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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

3,247 works

Seated young man in dark coat and yellow breeches before a tree in a wooded landscape, oil portrait.

Master Rees Goring Thomas

Ralph Earl, ca. 1783-84

Painting of a seated woman in green dress with an infant and four children before red drapery and a landscape.

Mrs. Noah Smith and Her Children

Ralph Earl, 1798

Four children in period dress stand in a room with a patterned carpet; one girl holds a hammer and another a cat.

The Alling Children

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, ca. 1839

Half-length oil portrait of a bearded man with curly hair and wire-rimmed glasses, wearing a dark coat against a brown backgr

Mathew B. Brady

Charles Loring Elliott, 1857

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a white dress with puffed sleeves, holding a book, standing on a patterned rug.

Girl of the Bangs-Phelps Family

Erastus Salisbury Field, ca. 1848

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

Sharp Delany

Robert Field, 1799

Oval miniature portrait of a young man with curly dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set in a copper frame.

Robert Stuart

Robert Field, 1804

Painting of a young woman with dark curly hair seated in a field at dusk, wearing a white blouse and red skirt.

The Quadroon

George Fuller, 1880

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white cap and brown satin dress, with a landscape view behind her.

Mrs. Richard Galloway

John Hesselius, 1764

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress with lace collar, fur stole and flowers in hair, against a dark wooded backgrou

Anna Watson Stuart

Daniel Huntington, ca. 1862

Grayscale portrait of a young child in a dark jacket with a lace collar, holding a lantern and beside a fluffy white dog.

Nicoll Havens Dering

Daniel Huntington, 1871

Miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a blue coat, white cravat and yellow waistcoat, against a green background.

Benjamin Moore McVickar

Charles C. Ingham, ca. 1825

Half-length portrait of a gray-haired officer in a dark uniform with gold epaulettes, holding a spyglass before a wooded land

General Andrew Jackson

John Wesley Jarvis, ca. 1819

Portrait of a seated woman in a white dress and sheer veil, with red drapery and a landscape behind her.

Mrs. Robert Dickey (Anne Brown)

John Wesley Jarvis, 1807-10

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a green lace gown holding a child in a white bonnet and dress with a rattle.

Mrs. Jacob Hurd and Child

William Johnston, ca. 1762

Oil portrait of a bearded man in black costume with a white ruff collar and gold chain against a dark background.

Worthington Whittredge

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1856

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat, set before a pale landscape.

Robert Macomb

Edward Greene Malbone, ca. 1806

Portrait of a man in a gray wig and blue coat beside a carved chair, with red drapery behind him.

Jeremiah Platt

John Mare, 1767

Oil portrait of an older man in a dark coat holding a cane, standing before a tree with a river landscape at dusk.

Henry Clay

Theodore Sidney Moise, 1843

Oil portrait of a man in a black coat and white cravat against a red wall with star and vine pattern, by Morse.

De Witt Clinton

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1826

Oval 1852 painting of an elderly seated man with a cane and three children beside a marble table with a bust.

Great-Grand-Father's Tale of the Revolution - A Portrait of Reverend Zachariah Greene

William Sidney Mount, 1852

Portrait of a seated man in a dark blue coat with a pen, beside a book titled Stuart's Athens and an architectural view.

John Haviland

John Neagle, 1828

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a blue military coat with red facings and a silver epaulette, in a gilt frame.

General Henry Knox

Charles Willson Peale, 1778

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered hair in a blue coat and white cravat, set in a gold frame.

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1777

Portrait of a woman in a yellow silk gown with lace cuffs, pearl necklace and floral hair ornament, against a dark background

Margaret Strachan (Mrs. Thomas Harwood)

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1771

Oil portrait of an older woman in a lace bonnet with a young girl in pink, seated together against a dark background.

Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis

Charles Willson Peale, 1777-80

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with upswept dark hair, white feather, lavender dress, in an ornate gold frame.

Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer)

Charles Willson Peale, ca. 1790

Seated man in tan coat beside red drapery and books, with a sailing ship on water visible through a window.

Samuel Mifflin

Charles Willson Peale, 1777-80

Seated man in brown coat with powdered hair beside red chair, with sea, sailboats and lighthouse visible through window.

Thomas Willing

Charles Willson Peale, 1782

Oval miniature portrait of a grey-haired man in a brown coat and green waistcoat against a dark green background.

Richard Thomas III

James Peale, 1796