Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, looking to the left, of the dramatist and theatre owner Sir William Schwenk Gilbert (1836-1911).
Professor Huxley, L.L.D., F.R.S. Photographer: Waléry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, holding a book, of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), President of the Royal Society 1883-85.
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait, posed reading a book, of the leading Shakespearian actress Dame Alice Ellen Terry (1848-1928).
His Excellency M. Waddington. Photographer: Waléry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait, looking to the left, of the English educated French politician William Henry Waddington (1826-1894), Prime Minister of France 1879 and French Ambassador to the Court of St James 1883-93.
His Excellency Count Hatzfeldt. Photographer: Waléry
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Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated full-face portrait of the German Ambassador to the Court of St James, Melchior Hubert Paul, Count Hatzfeldt (b. 1831).
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of the Estonian born Russian diplomat George Charles Frederic de Staal (b. 1822), Russian Ambassador to the Court of St James from 1884.