Lot Essay
Sitters include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Francis William Newman, Rev. George MacDonald, Anthony Trollope, Edward George Lytton, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, poet John Harris, John Coardy Jeaffreson, Edward Dyne Fenton, Edward Lear, Dr. Norman McLeod, Alaric Alexander Watts, Ralph Gordon Noel King Milbank, Peter Robert Drummond, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Kingsley Cuckfield, George Henry Kingsley, Henry W. Longfellow, 'Ouida', journalist Edward Baines, Sir Henry Taylor, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, John Oxenford, James Albery, Robert Reece, James Hain Friswell, Thomas Hughes, medical writer Francis Herbert Ramsbotham, publisher John Murray, diplomatist and poet Julian Henry Charles Fane, Lady Rose Fane, poet and writer Rev. Whitwell Elwin, German poet Emanuel Geibel, novelist and song-writer Samuel Lover, sporting writer Henry Hall Dixon, novelist Mary Ann Cross 'George Eliot', poet Eliza Cook, essayist and dramatist Andrew Halliday, essayist and historian Sir John Robert Seeley, George Augustus Sala, Mary and William Howitt and William Black.