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Victor Hugo Photograph
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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, known as Victor Hugo, was a French Romantic writer and politician. He was born on the 26th February 1802 and had a literary career that spanned more than…
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Napolean Sarony Self Portrait
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Napolean Sarony

Napolean Sarony was an American lithographer and photographer. He was born on March 9th, 1821 and died on November 9th, 1896. He was a highly popular portrait photographer, best known…
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Silver gelatin print of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, print maker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him…
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William Rothenstein by Hills & Saunders
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William Rothenstein

Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art. Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make…
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Portrait of Lawrence when a Boy
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Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was a child…
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Dorothy Wilding Portrait
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Dorothy Wilding

Alfred Ellis was an English photographer. He had a studio on Baker Street, London from 1884 until 1898. He was a member of the Photographic Society
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MARIE OF ROMANIA SIGNED PORTRAIT
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Bertram Park

Bertram Park. Bertram Charles Percival Park OBE (1883–1972) was a portrait photographer whose work included British and European royalty. Engravings of his photographs were widely used on British and British…
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Lady Alexandra Acheson as Hunting Costume, period of Louis XV
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Alfred Ellis

Alfred Ellis (1854-1930) was an English photographer. He had a studio on Baker Street, London from 1884 until 1898. From 1883, he was a member of the Photographic Society (which…
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Photographic portrait of the actress Florence Collingbourn in San Toy, Alfred Ellis and Walery, London, ca. 1899.
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Walery, Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Ostroróg

Stanislaw Julian Ignacy Ostrorog (also known as Walery, Stanislas Walery, Lucien Walery, and Laryew, born 12 September 1863 – 24 February 1929) was a Polish photographer active in London and…
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