Personality Collection (page 4)

Jack Hobbs, Surry and England cricketer, 1935
Jack Hobbs (1882-1963), Surrey and England cricketer. A print from the photo album Popular Personalities, issued for Piccadilly Juniors Oval Photos, 1935

Robert Elliot Storey Wyatt, (Quiet Wyatt), all-round circketer, 1935
Robert Elliot Storey Wyatt, (Quiet Wyatt), all-round circketer. A print from the photo album Popular Personalities, issued for Piccadilly Juniors Oval Photos, 1935

Natural Selection, 1871. Artist: Coide
Natural Selection, 1871. A caricature of British naturlist Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Darwin started his career on board the HMS Beagle and spent six years surveying the South American seas

Colonel William F Buffalo Bill Cody, late 19th or early 20th century (1954). One of the most colourful characters of the American West, Cody (1846-1917) was a soldier, buffalo hunter and showman

John Keats, English poet, (1912). Portrait of Keats (1795-1821) who died of tuberculosis. Illustration from Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London, by John Adcock, (J M Dent and Sons, London)

Cardinal Wolsey Going in Procession to Westminster Hall, 1887, (c1920). Wolsey dominated Henry VIIIs government from 1515 to 1529

Benjamin Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, (1834). Artist: E Scriven
Benjamin Jonson, English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, (1834). Jonson (c1572-1637) is best known for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, and for his lyric poems

Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier, 19th century. Artist: R Cooper
Sir Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier and soldier, 19th century. Sidney (1554-1586) was appointed Governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585

Autographs of Eminent Persons, 19th century. Signatures of famous Britons from an encyclopaedia: Sir Ralph Abercromby, soldier; J C Adams, astronomer; Roger Ascham, scholar; W Edmonstone Aytoun

Washington Irving, American author, 20th century. Portrait of the American author (1783-1859), creator of Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane

William Shakespeare, English playwright, 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
William Shakespeare, English playwright, 19th century. Portrait of the playwright (1564-1616)

Michael Faraday, British physicist and chemist, 1931. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Shakespeare, 1776. Artist: T Cook
Shakespeare, 1776. Portrait of the playwright (1564-1616), plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1776

Francisco Pizarro, 15th century Spanish conquistador, 1671. Later engraving of Pizarro (c1475-1541), conqueror of the Inca empire (1531-1533)

Mozart listening to Allegris Miserere, 1771, (1906). On a visit to Rome when he was fourteen, Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Mozart working on the overture for Don Giovanni, 1787, (1906). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote the overture on the night of 28 October 1787 ready for its first performance at the National

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) in 1770. Portrait of the Austiran composer as a teenager

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), c1790. The music below the portrait is the beginning of his song Das Veilchen (The Violet) dated 8 June 1789

Mozart as a child, c1763. Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) at the age of seven, seated at the keyboard

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, c1791. Portrait of Mozart (1756-1791)

Mozart working on his opera The Magic Flute, 1791, (1906). Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), and Emanuel Schikaneder (1751-1812), the librettist

The Mozart family in Paris in 1763. Artist: Louis de Carmontelle
The Mozart family in Paris in 1763. Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) is the violinist, the singer is his daughter Maria-Anna (Nannerl) (1751-1829)

Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1790
Franz Joseph Gall, German physician and founder of Phrenology, c1820. Phrenology was a theory, propounded by Gall (1758-1828) in around 1800

Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Artist: Frank Dadd
Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Measuring the bumps on a boys head to assess his future. On the wall in the background is a portrait of of Franz Josef Gall (1757-1828)

Phrenology chart, showing presumed areas of activity of the brain, c1920. Phrenology was a theory, propounded by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall in around 1800

Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Artist: E Walker
Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Clean, light and airy ward at the Barracks Hospital in Scutari, (Uskudar), Marmara, Turkey

Alexander Fleming Prix Nobel 1945. Nobel prize medal awarded to bacteriologist Alexander Fleming. Fleming is shown in profile, in relief, with French text round the edge

John Harrison, c1835. Artist: William Holl
John Harrison, c1835. Portrait of the English inventor and horologist wearing a wig. Harrison became famous for resolving one of the most problematic issues of his day - how to determine longitude

Galileo Galilei, 1623. Portrait of the astronomer Galileo, with a beard and fur collar, shown within an oval frame with Italian text

William Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood, 1851. Artist: H Lemon
William Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood, 1851. The English physician William Harvey MD, FRCP, was attached to St Bartholomews Hospital

Elizabeth Fry, 1844. Artist: J Cochran
Elizabeth Fry, 1844. Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker minister and prison reformer, who was also famous for introducing more humane conditions for the voyage of convicts to New South Wales

Thomas Linacre, MD, 1847. Artist: H Cook
Thomas Linacre, MD, 1847. Portrait of the physician to Henry VIII who founded the Royal College of Physicians in 1518. He was also a classical scholar, a translator from Greek

John Hunter, FRS, (c1850-c1870?). Artist: William Holl
John Hunter, FRS, (c1850-c1870?). Portrait of the Scottish surgeon and anatomist. His unique series of lectures on the theory and practice of surgery attracted numerous students

Dr Lyon Playfair, (c1850-c1880?). Artist: G Cook
Dr Lyon Playfair, (c1850-c1880?). This eminent Victorian rose from being a chemist in the Geological Survey in 1845, to become Secretary for Science and Art in 1855

Alberto Santos-Dumont and his airship, 1901. Artist: George Hum
Alberto Santos-Dumont and his airship, 1901. Caricature of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian pioneer in airship and aeroplane flights. He is shown flying in the basket of his airship

Louis Pasteur, 1885. Artist: Albert Edelfelt
Louis Pasteur, 1885. Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and biologist at work in his laboratory. Pasteur developed the pasteurisation process which kills pathogens in milk, wine and foods

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, c1784-1827. Artist: Giovanni Antonio Sasso
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, c1784-1827. Mozart (1756-1791) seated at the keyboard

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Cartoon of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch. (London, 25 June 1881)

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

Opening of a restaurant by popular French singers, Paris, September 1941. From left to right; Johnny Hess, Lys Gauty, Elyane Celis, Charpini

Louis Pasteur, French chemist and founder of modern bacteriology, 1887. Pasteur (1822-1895) holding rabbits used in his work on hydrophobia (rabies)

George Frideric Handel, (1685-1759), German composer, c1750s. Artist: Thomas Hudson
George Frideric Handel, (1685-1759), German composer, c1750s. Baroque composer Handel lived much of his life in England, where he composed his masterpiece, Messiah

Mao Zedong and Lin Biao, China, c1966. Mao (Mao Tse-Tung) (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader, followed by Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese military and political leader

Mao Zedong, Chinese Communist leader, 1960. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) (1893-1976) addressing a meeting of the Party faithful

Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian poet and librettist, c1890. Late 19th century portrait of da Ponte (1749-1838), born Emmanuele Conegliano

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