
He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. Sir Francis Galton, FRS FRAI ( / ˈ ɡ ɔː l t ən/ 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto- geneticist, psychometrician and a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics, and scientific racism. Herbert Duckworth Roger Fenton, Landscape with clouds Marey, Joinville Soldier Walking Francis Galton, eugenics, and photography Victorian art Browse this content Early Victorian Sir Edwin Landseer, Windsor Castle in Modern Times Charles Barry and A.W.N.Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal (1853)Īnthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Statistics Getty Conversations Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion Anna Atkins and the cyanotype process Lady Clementina Hawarden, Clementina and Florence Elizabeth Maude Julia Margaret Cameron, Mrs. Trophîme, Arles Muybridge, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion Turner at Tate Britain John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton Germany Browse this content Caspar David Friedrich Monk by the Sea Abbey in the Oak Forest Solitary Tree (or Lone Tree) Woman at a Window Runge, Hülsenbeck Children Early photography Browse this content Early Photography: Niépce, Talbot and Muybridge Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, View from the Window at Le Gras Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre Paris Boulevard or View of the Boulevard du Temple The Artist’s Studio / Still Life with Plaster Casts David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Newhaven Fishwives John Whipple, William Bond, and George Bond, The Moon, No. Turner The Harbor of Dieppe The Fighting Temeraire Slave Ship Snow Storm Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway J.M.W. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford on casta paintingsīrowse this content Becoming Modern, an introduction What was the Industrial Revolution? Romanticism Browse this content A beginner's guide A beginner’s guide to Romanticism Orientalism Staging the Egyptian Harem for Western Eyes France Browse this content Romanticism in France, an introduction Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Pest House in Jaffa Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Portrait of Madame Rivière Napoleon on His Imperial Throne Apotheosis of Homer Painting colonial culture: La Grande Odalisque Théodore Géricault Raft of the Medusa Portraits of the Insane Eugène Delacroix Eugène Delacroix, an introduction Scene of the Massacre at Chios The cost of war: Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi The Death of Sardanapalus Liberty Leading the People Women of Algiers in Their Apartment Murals in the Chapel of The Holy Angels, Saint-Sulpice François Rude, La Marseillaise Spain Browse this content Francisco Goya Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Enrique Chagoya on Goya’s Los Caprichos Francisco Goya, The Family of Charles IV Francisco Goya, And there’s nothing to be done from The Disasters of War Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808 Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring One Of His Sons England Browse this content Henry Fuseli The Nightmare Titania and Bottom William Blake The spiritual form of Nelson guiding Leviathan The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins John Constable Constable and the English landscape Wivenhoe Park, Essex The Hay Wain View on the Stour near Dedham Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows J.

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