Portrait of M. Victor Hugo (1879) by Léon Bonnat. Click for hi-def image. (Via)
portraits of writers
Orwell
Colorized by Edvos. Date and photographer unknown. (Via Colorized History.)
Graham Greene by Yousuf Karsh
Joyce
James Joyce. Scratchboard portrait by Mark Summers, whose work you will recognize from Barnes & Noble shopping bags, among other places.
The Master
Henry James, age 63
Rye, England, 1906
Photogravure by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882-1966