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Frederick Holland Mares and others
'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age' [Detail]
1863
Carte de visite, cropped
National Portrait Gallery - NPG
Acquired from Mr & Mrs Gill, NPG x139661
LL/121505
This photomontage has been created using the photographs of numerous photographers including:
Ashford Brothers & Co, Photographers.
Émile Desmaisons (1812-1880), Lithographer.
Disdéri (1819-1889), Photographer.
Duroni & Murer (active 1860s), Photographers.
William Edward Kilburn (1818-1891), Photographer.
Horatio Nelson King (1828-1905), Photographer, dealer and stationer.
Frederick Holland Mares, Photographer.
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901), Photographer.
James Mudd (1821-1906), Photographer.
Camille Silvy (1834-1910), Photographer.
Unknown photographers, Photographers.
(George) Herbert Watkins (1828-1916), Photographer.
John & Charles Watkins (active 1863-1870),
Sitters include:
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), Fourth and youngest son of Queen Victoria.
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria.
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Queen of Edward VII.
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900), Naval officer; second son of Queen Victoria.
Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878), Third child of Queen Victoria; wife of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine.
Prince Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), Field Marshal, Governor General of Canada; son of Queen Victoria.
Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Louisa, Duchess of Cambridge (1797-1889), Wife of Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge.
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), Prime Minister and novelist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
Princess Beatrice of Battenberg (1857-1944), Fifth and youngest daughter of Queen Victoria; wife of Prince Henry of Battenberg.
Charles Blondin (1824-1897), Tightrope walker.
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Natural philosopher and academic administrator.
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1792-1863), Field Marshal.
George Cruikshank (1792-1878), Caricaturist and illustrator.
Giovanni Matteo de Candia (Mario) (1810-1883), Italian tenor.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Novelist.
Maharaja Duleep Singh (1838-1893), Maharaja of Lahore.
King Edward VII (1841-1910), Reigned 1901-10.
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (1837-1898), Wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (1820-1878), Reigned 1849-78.
Eugénie, Empress of France ('Eugénie de Montijo') (1826-1920), Consort of Napoléon III of France.
Frederick III, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia (1831-1888), Reigned 1888; husband of Princess Victoria (Princess Royal).
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian soldier; played central role in unification of Italy.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Prime Minister and writer; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sir George Grey (1812-1898), Colonial governor.
Giulia Grisi (1810?-1869), Singer.
Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923), Wife of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; third daughter of Queen Victoria.
Charles John Kean (1811-1868), Actor and theatre manager; second son of Edmund Kean.
Eleanora ('Ellen') Kean (née Tree) (1805-1880), Actress. S
Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn (1786-1861), Mother of Queen Victoria.
John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811-1879), Viceroy of India.
Johanna Maria ('Jenny') Lind (1820-1887), Singer, known as 'the Swedish nightingale'; wife of Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt.
David Livingstone (1813-1873), Missionary and explorer.
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892), Soldier; husband of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse.
Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939), Artist, sculptor and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873), Novellist, playwright and Conservative politician; MP for St Ives, Lincoln and Hertfordshire.
Maria Alexandrovna, Empress of Russia (1824-1880), Wife of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia.
Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck (1833-1897), Philanthropist; mother of Queen Mary.
Charles James Mathews (1803-1878), Actor and dramatist; son of Charles Mathews.
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (1829-1896), Painter and President of the Royal Academy; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
Napoléon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Reigned 1852-70.
Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), Lieutenant; son of Napoléon III.
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Reformer of hospital nursing and of the Army Medical Services.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865), Prime Minister.
Adelina Patti (1843-1919), Singer; sister of Carlotta Patti.
Pope Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) (1792-1878), Pope 1846-78.
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878), Prime Minister and writer; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-1885), Philanthropist, social reformer and Conservative politician; MP for Woodstock, Dorchester, Dorset and Bath.
Albert Richard Smith (1816-1860), Writer, public lecturer and mountaineer.
Archibald Campbell Tait (1811-1882), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892), Poet Laureate.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901), Reigned 1837-1901.
Victoria, Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia (1840-1901), Consort of Frederick III, German Emperor, King of Prussia; daughter of Queen Victoria.
George Washington (1732-1799), First President of the United States.
Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), Bishop of Oxford and of Winchester; son of William Wilberforce; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (1802-1865), Cardinal-Archbishop of Westminster.
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