Sir Henry Morton Stanley
(1841-1904), Explorer and journalistLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 41 portraits
The journalist and explorer became involved with African exploration in response to an assignment from the New York Herald to 'find Livingstone'. Famously meeting Livingstone in October 1871, they spent the following months exploring Lake Tanganyika. He returned to England and published How I Found Livingstone (1872) to great success. Stanley's subsequent expedition to traverse Africa (1874 -77) settled many of the controversies over the Nile's source by circumnavigating Lake Victoria and charting the course of the Congo River.
by James Russell & Sons
albumen cabinet card, circa 1890
NPG x13207
by Frederick John Jenkins, after Walery
heliogravure, 1890
NPG x26561
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, 6 May 1890, published June 1890
NPG Ax9169
Dorothy (née Tennant), Lady Stanley; Sir Henry Morton Stanley
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890
NPG Ax68486
Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Dorothy (née Tennant), Lady Stanley and 'Saleh bin Osman'
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, 1890
NPG Ax68770
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant)
platinum print, circa 1890
NPG Ax68518
by Walery, published by Sampson Low & Co
carbon print, 6 May 1890, published June 1890
NPG Ax38329
by Maclure, Macdonald & Co, after Walery
photogravure, published August 1890
NPG x26562
'Henry M. Stanley and party at Monterey'
by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68648
'Henry M. Stanley and party at Monterey'
by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68649
by Isaiah West Taber
albumen panel card, 19 March 1891
NPG Ax68650
by Alexander Bassano
bromide print, circa 1893
NPG x85792
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 1897
NPG x35100
Sir Henry Morton Stanley ('Men of the Day, No. 52.')
by Charles Auguste Loye ('M.D' or Montbard)
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 2 November 1872
NPG D43560
'The Great African Meeting. From a Sketch by a Native' (Sir Henry Morton Stanley; David Livingstone)
published by Frederick Arnold, after Unknown artist
lithograph, published in the Hornet 21 August 1872
NPG D48302
by and published by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
etching, 1887 or after
NPG D6838
Sir Henry Morton Stanley; Mehmed Emin Pasha (né Eduard Schnitzer) and unknown sitters
by Harry Générés Banks, printed by Stannard & Son, published by Charles Sheard
chromolithograph, 1890
NPG D42819
Livingstone and Stanley Meet (Sir Henry Morton Stanley; David Livingstone)
by Unknown artist, published by The London Missionary Society
glass magic lantern slide, circa 1900
NPG D18406
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1872
NPG x12935
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1880
NPG x26560
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