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Oil portrait of a bald, bearded man in a dark suit against a warm brown background.

Henry George

George de Forest Brush, 1880

Oil portrait of a man in a cream jacket, white collar and blue tie, arms folded, against a dark brown background.

Francis Patrick Garvan

Philip de László, 1920

James Garfield

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1880

Oil portrait of a young man with dark wavy hair and a brown coat against a dark brown background.

John Lothrop Motley

Thomas Phillips, 1830

Oil portrait of a seated elderly man with white hair, dark suit and blue bow tie, holding a book in a carved armchair.

Joseph Henry

Thomas Le Clear, 1870

Oval portrait of an elderly man with white hair and beard, dark jacket and bow tie, in a gold frame.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Theodore Wust, 1870

Oil portrait of a standing gray-haired man with a mustache, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, hand in pocket.

Charles Greeley Abbot

Samantha Littlefield Huntley, 1920

Oil portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat before a dark background.

James Monroe

John Vanderlyn, 1810

Portrait of a seated man in a red turban and blue coat, pointing to a sheet of invented letters beside a quill.

Sequoyah

Henry Inman, 1820

Oil portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark coat and white collar, gazing to the side against a brown background.

John C. Calhoun

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Oil portrait of an older man with grey hair in a dark coat and white cravat against an olive-brown background.

James Monroe

Chester Harding, 1820

Oil portrait of a seated man in black with white cravat, holding a metal jar beside an electrical machine, red drapery behind

David Wiley

Charles Peale Polk, 1800

Half-length oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a black coat and cravat against an olive background.

James Pollard Espy

Thomas Sully, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, seated beside an open book with a green drape behind him.

Valentine Mott

Valentine Mott, 1820

William McKinley

Adolfo Müller-Ury, 1861

Oval oil portrait of a man with short curly hair in a black coat, white shirt and black cravat against a dark background.

John Russwurm

John Russwurm, 1850

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair and a full white beard in a brown coat against a red background.

Samuel F. B. Morse

Edward Lind Morse, 1890

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark double-breasted coat, white cravat, and red chair, against an olive background

John C. Calhoun

Charles Bird King, 1810

Oil portrait of a young girl with auburn curls in a blue dress holding a vase of pink and yellow flowers, 1870.

Edith Wharton

Edward Harrison May, 1870

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white beard and spectacles in a dark military uniform, holding a cane.

Richard Delafield

Charles Courtney Curran, 1910

Charles William Eliot

Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, 1920

Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bird King, 1830

Oil portrait of a bald man in round spectacles and a black robe with white cravat against a dark brown background.

Joseph Story

Chester Harding, 1820

Portrait of a bald man in a dark coat and white cravat holding an open book, with bookshelves and a red curtain behind him.

Reverend Justus Henry Christian Helmuth

John Eckstein, 1800

Oil portrait of an older bearded man with gray hair in a gray coat with gold stars on the collar, dark background.

Robert E. Lee

Edward Caledon Bruce, 1861

Oil portrait of an elderly white-bearded man in a dark military coat with gold collar stars against a red background.

Robert E. Lee

George Bagby Matthews, 1861

Painting of a man in a dark suit and pince-nez descending stone steps, holding a top hat, with a shadowy serpent behind him.

Theodore Roosevelt

Sigismund De Ivanowski, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat before red drapery, with a carved chair arm at lower left.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1840

Half-length oil portrait of a man with swept dark hair in a dark coat and white ruffled cravat, against a brown background.

Thomas Say

Joseph Wood, 1810

Oil portrait of a man with brown hair and sideburns in a dark coat and white collar against a brown background.

Stephen Fuller Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin, 1840

John Tyler

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and cravat against a green and ochre background.

Millard Fillmore

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

Oil portrait of a seated man in black coat with a book labeled Can Slavery As It Is, red drapery and stormy landscape behind.

James Armstrong Thome

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1830

Portrait of a man in a powdered wig and blue coat, hand resting on a document, with a classical statue beside him.

Thomas Jefferson

Mather Brown, 1780

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat, red waistcoat and white cravat against a brown background, painted in 1740.

Lewis Morris

John Wollaston, 1740

Seated man in dark coat in red armchair before green drape, with bust, globe and quill pen on a desk beside him.

Daniel Webster

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Portrait of an elderly man with long white hair in a reddish-brown coat, holding an open book against a dark background.

William Samuel Johnson

John Wesley Jarvis, 1800

Full-length portrait of a man in a black suit leaning on a carved wooden cabinet against a dark background.

William McKinley

August Benziger, 1861

Oil portrait of a man in a black coat, cream waistcoat and white cravat against a dark background.

James Monroe

James Herring, 1820

Full-length oil portrait of a standing man in fringed traditional dress with a walking stick, against a stormy sky.

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)

Thomas Hicks, 1860

Rubens Peale

Rembrandt Peale, 1800

Oval portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark suit and bow tie, against a green background, in a gilt frame.

Abraham Lincoln

John Henry Brown, 1860

Portrait of an elderly man with white hair and spectacles in a black coat and white cravat, seated beside a red chair.

Andrew Jackson

Jr James Tooley, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit and black cravat, hand resting on papers, against a brown interior backdrop.

Andrew Johnson

Washington Bogart Cooper, 1860

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark suit and blue cravat against a brown background.

Joseph Henry

Henry Ulke, 1880

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man seated in a carved armchair, with a book, newspaper and spectacles beside him.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Morris Goldstein, 1880

Oil portrait of a young woman with curled dark hair wearing a red shawl against a dark brown background.

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait

Sarah Miriam Peale, 1810

John Rutledge

John Trumbull, 1790

Oil portrait of a man with dark curly hair in a brown coat and black cravat against a brown background.

Solomon White Roberts

Manuel Joachim de Franca, 1830

Oil portrait of a man with a mustache, dark jacket and bow tie, against a loose olive-green background.

Cass Gilbert

Robert Bolling Brandegee, 1880

Oil portrait of a man with light hair in a dark uniform with gold epaulettes against a brown background.

Leonard Wood

John Singer Sargent, 1900

Stonewall Jackson

J. W. King, 1861

Miniature portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark coat and black cravat, in a gold frame.

Benjamin Tappan

Washington Blanchard, 1830

Portrait of a seated man in a red velvet suit beside a table with documents, quill and rug, in a gilded chair.

Henry Laurens

John Singleton Copley, 1780

Bust-length portrait of a man in a brown coat and white collar against a warm brown background, painted in 1860.

Washington Irving

Charles Loring Elliott, 1860

Oil portrait of a bearded man in spectacles and dark suit writing in a ledger at a green draped table, seated in a red chair.

Carl Schurz

Daniel Huntington, 1861

Oil portrait of a woman with wavy blonde hair, pearls and a brown fur stole against a dark background.

Pauline Morton Sabin

Philip de László, 1920

Miniature portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a black coat and white cravat against a green background.

Gilbert Stuart

Sarah Goodridge, 1820

Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair in a grey coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1780

Oval oil portrait of a gray-haired man in a black coat and white cravat, seated in a green chair.

Thomas Paine

Laurent Dabos, 1790

Portrait of a man in a dark coat with red facings, sash, and tall embroidered black hat, before a wooded landscape.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Henry Benbridge, 1770

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark suit and purple tie against a dark background.

Adolph Ochs

Philip de László, 1920

Richard Henry Lee

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Portrait of a man in a powdered wig and red embroidered coat, with green drapery and a distant sea view with ships.

William Shirley

Thomas Hudson, 1750