Victorian Era Celebrity Portraits

Illustrations of prominent men in the 19th century, highlighting their distinguished attire and societal roles, displayed artistically.

Engraved portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), the English Astronomer Royal, pictured in 1858. Date: 20 March 1858

THE LATE MR. BRAIDWOOD, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE LONDON FIRE ENGINE ESTABLISHMENT.

Portrait of the English Scientist Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867). Illustration from Cassell's History of England, Vol VII. New Edition published Circa 1873-5.

Sir James Paget. Wood engraving after T.D. Scott, 1871.

Honorable W L Sharkey, Provisional Governor of Mississippi after the USA Civil War

JUSTUS VON LIEBIG German chemist at the time of his death Date: 1803 - 1873

Engraved portrait of Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892), the English Astronomer Royal, pictured in 1858. Date: 20 March 1858

Felix Lambrecht (1819-1871). French politician. Engraving by J. Robertson en The Illustration, Journal Universel, 1871.

BRIGHAM YOUNG, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF PROPHET OF THE MORMON CHURCH

Hartleben, Konrad Adolf .

Hobhouse, John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton .

Charles Wheatstone, 6 February 1802, 19 October 1875, a British physicist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date unknown

Mr. Westervelt, Mayor of New York. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History

Achille Fould (17. November 1800) (5. Oktober 1867) war ein französischer Finanzier und Politiker, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvor...

Historical drawing from the U.S. history of the 19th century, portrait of Henry Clay, 1777 - 1852, American politician and Foreign Minister

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1859. Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910). Wood engraving;

Portrait of James Clark

ROBERT STEPHENSON 16 October 1803 12 October 1859, was an English civil engineer. UK, britain, british, europe, united kingdom, great britain, european

Oliver Wendell Holmes. Wood engraving, 1867, after A. Sonrel.

JOHN STUART MILL philosopher Date: 1806 - 1873

Illustration showing James Braidwood (1800-1861); Scottish fire-fighter who founded of the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824.

Francisco de las Rivas y Ubieta (1808-1882). Spanish industrialist and politician. First Marquis of Mudela and senator of the kingdom. In 1879 he acquired the iron and steel factory that the English company The Cantabrian Iron Company Limited had been building in Sestao since 1871. Portrait. Drawing by Badillo. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1882. Author: Félix Badillo (1848-1895). Spanish illustrator. Arturo Carretero (ca.1852-1903). Spanish engraver.

Samuel Sarphati. Lithograph by H. Wolff.

Historic lithography from the 19th century, portrait of Francois-Joseph-Philokles Regnier de La Briere, 1807 - 1885, a French actor and dramatist

Sir AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD KUPER British naval commander, vice- admiral, commander in chief of the East India and China station. Date: 1809 - 1885

Friedrich Wilhelm Benjamin Giesebrecht, from 1865 von Giesebrecht, 5 March 1814, 18 December 1889, a German historian, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

MR. GEORGE SKIRROW BEECROFT, M.P. FOR LEEDS, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY MR

SIR WILLIAM JOLLIFFE, first baron Hylton, statesman : when secretary to the treasury. Date: 1800 - 1876

Casto Secundino Maria Mendez Nun_ez (1824-1869). Spanish military naval officer. Portrait. Engraving by P. Ross. Nuestro Siglo, 1883.

M. Scribe, 1850. Portrait of French playwright and librettist Eugène Scribe. 'One of the essential differences betwixt Shakspeare's and Scribe's plot is, that the English "Tempest" (except in a passing description) is without a tempest - a most important subject for a composer to treat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Villiers, 4. Earl of Clarendon, George William Frederick .

President Abraham Lincoln 1860. 16th President of the United States of America. Currier & Ives

Michael Faraday. Engraving by C. Cook after Beard.

Sir GEORGE ALEXANDER MACFARREN Musician, professor of music at Cambridge university. Date: 1813 - 1887

John Knox. 1801 - 1886. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. New York (State) , History

Henry John Temple, 3. Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (20. Oktober 1784) (18. Oktober 1865) war ein britischer Staatsmann, der Mitte des 19. Jah...

The late Sir John Watson Gordon, President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Arts, 1864. Engraving from a photograph of '...the eminent portrait-painter...who enjoyed a European reputation as one of the greatest of British masters in his line of art...Young Watson studied four years under John Graham in the Trustees' Academy...He early devoted himself to portrait-painting, and pursued it with unwearied diligence. During his long career he has painted many of the most distinguished Scotchmen - including Sir Walter Scott, Professor Wilson, and Dr. Chalmers...The works of Sir John Watson Gordon

Portrait of John Ruskin, English art critic

JOHN PENDER, ESQ., M.P., 1872 engraving

Charles James Mathews (1803-1878) English actor who excelled in light comedy. With his wife the English actress and singer Madame Vestris became a theatre manager. Tinted lithograph c1880.

'Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, and lecturer and leader of Trancendentalist movement. Engraving c1878.'

Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER English maturalist, director of the Royal Gardens at Kew. Date: 1785 - 1865

SANTA CRUZ, Andrés (1792-1865). Mariscal y político boliviano. Grabado de "Americanos célebres" (1888) .

Vintage Photograph. Portrait of Michael Faraday, the great English scientist.

Vintage Photograph. Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the USA, portrait, illustration

William Edmond Logan (1798-1875) Canadian geologist. Author of 'Geology of Canada' (1863). From 'Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison' by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875). Engraving.

David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish missionary and explorer who exercised a formative influence on Western attitudes toward Africa. Old 19th century engraving from Le Tour du Monde 1860

Viscount lord Palmerston (1784-1865) signed the Treaty of London, on behalf of Great Britain and Ireland.

Liebig, Justus Freiherr von.

Antonio Brusi i Ferrer (1815-1878). Journalist. Director of Barcelona journal. Engraving. Spanish and American Illustration, 1875. Spanish edition.

LORD BROUGHTON, 1869

OLMEDO, José Joaquín (1780-1847). Patriota y poeta ecuatoriano. Presidente provisional de la república tras el derrocamiento del conservador Flores (1845). Grabado de "Americanos célebres" (1888) .

Portrait of John Rennie the Younger (1794-1874) a Scottish civil engineer. Dated 19th century

C. H. Cordes, / member of the Provincial Executive of the Province of Utrecht.

Edward Smith. Lithograph by T. H. Maguire, 1852.

Johann Ignaz von Dollinger (1799-1890). German theologian and historian. Portrait. Engraving by Arturo Carretero. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1872.

Jules Ferry (Jules François Camille Ferry) (1832-1893). French statesman. Portrait. Engraving. "Historia de la Guerra de Francia y Prusia" (History of the War between France and Prussia). Volume I. Published in Barcelona, 1870.

JEFFERSON DAVIS American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy. Date: 1808 - 1889

Portrait of Ludwig Richter (1803-1884), German painter, illustration from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 647, Volume XXVI, July 21, 1855.

Castro Mendez Nunez (1824-1869). Spanish military naval officer. Portait. Engraving, 1883.

Marie François Xavier Bichat. Lithograph by N. E. Maurin.

HANS DANIEL HASSENPFLUG German statesman of Hesse, whose reactionary anti- constitutional policies earned him the nickname 'Hessenfluch' - the curse of Hesse. Date: 1794 - 1862

Joseph Barnard Davis. Lithograph by R. J. Lane.

J. C. Verhoeff

Portrait of Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe (Granada 1816 - Madrid 1894). Writer, playwright, historian, archaeologist and Spanish epigrapher, editor of Francisco de Quevedo, Spain. Old XIX century engraved illustration from La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1894

Evans, Sir George De Lacy .

Friedrich, Ritter von Lichtenfels. Lithograph by J. Kriehuber, 1839.

Portrait of G. Regnoli

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865). British statesman. He served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Portrait. Engraving.

JOHN CHARLES FREMONT American soldier and explorer Date: 1813 - 1890

Baron James Mayer de Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild (born Jakob Mayer Rothschild; 15 May 1792 - 15 November 1868) was a German-French banker and the founder of the French branch of the Rothschild family

Manuel de Pando y Fernandez de Pinedo, 6th Marquis of Miraflores, Grandee of Spain and 4th Count of la Ventosa (1792-1872). Spanish noble and politician. Portrait. Engraving by Paris in "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1872.

Portrait of David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish missionary and explorer, first European to discover the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river in central Africa. The Last Journals of David Livingstone Scottish missionary and explorer, 1866-1873. Old engraving El Mundo en la Mano 1878

Portrait of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) an English essayist. Dated 19th Century

José María de Cárdenas y Rodríguez de la Barrera (Matanzas, 1812-Guanabacoa, 1882). Escritor y periodista cubano. Su seudónimo, Jeremías de Docaransa. Dibujo por Badillo. Grabado por Arturo Carretero (1852-1903). La Ilustración Española y Americana, 15 de mayo de 1883.

William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist rebel and politician, c1848 (c1890). Creator: Unknown.

Johann Georg fisherman, 1816 to 1897, German poet and dramatist, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century orig...

Sir Morrell Mackenzie. Lithograph, 1886.

George Stephenson (1781-1848). English engineer. Fathers of Railways. Engraving, Nuestro Siglo, 1833.

Mr. S. Laing, the new Finance Minister in India - from a photograph by John Watkin, 1860. 'Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P. for the Wick Burghs, and Secretary of the Treasury...has just accepted the seat at the Indian Council in Calcutta...He was for many years a private (mathematical) tutor of the highest class in Cambridge. He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn in 1840, but does not appear at once to have practised his profession...In 1844 he published an elaborate "Report on British and Foreign Railways"...In 1848 he was made chairman and managing director of the B

Bernhard Joseph Hubert Windscheid, June 26, 1817 - October 26, 1892, a German jurist / Bernhard Joseph Hubert Windscheid, 26. Juni 1817 - 26. Oktober 1892, ein deutscher Jurist, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

David Livingstone, 19 March 1813, 1 May 1873, a Scottish missionary and African explorer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley Duke of .

William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States by T. Campbell from the original by J.H. Beard. Circa early-mid 19th century. Lithographic print.

Reichenbach, Karl Freiherr.

Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905). German Artist for drawings, etching and paintings. Portrait. Engraving by La Ilustracio_n Arti_stica, 1885.

John Tyndall (1829-1893) Irish-born British physicist. Professor at Royal Institution, London. President of British association 1874. Died of accidental chloral poisoning. Tinted lithograph published London c1880.

Karl Egon Ebert, 5 June 1801, 24 October 1882, was a German-Bohemian poet, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century, original date unknown

Portrait of Jacob Kramers, Marie Chevray, 1830 - 1891 print Portrait of Jacob Kramers. His signature is in the lower margin. Netherlands paper

Portrait of H. Jacometti. The portrait is sitting and looking right. There is a handkerchief under his right arm.

Sir Henry Holland. Wood engraving, 1873.

William Henry Aspinwall was a prominent American businessman who was a partner in the merchant firm of Howland & Aspinwall and was a co-founder of both the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Panama Canal Railway companies which revolutionized the migration of goods and people to the Western coast of the United States.

THOMAS HOOD Writer. Date: 1799 - 1845

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON President of the United States for one month: the first to die in office Date: 1773 - 1841

Portrait of Prince Milan Obrenovic of Serbia

George Bancroft, 1800 - 1891, was an American historian and statesman, America/ George Bancroft, what American historian and statesman, America, historically, digitally restored reproduction of an original model from the 19th century, exact original date unknown, subsequently colored

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) German composer: in middle age

Nicolas Philibert Adelon. Lithograph by N. E. Maurin, c. 1842.

Manuel de Llauder, 1789-1851 Marques de la Vall de Ribes

Richard Monckton Milnes, first Baron Houghton (1809-1885), English poet and Conservative politician. Friend of Tennyson, Arthur Hallam and Thackeray, and early champion of Swinburne. One of Florence Nightingale's suitors and, although she declined to marry him, he was one of her constant supporters in her work. From 'The Modern Portrait Gallery' (London, c1880). Tinted lithograph.

Portrait of John Phillips (1800-1874) an English geologist. Dated 19th century

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