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• Biography -- Portraits -- Exhibitions

• Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor : The New Gallery. (R. Clay, 1890), by England) New Gallery (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of historical portraits selected from the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866 : photographed from the original paintings. (London : Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art, [1866?], 1866), by National Portrait Exhibition (Great Britain) (1866) and Arundel Society for Promoting the Knowledge of Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition of the royal house of Stuart. (The New Gallery, 1889), by England) New Gallery (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition of the royal house of Stuart. (The New Gallery, 1889), by England) New Gallery (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-two photographs from the Oxford loan collection of historical portraits exhibited in 1906 (s.n., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. (4 volumes; London: H. Graves and Co., 1899-1901), by Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, contrib. by Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Twenty-four portraits (G. Allen & Unwin, 1920), by William Rothenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads. Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits. Interspersed with variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. With a preface. (Printed for T. Davies, 1769), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of England, from Egbert to the Great revolution. A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to which are subjoined exact emendations and improvements of the index to the former volumes; and a list of curious portraits of eminent persons not yet engraved (Printed for T. Davies, 1774), by James Granger and Horace Walpole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition illustrative of early English portraiture. (Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1909), by Burlington Fine Arts Club, Max Rosenheim, C. F. Bell, and Lionel Cust (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ... (Clarendon Press, 1909), by H. B. Butler, C. R. L. Fletcher, and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits of English historical personages who died between 1625 and 1714 exhibited in the examination schools, Oxford, April and May, MDCCCCV. (The Clarendon Press, 1905), by University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits of English historical personages who died between 1714 and 1837 exhibited in the examination schools, Oxford, April and May, MDCCCCVI. (Clarendon Press, 1906), by University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four portraits Second series. (Chato & Windus, 1923), by William Rothenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of the parliamentary officers of the great civil war; being the facsimiles of a rare series published in 1647; with new brief biographical notices of their lives and actions ... (E. Daniell, 1873), by Edward Daniell and Josiah Ricraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bazili[omega]logia, a booke of kings: notes on a rare series of engraved English royal portraits from William the Conqueror to James I (The Grolier club, 1913), by Howard Coppuck Levis and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century (Halton & Truscott Smith;, 1926), by Charles Edward Russell and John Chaloner Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of portraits in the possession of the university, colleges, city, and county of Oxford (The Clarendon press, for the Oxford historical society, 1912), by England) Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, Rachael Poole, and University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The biographical mirrour, comprising a series of ancient and modern English portraits, of eminent and distinguished persons, from original pictures and drawings. (S. and E. Harding, 1795), by F. G. Waldron, E. Harding, and Sylvester Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael Dahl and the contemporary Swedish school of painting in England (Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-aktiebolag, 1927), by Wilhelm Nisser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century (Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1830), by William Jerdan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads: intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons ... With a preface ... (W. Baynes and Son, 1824), by James Granger and James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. (H.G. Bohn, 1849), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical portraits, the lives by C.R.L. Fletcher, the portraits chosen by Emery Walker; with an introd. on the history of portraiture in England. (Clarendon Press, 1909), by H. B. Butler, C. R. L. Fletcher, and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Longleat in the county of Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Bath. (E. Stock, 1881), by Mary Louisa Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• National worthies (Constable, 1899), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opie and his works: being a catalogue of 760 pictures by John Opie, R.A., preceded by a biographical sketch. (P. and D. Colnaghi and co.;, 1878), by John Jope Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibition of the Royal House of Guelph (The New Gallery;, 1891), by Herbert A. Grueber and England) New Gallery (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. (Printed for Harding and Lepard, 1835), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tag, rag and bob-tail! Being the portraits of sixteen notorious personages, (famous and infamous), chiefly about Cromwell's time (London, 1800), by I. T. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• British autography. A collection of facsimilies of the hand writing of royal and illustrious personages, with their authentic portraits. (J. Thane, 1819), by John Thane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits illustrative of the novels, tales, & romances of the author of "Waverly". (C. Baldwyn, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain (W. Smith, 1840), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The unequalled collection of engraved portraits belonging to Hon. James T. Mitchell ... embracing the lord chancellors and chief justices of Great Britain, eminent English lawyers, kings and queens of Great Britain, English princes and princesses, and members of royal families, mostly engraved in mezzotinto, to be sold ... February 26 ... and ... February 27, 1908 ... (Press of W. F. Fell company, 1908), by James T. Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of the celebrated persons composing the Kit-Cat Club : with a prefatory account of the origin of the association : illustrated with forty-eight portraits, from the original paintings by Sir Godfrey Kneller. (Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1821), by James Caulfield and Godfrey Kneller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of a loan collection of portraits of English historical personages who died prior to the year of 1625, exhibited in the examination schools, Oxford (The Clarendon Press, 1904), by University of Oxford and Oxford Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and royal portraits illustrative of English and Scottish history : from the introduction of Christianity to the present time : engraved from important works by distinguished modern painters and from authentic state portraits, with descriptive historical sketches (Blackie, 1882), by Thomas Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A supplement, consisting of corrections and large additions, to A biographical history of England, referred to their proper places in that work, to which besides an index to the additional characters, are subjoined exact emendations and improvements of the index to the former volumes, and a list of curious portraits of eminent persons not yet engraved, communicated by ... Horace Walpole, to the author. (Printed for T. Davies, 1774), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of engraved portraits of celebrated personages : chiefly connected with the history and literature of Great Britain : accompanied by short biographical notes, especially in reference to the localities with which they were associated (Walter V. Daniell, 1900), by Walter Vernon Daniell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of engraved national portraits in the National art library (Printed for H.M. Stationery off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1895), by National Art Library (Great Britain) and Julian Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. (Tinsley, 1873), by Frederick Waddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Portrait Gallery. (s.n., in the 19th century), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our British portrait painters, 1617-1872; sixteen engravings on steel, with descriptive and historical notices (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1874), by Edmund Ollier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-four portraits (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1920), by William Rothenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century; with memoirs (Fisher, son, & Jackson, 1830), by William Jerdan and Henry Stebbing (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of England, from Egbert the Great to the revolution: (W. Baynes and son, 1824), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical catalogue of portraits, representing distinguished persons in the history and literature of the United Kingdom. (W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1820), by British Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Collection of four hundred portraits of remarkable, eccentric and notorious personages printed from the original copper plates of Caulfield's Remarkable characters, Grainger, and Kirby's Wonderful museum. (Reeves & Turner, 1880), by William Granger, R. S. Kirby, and James Caulfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history (Cassell and company, limited, 1906), by Benjamin Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of the Parliamentary officers of the Great Civil War : being the facsimiles of a rare series published in 1647 : with new brief biographical notices of their lives and actions. (Pryor, 1991), by Josiah Ricraft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain, engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions ... (printed for Harding, Mavor & Lepard, 1823), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Hoppner, R.A. (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. [etc.], 1909), by William Darling McKay and W. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of the court of Henry VIII. (Printed by W. Bulmer and co., 1828), by John Chamberlaine, King of Great Britain George IV, and Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The National Portrait Gallery. (Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1875), by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The national portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages, chiefly of the nineteenth century, with memoirs (Fisher, Son, & Co., 1846), by W. C. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regal and ecclesiastical antiquities of England : containing the representations of all the English monarchs from Edward the Confessor to Henry the Eighth : together with many of the great persons that were eminent under their several reigns : the whole carefully collected from ancient illuminated manuscripts (Published for Walter Shropshire ..., 1777), by Joseph Strutt, Walter Shropshire, and John Fenn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of rare portraits (Published for the proprietor by G. Jones, 1816), by Samuel Woodburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical portraits, 1700-1850 (Clarendon Press, 1919), by C. R. L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Queen street, Edinburgh, under the management of the Board of Manufactures (Printed for the Board of manufactures, 1885), by Scottish National Portrait Gallery and John Miller Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical portraits, Richard II to Henry Wriothesley, 1400-1600 (Clarendon Press, 1909), by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher and Emery Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical portraits, 1600-1700; the lives (The Clarendon press, 1911), by H. B. Butler, Emery Walker, and C. R. L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cartoon Portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. (Tinsley Brothers, 1874), by Frederick Waddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of engraved portraits of celebrated personages : chiefly connected with the history and literature of Great Britain (W.V. Daniell, 1900), by Walter Vernon Daniell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions (George Bell and Sons, 1888), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• English portraits, a series of lithographed drawings (G. Richards, 1898), by William Rothenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of mark : a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the senate, the church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1876-1883., 1876), by Lock & Whitfield, Thompson Cooper, and Marston Sampson Low (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the pictures in the collection of the Earl of Radnor (Priv. print. at the Chiswick Press, 1909), by Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie Radnor, William Barclay Squire, and Helen Matilda Chaplin Radnor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of His Majesty, the nobility, and the public collections : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions (Printed for Harding and Lepard, 1829), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical history of England, adapted to a methodical catalogue of portraits (s.n., 1824), by James Granger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johann Holbein : le livre de portraits à Windsor Castle : choix de cinquante dessins en fac-similé. (Braun, 1927), by Hans Holbein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of the Earl of Radnor's collection of pictures (Longford Castle, To be obtained from the Housekeeper, 1916), by Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie Radnor, William Barclay Squire, and Helen Matilda Chaplin Radnor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain. : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country. : With biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. (Published by John Tallis and Company, 1855), by Edmund Lodge and John Tallis & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of portraits in the possession of the university, colleges, city, and county of Oxford (Clarendon Press, 1912), by England) Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, Rachael Poole, and University of Oxford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bygone beauties: a select series of ten portraits of ladies of rank and fashion, from paintings by John Hoppner ... engraved by Charles Wilkin (The Leadenhall press [etc.], 1883), by John Hoppner and Andrew White Tuer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility and the public collections of the country ; with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions (W. Smith, 1836), by Edmund Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cumberland's portrait gallery. (Cumberland, 1800), by John Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men I have painted (T. F. Unwin, ltd., 1921), by John McLure Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• National portrait gallery of illustrious and eminent personages of the nineteenth century (Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1830), by William Jerdan, Clarence S. Bement, and W. H. Ince (page images at HathiTrust)

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