck (1801-79) English Lawyer and politician. Chairman of the Sebastapol Committee of enquiry into conduct of Crimean War. Engraving c1880.

Portrait of Italian politician, philosopher and writer, Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere, lithograph

William Ewart Gladstone,1809-1898. English Chancellor of the Exchequer, statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94).Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Mayall. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Michael Faraday. Photograph by W. Walker & Sons.

CHARLES KNIGHT London publisher of popular books and magazines, including his 'London'. Date: 1791 - 1873

Karl August von Hase, 1800-1890, a German Protestant theologian and church historian, historical illustration, 1880, Germany, Europe

Thomas Wright,1810-1877. English antiquarian and writer.Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by Maull and Polyblank. From the book ""The Drawing-Room Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages"" Volume 2. Published in London 1859.

Baron Isidore Justin Severin Taylor, royal commissioner of the Theatre-Francais, 1865. Artist: Unknown

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792-1871), English Polymath who Invented the Blue Print, Three-Quarter Length Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Publi

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), American Statesman, 7th Vice President of the United States 1825-32 and U.S. Senator from South Carolina 1845-50, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Du

Alexander von Humboldt Baron 1769 to 1859 German naturalist and explorer

Portrait of William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) Unitarian preacher. Dated 19th Century

Horace Greeley (1811-1872) Political Leader and Newspaper Editor Stock Montage, Inc.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English Physicist and Chemist whose Experiments Contributed greatly to the Understanding of Electromagnetism, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Eve

Sir Charles Lyell. Photograph by John Watkins.

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, 4 January 1785, 20 September 1863, was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist, digitally restored reproduction of a 19t...

Avraam Ivanovich Melnikov (1784-1854), Khudyakov, Vasili Grigorievich (1826-1871)

'Edward George Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1899-1869) English Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1852, 1858-1859, 1866-1868.'

HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, viscount PALMERSTON statesman, prime minister with his autograph Date: 1784-1865

Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872) English churchman. Bishop of St Asaph. Friend of John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey, members of the Oxford Movement (Tractarians). Engraving from The Illustrated News of the World (London, c1860).

William Powell Frith, Royal Academician, 1880.Artist: Lock & Whitfield

Henry Fawcett (1833-1884), English politician and economist, born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Postmaster-general (1880-1884), he introduced the parcel post in 1882. Blinded in a shooting accident in 1858. From 'The National Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880).

Engraved portrait of John Bright (1811-1889), the English orator and radical politician.

Photographic portrait of Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871) a British Tory politician and he also served as Governor-General of India. Dated 19th Century

Thomas Vowler Short (1790-1872) English churchman. Bishop of St Asaph. Friend of John Keble and Edward Bouverie Pusey, members of the Oxford Movement (Tractarians). Engraving from 'The Illustrated News of the World' (London, c1860). Religion. Christian. Anglican.

Sir John Frederick William Herschel. Stipple engraving.

Rt. Hon. H.H. Asquith

Portrait Karl August Hänsel (1799-1882 / 1883; Violoncellist, Composer)

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, 1792, 1878, British Prime Minister under Queen Victoria and liberal reformer

Sir Tatton Sykes,1772-1863. English baronet and gentleman.Engraved by D.J.Pound from a photograph by J.Eastham. From the book ""The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages"" Volume 1. Published in London 1860

Henry Clay 1777 to 1852. American politician. From painting by Alonzo Chappel

Joseph Lister, (1827-1912), British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic surgery. Ca. 1890.

HENRY WALTER BATES Naturalist Date: 1825 - 1892

Richard Cobden, 1804 - 1865, an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman

Charles Murchison. Photograph after Ernest Edwards.

John Wilson of Ellerey (18 May 1785) (3 April 1854) was a Scottish advocate, literary critic and author, the writer most frequently identified with the pseudonym Christopher North of Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine. He was professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University (1820-51)

William Popham ca. 1845 George Linen. William Popham 11433

Henry John Temple Palmerston of Palmerston 3rd Viscount Baron Temple of Mount Temple byname PAM 1784 to1865 English Whig-Liberal statesman From The History of the Indian Mutiny published 1858

James Buchanan (1791-1868), Fifteenth President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Daguerreotype, Mathew Brady, 1850's

Engraved portrait of Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), the Scottish physicist and inventor of the stereoscope. Date: no date - original print

Portrait of W.E. Gladstone, the English Liberal statesman, who was four times Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Portrait of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) by Tournachon, Gaspard-Felix (1820-1910)/Private Collection/ca 1863/Photograph/France/Portrait

Engraving of Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, the English Statesman, published shortly after his death. Date: 1865

Self-portrait of Eduard Isaac Asser.

Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), French Statesman, Journalist and Historian, Second Elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and Ame

Michael Faraday, 1791 - 1867, an English scientist

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE British statesman. Date: 1809 - 1898

JOHN RUSKIN English art critic and writer Date: 1819 - 1900

John Bright (1811-1889). British politician, member of the Liberal Party. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1876.

New York, New York: c. 1855 A half plate daguerreotype portrait of businessman, financier and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt,

Sir William James Erasmus Wilson. Photograph by Ernest Edwards.

François Vincent Raspail. Lithograph by H. Mailly, 1869.

Portrait of Cesare Cantu (1804-1895), Italian historian, scholar and politician, founder of the Lombard Historical Archive and parlamentary deputy of the Kingdom of Italy. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) American teacher and trancendentalist. Father of Louisa May Alcott. Wood engraving, 1875

Francois Clement Sauvage, French engineer and politician, 1854. Artist: Unknown

Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by W. & D. Downey.

Portrait of Litolff Henri, (1818-1891), (pianist, composer) Portrait of Henri Litolff (1818-1891), Pianist, Composer. 1860-1890. Business card (front). Draw on albuminum paper. Photograph of Charles Reutlinger (1816-1880).

Steel engraving, ca. 1860, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1778, 1868, British writer, lawyer, scientist, Reform Act 1832, Slavery Abolition Act 1833

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), British Philosopher, Political Economist and Civil Servant, Portrait, 1870

An engraving depicting Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810-1890) an Indian Army officer. Dated 19th century

Sir William Scovell Savory, 1st Baronet (30 November 1826 4 March 1895) was a British surgeon.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784-1860, English Tory Peelite politician. Painted by DJPound after a photograph by Mayall. From the book The Drawing-Room of Eminent Personages, Volume 2, published in London 1860, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

Photographic portrait of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th President of the United States. Dated 19th Century

'Dr. Dollinger', c1890. Artist: Unknown.

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

Portrait of Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) a German-born British astronomer, composer, and brother of Caroline Herschel. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863) a British Army officer. Dated 19th century

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Portrait of Cesare Cantu (1804-1895), Italian historian, scholar and politician, founder of the Lombard Historical Archive and parlamentary deputy of the Kingdom of Italy. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German Naturalist and Explorer and Major Figure in the Classical Period of Physical Geography and Biogeography, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert

Portrait of Ary Scheffer, (1795-1858), Painter Portrait of Ary Scheffer, (1795-1858), painter. Business card (front). Anonymous photography. Draw on albuminum paper, 1860-1890.

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet. Nadar Gaspard Félix Tournachon (French, 1820 - 1910)

sir WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL journalist, 'Times' correspondent in the Crimea and elsewhere. Date: 1820 - 1907

Edwin Booth (1833-93), American Actor, Seated Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company, New York, 1873

Sir Henry Duncan Littlejohn. Photograph.

HECTOR BERLIOZ the French composer in middle age Date: 1803 -1869

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, 1792 -1871, English polymath

Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891) English social reformer and radical politician. Elected Member of Parliament for Northampton in 1888. Bradlaugh aged 57. Engraving.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), American Poet and Educator, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Company

John Bright. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

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