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Oil portrait of an older man with grey curly hair in a dark coat and plaid neckcloth against a dark background.

Zachary Taylor

William Garl Browne Jr, 1840

Full-length portrait of a standing man in black with white hair, hand on a document at a desk beside a globe and column.

James Madison

Thomas Sully, 1800

Oil painting of a uniformed officer on a galloping white horse, with palms, a rocky stream and hills behind him.

Zachary Taylor

Full-length painted portrait of a standing man with white hair and mustache, wearing a dark suit and bow tie.

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

John White Alexander, 1910

Oil portrait of a man with wavy auburn hair and sideburns, in a dark jacket and black cravat, against a brown background.

Joseph Clay Neal

John Neagle, 1830

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a black jacket, tan waistcoat and bow tie, against a brown background.

Unidentified Man

Thomas Hicks, 1850

Painted portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and red sash, with a mountain landscape and cloudy sky behind him.

John Charles Frémont

William Smith Jewett, 1861

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a dark suit resting his hand on a book on a red-draped table.

Robert Milligan McLane

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1880

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a dark suit and black cravat against red drapery.

William Morris Meredith

William Morris Meredith, 1840

Oil portrait of a smiling woman in a brown hat, blue coat and purple scarf against a dark green background.

Bessie Potter Vonnoh

Robert Vonnoh, 1890

Portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a green coat holding papers, with a harbor and ship visible behind him.

Gulian Crommelin Verplanck

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Bret Harte

John Pettie, 1880

Oil portrait of an older bearded man in spectacles and a gray suit against a brown background, by John Singer Sargent.

Charles Herbert Woodbury

John Singer Sargent, 1920

Half-length 1840 portrait of a young man with swept dark hair, wearing a brown jacket and white cravat, gazing left.

James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait

James Reid Lambdin, 1840

Chief Joseph

Cyrenius Hall, 1870

Oil portrait of a man with wavy hair in a dark coat, black cravat and white shirt against an olive background.

Salmon P. Chase

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1860

Oil portrait of an elderly clergyman in dark robes with a gold cross, gesturing before gold drapery and sky.

Jean Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus

Oval oil portrait of a man with brown hair in a dark coat and black bow tie against an olive background.

William Austin Burt

William Austin Burt, 1840

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, seated against a dark brown background.

Gustavus Franklin Swift

Ralph Elmer Clarkson, 1900

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

John Adams

Gilbert Stuart, 1810

Oval miniature portrait of an older bald man with white mustache and spectacles, in a dark suit and bow tie, in a gilt frame.

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall

Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white gown and sheer shawl, holding red roses and a fan, against a dark background.

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Emile Alexay, 1920

Oval oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair in a black coat, white waistcoat and black bow tie.

Thomas Hart Benton

Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle, 1850

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a black coat and white cravat, hands resting on an open book.

Francis Asbury

John Paradise, 1810

Painted portrait of an older man with grey hair and beard, wearing a dark brown coat, hands clasped, against a dark backgroun

Henry Ward Ranger

Alphonse Jongers, 1920

Oil portrait of a woman with curled brown hair in a black dress and white lace collar, seated beside a draped table.

Margaret Spear Smith

Gilbert Stuart, 1800

Oval oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark coat and white collar, against a brown background.

Henry Clay

Henry F. Darby, 1840

Portrait of a woman in a red dress with curled hair, seated before olive drapery and a garden landscape with trees.

Juliana Westray Wood

Rembrandt Peale, 1810

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit and blue tie holding papers at a desk against a dark background.

Herbert Hoover

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1920

John Paul Jones

Comtesse de Lowendahl Charlotte-Marguerite de Bourbon, 1780