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Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), Naturalist, geologist and originator of the theory of evolution

Sitter in 24 portraits
Naturalist who formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection; the result of years of research, his 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.

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Charles Robert Darwin

by Maull & Polyblank
albumen print, arched top, circa 1855
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Julia Margaret Cameron
albumen print, 1868
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Marion Collier (née Huxley)
pencil, 1878
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Charles Robert Darwin

copy by John Collier
oil on canvas, 1883 (1881)
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Horace Montford
terracotta bust, after 1882
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
terracotta bust, 1883
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Harry Furniss
pen and ink
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Charles Robert Darwin

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1866
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Charles Robert Darwin

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, after Ernest Edwards
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1866
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Charles Robert Darwin

by Ernest Edwards
albumen print, circa 1866
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