Sir Richard Owen
(1804-1892), Naturalist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologistEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 35 portraits
From the mid 1830s the leading British comparative anatomist; one of the most formidable opponents of evolutionary theories, which he disputed with Huxley; superintendent of the Natural History Department of the British Museum, and designed new natural history galleries at South Kensington.
by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son
carbon print, published 1888
NPG x12634
Various actresses, singers and others
by and after Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 1890s
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after Frederick Richard Pickersgill
mezzotint, (circa 1845)
NPG D39479
by and published by William Walker, after Henry William Pickersgill
mezzotint, 1852
NPG D1389
by Daniel John Pound, after John & Charles Watkins
line and stipple engraving, late 1860s
NPG D39400
Sir Richard Owen ('Men of the Day, No. 57.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 1 March 1873
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by Charles Henry Jeens
stipple engraving, published circa 1880
NPG D36429
printed by Maclure & Macdonald, published by The Pictorial World, after Herbert Rose Barraud
chromolithograph, published 30 December 1882
NPG D39480
published by Photographische Gesellschaft, after Frederick Richard Pickersgill
photogravure, circa 1900
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by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
NPG D39296
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