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Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish writer, essayist, historian and social reformer. He lived most of his later life in London, England, and is sometimes also called the 'Sage of Chelsea' after the neighbourhood where he lived there.


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  • Thomas Carlyle's birthplace

    Birthplace of Thomas Carlyle, Ecclefechan

  • Carlyle's House Ampton Street

    Carlyle's home at 4 (now 33) Ampton Street, London, marked with a plaque by the London County Council

  • Water-colour Sketch of Thomas Carlyle

    Watercolor sketch of Thomas Carlyle, age 46, by Samuel Laurence

  • Picture of Thomas Carlyle

    Thomas Carlyle in 1854

  • Mrs Helen Allingham - Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881. Historian and essayist - Google Art Project

    Helen Allingham's 1879 painting of Carlyle

  • Thomas Carlyle Vanity Fair 22 October 1870

    Caricature by Ape published in Vanity Fair in 1870.

  • Jane Baillie Carlyle (née Welsh) by Samuel Laurence detail

    Portrait of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Samuel Laurence, c.1852

  • Picture of Carlyle's Grave

    Carlyle's Grave at Ecclefechan

  • Thomas Carlyle by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt

    Carlyle painted by John Everett Millais. Froude wrote of this painting "under Millais's hands the old Carlyle stood again upon the canvas as I had not seen him for thirty years. The inner secret of the features had been evidently caught. There was a likeness which no sculptor, no photographer, had yet equalled or approached. Afterwards, I knew not how, it seemed to fade away."

  • Whistler James Arrangement in Gray and Black No2 1873

    Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. James McNeill Whistler, 1872–3. Oil on canvas, 171 x 143.5 cm.

  • Craigenputtock george moir

    Craigenputtock House, by George Moir, 1829

  • Maurice

    Carlyle (left) depicted with Frederick Maurice in Ford Madox Brown's painting Work (1865)


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