Thomas Duncan', 1840s. Portrait of Scottish artist Thomas Duncan . Engraving after a photograph. Artist J Smyth.
Portrait of a man, 1872. From A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt .
Portrait of a man, 1872. From A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt .
Edward Hodges Baily , British sculptor, 19th century. Baily's best-known works are also his least accessible: the statues at the top of Nelson's...
William Powell Frith , English painter, 19th century. Powell specialised in portraits and Victorian era narratives, and was elected to the Royal...
John Julius Angerstein , English philanthropist, merchant, picture collector and Lloyds underwriter . A prominent patron of the arts, his picture...
Francis Wrangham , British classical scholar, 1829. Wrangham was Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
William Hyde Wollaston , English physiologist, chemist and physicist, . Wollaston discovered two chemical elements and developed a method of...
'Elizabeth, Marchioness of Stafford', 1829. Possibly a portrait of Elizabeth Sutherland-Gower, Marchioness of Stafford .
Mark Firth, British industrialist and philanthropist, c1880. Firth's steelworks in Sheffield produced armaments. A print from Great Industries of...
Sir Edward James Harland, British shipbuilder, c1880. In 1855, Harland went to Belfast as manager of the then small shipyard. He went on to build the...
Joseph Whitworth, British engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, c1880. Whitworth produced the standard screw thread which bears his name and invented...
Sir John Brown, British industrialist, c1880. Portrait of Brown , a print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell...
Sir Josiah Mason, English pen-manufacturer, c1880. Portrait of Mason , a print from Great Industries of Great Britain, Volume I, published by Cassell...
Sir Titus Salt, British manufacturer and benefactor, c1880. Salt discovered a method of blending alpaca wool with cotton and silk. He is best...
Sir Henry Bessemer, English engineer, c1880. Portrait of Bessemer , inventor of the Bessemer process for the mass production of steel. A print from...
Sir Thomas Bazley, 1st Baronet, British manufacturer and politician, c1880. Portrait of Bazley , a print from Great Industries of Great Britain,...
Portrait and autograph of Major John Andre, 18th century British soldier and spy, c1880. Andre assisted Benedict Arnold, the American general and...
George, Prince of Denmark. Portrait of Prince George was the Prince consort of Queen Anne of Great Britain.英國
'The Garden at Bellevue', 1880. Plate taken from Manet, text by Hermann Jedding, published by The Hyperion Press .
Portrait of Irma Brunner', 1882. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France. Plate taken from Manet, text by Hermann Jedding, published by...
Samuel Plimsoll, British politician and social reformer, c1880. Known popularly as 'the sailor's friend' because of his championing of sailors'...
Queen Mary I of England. Mary Tudor was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 1553 until her death. Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of...
Charles I of England. Portrait of King Charles I , who succeeded his father James I as King in 1625. His reign was dominated by a bitter dispute with...
Oliver Cromwell's signature, . Two signatures by Cromwell , English military leader and politician, the 'Lord Protector'; one dated 19 October 1651,...
William Lamb , 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1836. Lamb was a British Whig statesman who served as home secretary between 1830 and 1834, and as prime...
Francis Rawdon-Hastings , Governor-General of India, . Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, was Governor-General of India from 1813 to 1823.
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, scientist and inventor, c1900. Swan invented the incandescent electric lamp in Britain at about the same time as Thomas...
Signature of Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer and critic, 19th century. Barbey d'Aurevilly's novels and stories, set in his native...