Sir William Chambers, British architect, artist, and author, c1760s. Artist: Francis Cotes
Sir William Chambers, architect, artist, and author, c1760s. Portrait of Chambers (1723-1796) who was born in Sweden. Illustration from Story of the British Nation, Volume III, Walter Hutchinson
Richard Norman Shaw, RA, British architect, 1883. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Richard Norman Shaw, RA, British architect, 1883. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, politician, writer, architectural innovator, 1910
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, politician, writer and architectural innovator, 18th century (1910). A print of Walpole (1717-1797) from The Connoisseur, (London, 1910)
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, and Joseph Paxton, 1851. Artist: John Tenniel
Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, and Joseph Paxton, 1851. Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, handing Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace, a £ 20