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American

12,325 works

Painting of the white steam towboat John Birkbeck with a black smokestack and flags, moving across rippling water.

Towboat "John Birkbeck"

James Bard, 1854

Painting of a lively country dance in a plank-floored room with a fiddler, dancing couple, dogs, and onlookers beside a brick

Country Dance

Martin Edgar Ferrill, 1883

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark coat, yellow vest and white cravat, resting his hand on a red chair.

Biel Le Doyt

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1827

Painting of a man in a red robe standing in a golden boat on rapids beside rocky cliffs under a stormy, glowing sky.

The Voyage of Life: Manhood

Thomas Cole, 1842

Oil portrait of a man with light hair in a black coat and white cravat, one hand resting on a red-cushioned chair.

Paul Smith Palmer

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1835/1838

Seated man in dark suit beside a laboratory table with glass apparatus, a globe, maps and a dog.

Man of Science

Unknown artist, 1839

Painted portrait of a young girl in a red polka-dot dress holding a grey toy rabbit, with drapery and landscape behind her.

Little Miss Fairfield

William Matthew Prior, 1850

Painting of a bay trotting horse pulling a red sulky driven by a man in a cap along a racetrack with a flag.

Budd Doble Driving Goldsmith Maid at Belmont Driving Park

Charles S. Humphreys, 1876

Polar bear attacking a seal on ice floes in a green sea, with a ship and icebergs on the horizon.

Law of the Wild

Charles S. Raleigh, 1881

Oil portrait of a woman in black with lace collar seated with two toddlers in white dresses holding oranges.

Mrs. Paul Smith Palmer and Her Twins

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1835/1838

Painting of a southern coastal town with a Victorian house, a sailboat on calm water, a pier, and palm-lined islands.

Southern Resort Town

Dana Smith, c. 1880

Portrait of a seated woman in a red dress with lace trim, holding an open book, with a landscape window behind her.

Sarah Ogden Gustin

Joshua Johnson, c. 1805

Portrait of a young child in a blue jacket and ruffled collar beside a basket of fruit and bread on a stone table.

Boy with a Basket of Fruit

Unknown artist, c. 1790

Naive painting of many horses grazing and running across a green pasture with a rider, snowy mountains, and a sun in the sky.

Spring on the Range

Unknown artist, fourth quarter 19th century

Portrait of a man in a dark coat and lace collar with a red sash, holding a cane beside books and a red drape.

Samuel Eells

Unknown artist, c. 1800

Painting of figures cooking over a campfire beside a conical tepee, with a river, forest and hills behind.

Indians Cooking Maize

Unknown artist, second half 19th century

Two young girls in black aprons, one in blue holding cherries and one in red holding a cherry sprig, against a brown backgrou

Sisters in Black Aprons

Unknown artist, c. 1835/1840

The Proud Mother

Unknown artist, c. 1810

Winter scene with a mounted officer, soldiers, an American flag, a log cabin and a horse-drawn sleigh in snow.

Washington at Valley Forge

Unknown artist, mid 19th century

Oil portrait of a young child in a blue dress seated on rocks, holding a hammer, with a garden landscape behind.

George Washington Deal

Robert Street, 1834

Oil portrait of two young sisters with curly brown hair in matching red dresses, one embracing the other.

The Leland Sisters

Thomas Sully, c. 1830

Painting of Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice with two large flags and a crowd gathered in the square on a festival day.

The Flags, Saint Mark's, Venice - Fête Day

Eugène Vail, c. 1903

Painting of a river winding through a valley below a grove of trees, with a woman in red and a child in the foreground.

View of the Tiber near Perugia

George Inness, 1872-1874

Painting of a sailing ship with an American flag passing a stone fort on a green bay at sunset.

Bay of New York, Sunset

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Painting of a tall ship in a harbor under a glowing, stormy sunset sky, with a brick fort and village on the shore.

Threatening Sky, Bay of New York

Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century

Trompe l'oeil painting of a violin and bow hanging over torn sheet music on a weathered green door with brass hardware.

The Old Violin

John Frederick Peto, c. 1890

Loose brushwork street scene of villagers and a woman with a basket beside a red-roofed building and boat masts.

Volendam Street Scene

Robert Henri, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white dress, chin resting on her hand, with curled hair and a floral ornament.

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (Mrs. Lawrence Lewis)

Gilbert Stuart, 1804

Portrait of a man in a white wig and brown coat with gold buttons, holding a quill pen and paper, against green.

Harrison Gray

John Singleton Copley, c. 1767

Oil portrait of a woman with dark upswept hair, white blouse and lilac collar, against a grey background.

Harriet Husson Carville (Mrs. James G. Carville)

Thomas Eakins, 1904

Painting of a sunlit village of stone houses with red tiled roofs, fields and trees beyond, under a pale sun.

Midsummer Twilight

Willard Metcalf, c. 1890

Painting of a calm lake beneath wooded mountains at dusk, with a seated figure in the foreground and a small boat on the wate

View on Lake George

John William Casilear, 1857