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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

John Bright. Photograph by Elliott & Fry.

Portrait of Daniel Auber (1782-1871) a French composer. Dated 19th Century

Earl of Derby (29 March 1799 23 October 1869) English statesman; three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.

Charles Sumner, returned to the Senate in 1859, after 3 years absence after his caning by Preston Brooks. In March 1861, when Southern Senators withdrew from Congress, Sumner became chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Photo by Julian Vannerson (BSLOC_2018_5_161)

Henry Wolf, Sir Henry Irving, 1912, wood engraving on china paper.

Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869), compositor, escritor y crítico francés. Grabado de 1865.

Ernest Renan

Portrait of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Anonymous

Sir Richard Owen. Photograph by H.J. Whitlock.

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) as an old man seated in his study. British Liberal statesman. Oleograph published c1890

Portrait of Franciszek Liszt; PUC, Bronis AW (FL. 1867-1891);

Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2. Marquis of Northampton. Collection of Juhl

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of Johann Joseph Ignaz Ritter von Doellinger, 1799 - 1890, a Catholic theologian and church historian

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), British Liberal Statesman, c1890. Artist: Unknown

Jacob Aall or Aal 1773-1844 Norwegian writer and politician From the book Eidsvoll 1814 published 1914

NIN I TUDO, Josep (1890-1908). Portrait of Pascual Madoz. 1873. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Congress Palace.

Portrait of Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm or Carl Grimm, 1785 - 1863, German literary scholar and jurist

Lord Asquith (1852-1928), Earl of Oxford, British Liberal Statesman, 1925-1928.. Artist: Unknown

Johannes Brahms, German composer and musician, as a young man. Date: 1833 - 1897

JOHN BRIGHT radical statesman Date: 1811 - 1889

Gyula () Döllinger. Photograph.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Hungarian pianist and composer in later life. Photogravure after a photograph by W & D Downey, London.

Portrait of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Franz Hanfstaengl, 1858

DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852) - POLITICO ESTADOUNIDENSE.

Alexander von HUMBOLDT - 1769 - 1859

Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist. Engraving by La Ilustracion Artistica. 1886. Colored.

ALESSANDRO GAVAZZI Italian churchman and patriot. Date: 1809 - 1889

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY English scientist and champion of Darwin's Theory of Evolution Date: 1825-1895

ALFRED MARSHALL- 1842/1924 - ECONOMISTA BRITANICO.

1770s ILLUSTRATION FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SITTING IN CHAIR LOOKING AT CAMERA

'James Martineau (1805-1900) English religious philosopher, Professor of Mental and Moral and Philospphy and Political Economy at Manchester New College, main training place for Unitarianism in England. Tinted lithograph c1880.'

Theodor Mommsen, 1903.

CHARLES SUMNER, by William Morris Hunt, 1875, American painting, oil on canvas. Sumner was an abolitionist and Radical Republican who represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1851 to 1874 (BSLOC_2019_5_159)

Thomas Chalmers, 1780 - 1847, a Scottish minister, professor of theology

Louis-Francois Bertin (1766-1841). French writer and journalist. Portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), 1832. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

ANTON BRUCKNER Austrian musician Date: 1824 - 1896

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

Richard Wagner (1813-1883). German composer. Portrait. Photography.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (* 14 September 1769 in Berlin) ( 6 May 1859 ibid.) was a German explorer with a sphere of activity extending far beyond Europe, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

John Tyndall. Wood engraving by C. Roberts.

ANTON BRUCKNER Austrian musician

Historic chromolithography from the 19th century, portrait of James Martineau, 1805 - 1900, an English philosopher and theologian of unitarianism

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (* 14 September 1769 in Berlin; 6 May 1859 ibid) was a German explorer with a field of activity extending far beyond Europe. Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original. .

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

Portrait of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885) an English politician, philanthropist, and social reformer. Dated 19th Century

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 1860) German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844),

Steel engraving, ca. 1860, Field Marshal Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, 1792, 1863, British Army officer

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) German composer, c1866. Halftone from a photograph.

JAMES MCCOSH Scottish-American philosopher, president of Princeton. Date: 1811 - 1894

Robert Toombs, ca. 1850s. Mathhew Brady Studio

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English naturalist and traveller; friend of Alfred Russell Wallace with whom he explored the Amazon 1848-59. Mimicry; Polymorphism. Wood engraving New York, 1892

'Rt. Hon. Frederick Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford', c1860, (c1884). Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (1794-1878), British jurist and Conservative politician, entered Gray's Inn in 1813, Attorney-General and twice Lord High Chancellor during the reign of Queen Victoria. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. II.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin

Historical illustration from the 19th Century, portrait of Karl Friedrich von Gerok, 1815 - 1890, a German theologian and poet

Johannes Brahms, (1833-1897), German Composer, c.1866. Halftone from a photograph

John James Robert Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland (1818-1906), English Conservative politician. Known as Lord John Manners until 1888 when he succeeded his brother as Duke of Rutland. Accompanied Disraeli in 1844 on a tour of the industrial districts of Lancashire and is mentioned in Disraeli's novels 'Coningsby' (1844) and 'Sybil' (1845). Engraving, c1870.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (1819 1903), was a physicist and mathematician. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903

Herbert Spencer. Photograph, 1889.

John Murray Forbes (1813 - 1898) was born in Bordeaux, France. His parents were Ralph Bennett Forbes and wife Margaret Perkins, niece of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, founder of a Boston Brahmin family merchant dynasty involved in the China trade. The Forbes family settled in Milton, Massachusetts, where his father was an energetic but unsuccessful businessman who died when John was only six. Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, then at Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1823-28. He was one of three brothers sent by their uncle to Canton (now Guangzhou), China, and achieved some financial success during a short time spent trading in Canton. However, unlike his brother Robert Bennet Forbes who devoted himself to the China trade, Forbes returned to Boston and became an early railroad investor and landowner. Although Forbes' is best known as a railroad magnate, much of his fortune was based in the opium trade to China. It is said that his opi

Photographic portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the English Statesman and Novelist. Date: 1800

Sir John Herschel with Cap by Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 26 January 1879) British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities. Sir John Herschel was an English astronomer, mathematician and scientist.

Martin, Charles (n.1848 - D.1934), Portrait of Michelet. (Dummy title). Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

JOHN EDMOND Scottish churchman and writer Date: 1818 -

Sir Henry Irving

Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885). French zoologist. Portrait. Engraving by H. Thirial. Ilustracio_n Artistica, 1885.

American Horticulturalist Luther Burbank

ANDERSEN, Hans Christian (1805-1875). Danish poet and novelist, author of famous fairy tales.

Photographic portrait of Edward Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester between 1873 and 1891, pictured c.1876. Date: 1876

Dr. John Wakefield Francis Charles Robert Leslie British. Dr. John Wakefield Francis 13401

Francis II and I, 1768 - 1835. First Emperor of Austria and last Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia. After the painting by Friedrich von Amerling.

JOHANN STRAUSS (YOUNGER) Austrian musician towards the end of his life Date: 1825 - 1899

'Henry W. Acland, Esq. .D. F.R.S. &c', 1850s. Creator: Daniel John Pound.

Portrait of Richard Wagner 1813 - 1883, German composer, playwright, philosopher, poet, writer

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