Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Naturalist, geologist and originator of the theory of evolution
Charles Robert Darwin
Sitter in 30 portraits
Naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection; the result of years of research, his On the Origin of Species (1859) made a meticulous survey of life-forms and the conditions which governed their development; wrote other important works on botany, zoology, geology, and evolution.
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 29 November 1881
NPG x5938
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, 29 November 1881
NPG x17013
by Faustin Betbeder ('Faustin')
coloured lithograph, 1874-1875
On display in Room 27 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG D1388
by Paul Adolphe Rajon, after Walter William Ouless
etching, (1875)
NPG D34689
by Léopold Flameng, after John Collier
etching, published 1883
NPG D9709
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1878
NPG Ax17583
Darwin
Related People
Frances Cornford (née Darwin) (granddaughter)
Bernard Darwin (grandson)
Sir Charles Galton Darwin (grandson)
Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) (wife)
Erasmus Darwin (grandfather)
Sir Francis Darwin (son)
Sir George Howard Darwin (son)
Gwendolen ('Gwen') Raverat (née Darwin) (granddaughter)
Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood (nephew)
Links
Down House, Kent
Natural History Museum, London
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge
The House of Charles Darwin, Downe, Kent
University Herbarium, Cambridge
Category
Science
Groups
Geologists
Naturalists
Places
Kent
London
Shropshire
