Sir William Howard Russell
(1820-1907), JournalistSitter in 21 portraits
The events of the Crimean War were reported home with unprecedented speed and vividness. Russell's letters to the Times, especially his outraged accounts of the sufferings of the troops in the winter of 1854-5, alerted the public to the true condition of the army and largely inspired the efforts of Florence Nightingale and others.
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, late 1850s
NPG P301(128)
by Carlo Pellegrini
watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 16 January 1875
NPG 3268
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3602
by Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x15139
by Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG x32951
by Charles DeForest Fredricks & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1861
NPG x15142
by Mathew B. Brady, published by Edward Anthony
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1861
NPG x197980
by Maull & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
NPG x46571
by Thomas Cranfield
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
NPG Ax7537
by John Patrick
albumen carte-de-visite, 1865
NPG x197159
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870s
NPG Ax18264
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1870s
NPG x46544
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
NPG Ax17511
by (Octavius) Charles Watkins
albumen cabinet card, circa 1876
NPG x32950
by Schier & Schoefft
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1882
NPG x8722
by Thomas Herbert Maguire, printed by M & N Hanhart
lithograph, 1854-1856
NPG D39944
by James Henry Lynch, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, and Paul and Dominic Colnaghi & Co, and Ernest Gambart & Co, and Williams & Co, after Roger Fenton
lithograph, published 22 October 1855
NPG D39943
Sir William Howard Russell ('Men of the Day. No. 96.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 16 January 1875
NPG D43675
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