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American

12,325 works

Painting of villagers skating and playing hockey on a frozen pond, with a sleigh, stone houses and snowy mountains behind.

Skating Scene

John Toole, c. 1835

Painting of a calico cat with two kittens playing with pink yarn beside a red ball of yarn and white lace.

Cat and Kittens

Unknown artist, c. 1872/1883

Anonymous late 18th-century group portrait of a family with seated parents, infants, children in white and blue, and a patter

The Cheney Family

Unknown artist, c. 1795

Folk painting of a family burial ground with white headstones, figures, and a river with a steamboat and hills beyond.

Family Burying Ground

Unknown artist, c. 1840

Portrait of a woman in a green dress holding a wooden box inscribed MARTHA, with books and a river landscape behind her.

Martha

Unknown artist, c. 1835

Portrait of a woman in a lace cap holding a toddler in a white dress with a pink rose, against a brown background.

Aphia Salisbury Rich and Baby Edward

Milton W. Hopkins, c. 1833

Painting of a hillside village with about twenty-two houses, a white church steeple, picket fences, and bare trees under a cl

Twenty-two Houses and a Church

Unknown artist, mid 19th century

Naive painting of a riverside village with Victorian houses, a church, steamboat, sailboats, and a hunter on the bank.

Village by the River

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 19th century

Dark-toned self-portrait of a man in a hat and dark jacket against a brown background, with one hand visible at right.

Gold and Brown: Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1896-1898

Full-length portrait of a man in a dark suit holding a cane, against a muted gray and brown interior background.

George W. Vanderbilt

James McNeill Whistler, 1897/1903

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a grey coat and white wig, leaning on a stone pedestal before a dusky landscape.

Epes Sargent

John Singleton Copley, c. 1760

Portrait of two young sisters in white dresses with straw hats and pink ribbons, standing before a stone balustrade.

The Ragan Sisters

Jacob Eichholtz, 1818

Painting of a naval battle with burning ships, smoke-filled sky, crowded boats and struggling sailors in choppy water.

The Battle of La Hogue

Benjamin West, 1778

Painting of a young child in a blue cradle wearing a red dress and green bodice, holding a rattle, with a star-patterned blan

Baby in Blue Cradle

Unknown artist, c. 1840

Two children in blue and green dresses stand in a painted interior with a doll, toy house, and red curtain.

Mary and Francis Wilcox

Joseph Whiting Stock, 1845

Full-length portrait of a boy in a blue coat and green waistcoat with a spaniel dog beside him and a gold curtain.

Boy in Blue Coat

Unknown artist, c. 1730

Full-length portrait of a young man in a red coat holding a pink flower, with a pug dog on a checkered floor.

Jonathan Bentham

Unknown artist, c. 1725

Painting of a young child in an orange dress standing beside a dark rocking horse with a white mane, with a red curtain behin

Child with Rocking Horse

Unknown artist, c. 1850

Naive painting of a Civil War battle with cavalry, infantry, an American flag, smoke, and fallen soldiers and horses on a gre

Civil War Battle

Unknown artist, 1861 or after

Painting of five children in a group portrait, one holding an open book and another holding a calico cat, against a green bac

Five Children of the Budd Family

Unknown artist, c. 1818

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress, lace collar and turban, with a red paisley shawl against a dark background.

Lady in White

Ammi Phillips, c. 1820

Lady in a White Mob Cap

Benjamin Greenleaf, c. 1805

Naive painting of a couple on a manor terrace overlooking a river with sailboats, a carriage, a rider and a fountain.

Leaving the Manor House

Unknown artist, c. 1850/1855

Oil portrait of an older man with white powdered hair, dark coat and lace jabot, turned to the right against a dark backgroun

George Washington

Edward Savage, c. 1796

Group portrait of a red-coated officer with a bay horse and two women in white and black before a wooded landscape.

Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch

John Singleton Copley, 1800/1801

Oil portrait of a woman in a blue bonnet, white dress and orange shawl, against a dark cloudy background.

Henrietta Marchant Liston (Mrs. Robert Liston)

Gilbert Stuart, 1800

Portrait of a woman in a blue dress and pink shawl holding pearls, with a tree and landscape behind her.

Elizabeth Fulford Welshman

John Greenwood, 1749

Family group portrait by Copley: two men in wigs, a woman in blue on a red sofa, and several children, with a landscape behin

The Copley Family

John Singleton Copley, 1776/1777

Oil portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark fur-collared coat and white cravat against a dark background.

John Smith Warner (?)

Unknown artist, c. 1827

Oval portrait miniature of a man with dark curly hair in a black coat and white cravat, in a gold frame.

Portrait of John Clark

William M. S. Doyle, 1814

Pair of oval portrait miniatures of a man in a black coat and a woman in a black dress with lace collar, in gold frames.

Pair of Portrait Miniatures

Anson Dickinson, c. 1810

Oval portrait of a woman in a blue dress and lace collar holding flowers, with a stone urn and fountain behind her.

Lucy Tappan Bowen (Mrs. Henry C. Bowen)

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1859