Influential Collection

The Rules of Life by H. M. Bateman
A baby in a highchair is presented with a long list of rules for life by a queue of influential people including his nurse, his parents, teacher, police officer, judge and vicar. Date: 1930

Malleus Maleficarum
The Hammer of witches, authored by Dominicans Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, is the most influential book promoting the real existence of the witchcraft heresy

Madame Recamier
JEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD Also known as MADAME RECAMIER, influential French social and political hostess

Art Nouveau Embroidery
Four art nouveau embroidery designs by Ann Macbeth, one of the most gifted designers of the influential Glasgow School. Date: 1902

Lord Leverhulme
WILLIAM HESKETH LEVER, baron LEVERHULME Popular Irish Influential industrialist

The Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu-Hsi)
L Dorado. The Empress Dowager Cixi (Tzu-Hsi) (1835-1908) causing trouble for a (representation of) the Chinese Emperor. Date: 1900

Landscape painting by Gertrude Jekyll
The Pilgrim's Yews, Merrow Downs - Landscape painting by Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer. Date: 1890

H. Desbrowe Annear, Esq
A portrait pencil drawing of the influential Australian architect, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement and designer of the Federation Arch, Princes Bridge in 1901

Kenneth Tynan with J B Priestley
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Seen here (left) with J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984)

Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic and writer
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Date: circa 1960s

Florence Fenwick Miller, English journalist and author
Florence Fenwick Miller (1854-1935), English journalist, author and social reformer, editor and proprietor of The Womans Signal, an influential feminist journal. 1897

Wycliffe explains his thoughts before the Archbishop
John Wycliffe (circa 1320s 1384) -an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, biblical translator, reformer, priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford

La Mousme, by Van Gogh
La Mousme (also: La Mousme, Sitting in a Cane Chair), half-figure, with a branch of oleander, by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) - oil painting on canvas. Date: 1888

Andrea Vesalio. De humani corporis fabrica
Vesalius, Andreas (1514-1564). Brabantian anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica. Oil

Eliphas Levi
French occultist and influential author, photographed on his deathbed

The Grave of Robert and Clara Schumann at Bonn, Germany
The Grave of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife Clara at Bonn, Germany - Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. Date: 1920s

Caricature of the preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Caricature of the British Particular Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. circa 1870s

Nathan Natty, 1st Baron Rothschild
Liberal politician, banker, philanthropist and father of Walter Rothschild, he built what became the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

Winston Churchill Hunting Boar, France, 1927
Photograph showing Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churcill (1874-1965), hunting boar on horseback in the Forest of Eu, Foucarmont, France, 1927

Edward Carpenter
EDWARD CARPENTER - influential sandal-wearing nudism-favour- ing idealist, gay, vegetarian, sought to combine socialism with eastern religion. Major influence on many writers &c

Caricature, Clement Scott, English theatre critic
Caricature, Clement William Scott (1841-1904), influential English theatre critic who worked for the Daily Telegraph and other papers

Caricature of Ledger, Scott and Sampson
Caricature of Edward Ledger (18??-1921), editor of The Era theatrical newspaper, commenting on a reconciliation between Clement William Scott (1841-1904), influential English theatre critic

Gambetta at a Salon
LEON MICHEL GAMBETTA French statesman, making his debut at Madame Adams Paris salon, an influential gathering - where his hostess is the only female ! Date: 1838 - 1882

Agostino Gallo
AGOSTINO GALLO Italian writer on agricultural matters, important and influential. Date: 1499 - 1570

Laurence Eusden
LAURENCE EUSDEN Churchman who obtained the post of Poet Laureate by addressing verses of obsequious flattery to influential persons. Date: 1688 - 1730

John Dickinson, Statesman
JOHN DICKINSON American statesman who played an influential part in the Revolution yet voted against the Independence declaration. with his autograph Date: 1732 - 1808

First Duke Devonshire
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, first Duke of DEVONSHIRE influential statesman, serving Charles II and the protestant cause, supporting William III. He also wrote good verses. Date: 1640 - 1707

Ps Dupont De Nemours
Pierre Samuel DUPONT DE NEMOURS French economist, who for political reasons emigrated to the United States where he became an influential figure Date: 1739 - 1817

William E Channing
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Influential American clergyman, known as the Apostle of Unitarianism, wrote about social and philanthropic issues Date: 1780 - 1842

Alexander of Hales
ALEXANDER OF HALES known as Doctor Irrefragabilis, English theologian and philosopher, Franciscan, influential teacher Date: 1175 - 1245

Francois De Lachaise
Francois d Aix de LACHAISE Influential French Jesuit priest, confessor of Louis XIV Date: 1624 - 1709

Danish Well-Wishers
NYTaRSGRATULANTER Well-wishers gather to give their New Year congratulations to an influential individual Date: circa 1860

Samuel Laing (1812 - 1897), English railwayman, chairman of the London and Brighton Railway Company. Promoter of railway excursions

Portrait of Maximilien Fran篩s Marie Isidore de Robespierre. French lawyer, politician and one of the most influential people during the French Revolution

Portrait illustration of Christopher Plantin, an influential French book printer, publisher and renaissance humanist. Date: 1588

Charlotte Lady Sundon
CHARLOTTE CLAYTON (nee Dyves) lady SUNDON, wife of William, baron C. Bedchamber woman to Caroline of Brandenburg- Anspach (wife of George II) : an influential lady at court. Date: ? - 1742

Edmund Clarence Stedman
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN American stockbroker, poet and influential critic. Date: 1833 - 1908

Alfred Saker
ALFRED SAKER - English missionary in the Cameroons, translated bible into Duala : Livingstone considered him the most influential missionary in west Africa. Date: 1814 - 1880

Charles Sainte-Beuve
CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE Influential French literary critic. Date: 1804 - 1869

Marie De Schomberg
MARIE DE HAUTEFORT, duchesse de SCHOMBERG Influential French court lady, confidante of cardinal Richelieu. Date: ? - 1691

Sor Patrocinio
Maria de los Dolores Rafaela Quiroga, known as SOR PATROCINIO, Spanish religious stigmatic and reputed miracle- worker who played influential part in Spanish politics. Date: 1809? - 1891

Dinus Mugellanus
DINUS (or Dynus) MUGELLANUS Influential Italian jurist. (Some think he lived till 1303.) Date: 1253? - 1298?

Maximilian Von Konigseck
MAXIMILIAN FRIEDRICH von KONIGSECK German catholic churchman, Prince-archbishop of Munster, an influential and effective administrator. Date: circa 1761

A Mounted African Wooden carving. 1959

Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi. Influential Italian Romantic composer of opera

Berlioz, Hector 1803 - 1869
Louis Hector Berlioz 1803 - 1869. Major French Romantic composer, influential in the development of the symphonic form

Propaganda Train
The left-hand figure in this group is John Reed, author of the enormously influential Ten days that shook the world, described here as il communista americano

Anti Home-Rulers attacking Winston Churchills car, Belfast
Illustration showing a crowd of anti home-rulers attacking the car carrying Winston Leonard Spencer Churcill (1874-1965), then First Lord of the Admiralty

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