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1822, Ludwig Tieck, translated by Connop Thirlwall, The Pictures:
Erich thought he observed a likeness between the stranger and a relative of Walther; this led them into the chapter of likenesses, and the strange way in which certain forms repeat themselves in families, often most distinctly in the most remote ramifications.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
At this moment Mr. Glentworth's eye fell on a little pencilled sketch of himself. In her joy at seeing the original, Isabella had forgotten the copy. Again a bright scarlet passed over her face; and her companion, from that necessity of saying something which originates more subjects of conversation than any thing else, observed, "I did not know you had a talent for taking likenesses."
1857, April 25, Alfred Lord Tennyson, letter to Reginald Southey, in Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. (editors), The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II: 1851-1870, Belknap Press (1987), →ISBN, page 171:
I have this morning received the photographs of my two boys. The eldest is very well likenessed: the other, perhaps, not so well.
1868, November, advertisement, in Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume XXXII, Number 21, after page 320:
Every member of the family is as faithfully likenessed as the photographs, which were given to the artist from the hands of the General himself, have power to express.