Whisker Collection (page 3)

Sir William Fergusson, Bart, FRS, Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Sir William Fergusson, Bart, FRS, Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, 1877. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science

Right Hon Lord Winmarleigh, British Conservative politician, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Right Hon Lord Winmarleigh, British Conservative politician, 1877. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science

Sir James Macnaghten Hogg, Bart, MP, KCB, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1876. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Sir James Macnaghten Hogg, Bart, MP, KCB, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1876. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church

James Anthony Froude, British historian, 1876. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
James Anthony Froude, British historian, 1876. 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

Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider, Russian architect, 1860. Artist: Ivan Gokh
Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider, Russian architect, 1860. Stakenschneider (1802-1865) is credited with transforming Russian architecture from Neoclassicism to Romaticism

Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian author, c1860-c1864
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian economist and political theorist, c1860-c1864. A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Logginovitch Goremykin, Russian statesman, late 19th or early 20th century. After serving as Interior Minister from 1895 until 1899

Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, 19th century. Artist: Reichard & Lindner
Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, 19th century. The son of Johan Strauss the Elder, Johan Strauss the Younger (1825-1899) is best known for his Viennese waltzes

Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet, late 19th or early 20th century. Artist: Franz Hanfstaengl
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and poet, late 19th or early 20th century. Ibsen (1828-1906) is often described as the father of modern theatre

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, c1860s(?). Artist: E Westly & Co
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, c1860s(?). Grand Duke Michael (1832-1909) was the fourth son of Tsar Alexander I and Charlotte of Prussia

Wilhelm I, first Emperor of Germany, (1900). Artist: Paul Bulow
Wilhelm I, first Emperor of Germany, (1900). Wilhelm (1797-1888) became King of Prussia in 1861 and was proclaimed Emperor of Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War

John Tyndall, Irish-born British physicist and populariser of science, c1880. Tyndall (1820-1893) was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution

Simon the Apostle, 17th century. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Simon the Apostle, 17th century. From the Kunsthaus, Zurich

Portrait of Rembrandts Brother, Andrien van Rijn ?, 1654. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Portrait of Rembrandts Brother, Andrien van Rijn (?), 1654. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia

Tsar Alexander II of Russia, c1860s(?) Artist: Count Ivan Grigorievich Nostitz
Tsar Alexander II of Russia, c1860s(?). Alexander (1818-1881) was Tsar from 1855. Known as The Liberator, he emancipated Russias serfs in 1861

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and his family, c1862-c1862
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia and his family, c1862-c1863. Grand Duke Michael (1832-1909) was the fourth son of Tsar Alexander I and Charlotte of Prussia

Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, c1860s(?). Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827-1892) was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna

Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, c1863-c1865. Grand Duke Michael (1832-1909) was the fourth son of Tsar Alexander I and Charlotte of Prussia

Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, Baron Rothschild, c1880
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, Baron Rothschild c1880. Rothschild (1808-1879) British banker and philanthropist, eldest son of Nathan Meyer Rothschild

Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer, physician, surgeon and social reformer, 1882. Artist: Spy
Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer, physician, surgeon and social reformer, 1882. Smiles (1812-1904) was the author of Self Help. Cartoon from Vanity Fair. (London, 14 January 1882)

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Scottish Whig politician and scientist, c1880
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823-1900), Scottish Whig politician and scientist, c1880. Campbell was Secretary of State for India from 1868-1874

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), British poet, critic and educationalist, c1880. He was the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School

John Tyndall, Irish born physicist and mountaineer, 1893. Artist: John McLure Hamilton
John Tyndall, Irish born physicist and mountaineer, 1893. Tyndall (1820-1893) studied in Marburg under Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)

Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, c1880. Wilhelm (1797-1888) became King of Prussia in 1861 and was proclaimed Emperor of Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War

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

Albert (1828-1902), King of Saxony, c1890. Albert became king of Saxony in 1874. Previously, when Crown Prince, he commanded the army of Saxony against Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War (1866)

John Tyndall, Irish-born British physicist, 1872. Tyndall (1820-1893) was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution, London in 1854

Lord Shaftesbury, English statesman, moral philosopher, philanthropist and factory reformer, c1880
Earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman, moral philosopher, philanthropist and factory reformer, c1880. Anthony Ashley Cooper

Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, late 19th century. Wilhelm I (1797-1888), King of Prussia from 1861and the first Emperor (Kaiser) of Germany from 1871

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

Portrait of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, 1859. Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Portrait of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, 1859. Detail. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich (1827-1892) was the second son of Tsar Nicholas I and Alexandra Fyodorovna

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