Bald Collection (page 8)

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century
William Henry Bragg, English physicist, 20th century. The founder of X-ray crystallography, Bragg (1862-1942) is shown here using an X-ray spectrometer

Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, 1860
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician. Hahnemann (1755-1843) founded the branch of medicine known as homeopathy in c1798. Engraving after a commemorative medal

Ignaz Philip Semmelweis (1818-1865), Hungarian obstetrician, 19th century

Chinese Acupuncture Chart

The Chinese Star-god of Longevity. Shou-lao. Shou Lao is the three Daoist Gods of Fu (Good fortune) Lu (Prosperity) Shou (Longevity), who usually has a very prominent forehead

Ming Dynasty stoneware figure of Budah, 15th century
Ming Dynasty stoneware figure of Budai, the smiling monk and future Buddha. Ming Dynasty, from the reign of Changhua. Glazed with green and ochre, 15th century

Etruscan terracotta figure of a comic actor, 2nd century BC
Etruscan terracotta figure of a comic actor from Vulci, Italy, from the British Museums collection, 2nd century BC

Self-Portrait, 1880-1881. Artist: Paul Cezanne
Self-Portrait, 1880-1881. Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Bust of Pupienus Maximus, 2nd century
Bust of the Roman emperor Pupienus (165/70-238), who ruled in the year of the six emperors. From the Louvres collection, 2nd century

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, reading Pravda, 1918. Lenin (1870-1924) became leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic

Nicolas Francois Appert (1749-1841), French chef and inventor, c1870. Appert devised a method of preserving food, first in glass bottles that had been sealed with wax and immersed in boiling water

Edward Armitage, British painter and professor and lecturer to the Royal Academy, 1877. A historical painter, Armitage was influential in the movements for the restoration of fresco painting in

William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1609. Portrait in oils dated 1609. This is the portrait engraved by Droeshout for the First Folio edition of his plays published in 1623

William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1623. Artist: Martin Droeshout
William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1623. Title page from the First Folio edition of Shakespeares (1564-1616) plays, published in 1623

Rudolph Virchow, German pathologist, 1902. Virchow (1829-1902) specialised in cellular pathology. He was also a Liberal member of the Reichstag and an opponent of Bismarck

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874
Charles Darwin (1809-82) English naturalist. Cartoon, depicting Darwins head superimposed on an apes body, showing another ape its reflection in a mirror

Hippocrates of Cos, Ancient Greek physician. Hippocrates (c460-377 BC) is known as the father of medicine. Portrait bust, from the Louvre, Paris

George von Bekesy (1899-1972), Hungarian-born American physiologist. He won the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1961 for his pioneering research into the function of the inner ear

Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), British writer and caricaturist, 1901. Artist: Laurence Houseman
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), British writer and caricaturist, 1901. Beerbohm succeeded George Bernard Shaw as theatre critic of The Saturday Review in 1898

(Alexandre) Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891), French physicist. The son of the physicist Antoine Cesar Becquerel and father of (Antoine) Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity

(Antoine) Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist. In 1896 Becquerel accidentally discovered radioactivity while investigating the phosphorescence of uranium salts

Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899), c1880. A famous sportsman, Somerset was editor of the Badminton Library series of books on sporting subjects

Oswald Theodore Avery, Canadian-born American bacteriologist and molecular biologist. Pictured at work in a laboratory examining a Petri dish of culture

Clement Atlee (1883-1967) British Labour statesman, 1932
Clement Atlee (1883-1967), British Labour statesman, 1932. Labour MP for Limehouse from 1922, Attlee became leader of the Labour Party in 1935

Joseph Prudhomme, c1825-1877. Artist: Henry Bonaventure Monnier
Joseph Prudhomme, c1825-1877

Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1893) English poet, c1880
Alfred Tennyson, lst Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet, c1880. Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850

Alexander I (1777-1825), Tsar of Russia from 1801, in military uniform. Alexander ascended to the throne after the murder of his father, Paul I

Alexandre Agassiz, Swiss-born American oceanographer, marine zoologist and mining engineer, 1883. Alexandre Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz (1835-1910)

Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Artist: Spy
Henry Bessemer, British engineer, inventor and industrialist, 1880. Bessemer (1813-1898) was a prolific inventor, but is best known for discovering the Bessemer Process for manufacturing steel

Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, at home, 1903. Artist: W&D Downey
Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, at home, 1903. After a series of comedies, in 1893 with The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Pinero (1855-1934) began a series of realistic tragedies. From The Tatler

Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist, c1890. After a series of comedies, in 1893 with The Second Mrs Tanqueray, Pinero (1855-1934) began a series of realistic tragedies

Piet Cronje, Boer leader and soldier, c1900. Cronje (1835-1911) fought against the British in the 1st Boer War and defeated the Jameson raiders at Krugersdorp, on 29 December 1895

Joseph Bazalgette (1819-1891), English civil engineer, 1887. Bazalgettes major achievements were in the field of public health engineering

Jean Augustin Barral (1819-1884), French agricultural chemist, 1884. Barral was the first to extract nicotine from tobacco leaf

William Henry Barlow (1812-1902), British civil engineer. He invented the Barlow saddleback rail (1859) and was the engineer of St Pancras Station (1868) and the New Tay Bridge (1882)

Jean Antoine de Baif (1532-1589), French poet. He was a member of the Pleiade, a group of seven French poets devoted to reforming the French language and ennobling French literature

George Stuart White, British soldier, 1900. White (1835-1912) won the Victoria Cross (VC) in the 2nd Afghan War, 1879. Commander of Natal (1899-1900) during the 2nd Boer War

Bust of a Stoic (possibly Kleanthos), Roman, after a Greek original of c280 BC. The HPODOTOC inscription is modern. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

Ben Crosland, 2008. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Ben Crosland with Threeway with Steve Lodder and Steve Waterman, 2008

Peter Oxley, 2008. Artist: Alan John Ainsworth
Peter Oxley, Southport Jazz on a Winters Weekend, 2008

A female with hair tied back and a bald male facing each other, 1645

A large man with a bald head facing a grotesque female, 1625-77

Sir Rowland Hill, originator of the Postage Stamp, 1893
Sir Rowland Hill (1795-1879), English teacher, inventor and social reformer. Hill campaigned for the reform of the postal system

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