In Excel 365 you can paste pictures inside cell. Then XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP works.
I never worked with Excel 2019, so I'm hesitant to say it will work.
Attaching the file nevertheless.
It's the same principle. But it involves some set-up of named ranges, yes.
I'm unfortunately not familiar with the features of 2019 version, and the Microsoft help pages I found, do not explicitly say it's excluded from versions.
Can you check if you have this option "Pictures" -> "Place in Cell"? If so, then my first solution might work too.