New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

3,433 works

Featured

Filters

Works per page

Color

Shape

Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich

J. Rogers, 1850

Monochrome print of a man in period dress in an oval frame, with a carved head and oak wreath above and PATRIAE PATER below.

George Washington, Patriae Pater

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Lithograph of a uniformed man on a rearing grey horse, pointing forward before a smoky battlefield with soldiers.

General Harrison, the Washington of the West

Full-length engraved portrait of a man in naval uniform with a sword, leaning on rocks, with sailing ships at sea behind him.

William Carnegie

Jr J. Hibbert, 1800

Lithograph of a crowded 19th-century city intersection with shop signs, street vendors, dancers, a carriage and a pig.

Five Points, 1827

McSpedon & Baker, 1850

Engraved page with a map of Pensacola Bay forts above a street scene of Montgomery, Alabama, with a domed state house.

Montgomery, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida

Harper's Weekly, 1860

Engraving of six riders on two horses on a hillside beside an overturned wagon and a fallen man, with a farmhouse in the dist

Six on Two Horses

Wilbur F. Osler, 1870

Engraved group portrait of Lincoln, Winfield Scott and officers gathered around a table with a map, 1861.

Winfield Scott and Generals

H. B. Hall, 1861

Lithograph portrait of a man in a top hat and spectacles, standing before a building with shuttered windows and a signboard.

A Tribute to Worth by his Friends

Charles Fenderich, 1830

Oval engraved portrait of a man in a military coat with epaulette, powdered hair, and cloudy landscape behind him.

Horatio Gates

Mezzotint portrait of a man in powdered wig and military uniform with epaulette and sash, with printed inscription below.

Robert Monckton

Thomas Hudson, 1750

Pink sheet music cover for The Little Duchess featuring a photograph of Anna Held in a large hat and flowing gown.

What Are the Wild Waves Saying?

Anna Held, 1900

Hand-colored lithograph of a wounded officer lying beside a horse, with two officers standing over him in a wooded battlefiel

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold

Samuel Ringgold, 1840

Sheet music cover for The Two Roses with a photo of a woman in a lace gown, green art nouveau border and rose motifs.

There's Not a Thing I Wouldn't Do

Hand-colored lithograph of dancer Fanny Elssler in pink costume with black lace skirts, arms outstretched, on grass with flow

Fanny Elssler

John T, 1830

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a small vignette of two embracing figures and ships below.

Marquis de Lafayette

Nicolas Maurin, 1770

Hand-colored print of General Washington in blue and gold uniform holding the Declaration of Independence, with a horse, cann

General Washington

Noël Le Mire, 1780

Hand-colored portrait of a standing Native American man in feathered headdress and fringed robe, holding a rifle.

Wa-na-ta

Charles Bird King, 1830

Circular hand-colored allegorical print of American independence with medallion portraits, a Native American figure, ships, a

Indépendence des États-Unis

Louis Roger, 1780

Engraving of a man descending steps from an altar toward a farm, with an eagle, shield, and fruit in the foreground.

General Washington's Resignation

Alexander Lawson, 1790

Sheet music cover for I Like My Old Home Town showing three photographic portraits of Harry Lauder in Scottish costume.

I Like My Old Home Town

Harry Lauder, 1920

Engraving of men searching a schooner deck with axes and tools, with rigging and a wooden barrel behind them.

The Mayor and Police of Norfolk Searching Capt. Fountain’s Schooner

Edmund Birckhead Bensell, 1870

Hand-colored lithograph of a dancer in a light blue costume and feathered hat before gabled houses, sheet music cover.

Fanny Elssler

Fanny Elssler, 1830

Hand-colored lithograph of a mounted officer amid fallen soldiers, a cannon, and an American flag under a palm tree.

The Death of Major Ringgold at the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, 1946

Kelloggs & Thayer, 1840

Engraving of a battle scene with a cannon, a rearing horse and soldiers tending a wounded officer on the ground.

Palo Alto, Death of Major Ringgold

John C. McRae, 1840

Colored print of the neoclassical Patent Office in Washington, D.C., with columns, a flag, and horse-drawn carriages on the s

Patent Office

Foster & Reynolds, 1920

Multi-panel engraving of Black Union soldiers and workers in camp, trenches, a battle scene, and daily labor tasks.

The Negro in the War - Various Employments of the Colored Men in the Federal Army

C. E. F. Hillen, 1860

Hand-coloured print of a large tipi encampment on a plain, with mounted riders, horses, dogs and flat-topped bluffs.

Encampment of Piekann Indians

Karl Bodmer, 1840

Colored lithograph of an orange fish with a caricatured man's head holding a money bag, with a sailing ship on calm water.

Gold Fish

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Full-length portrait of a man in feathered headdress and fringed robe holding a feathered staff, in warm earth tones.

Mah-to-toh-pa

John M. McGahey, 1830