Sitters are as follows: George Sand, Wilkie Collins, Rudyard Kipling, Alexander Dumas, Gioacchino Rossini, Jean M. Meissonier, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hardy, William Gladstone and his son Herbert Gladstone, Thomas Huxley, Anthony Trollope, Charles Darwin, Longfellow, George Macdonald, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Hughes, Ernest Renan, Empress Eugénie, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Miss Kate Greenaway.