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Oil portrait of an older man in a dark coat and white cravat before a red drape and a dim landscape.

James Fenimore Cooper

Charles Loring Elliott, 1860

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark military uniform with gold epaulettes, turned to the left against a muted background.

Henry Larcom Abbot

Nahum Ball Onthank, 1861

Painting of an elderly man in a black gown holding a palette and brush, seated before a warm, loosely painted background.

Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1930

Painting of an elderly seated man in a red robe gesturing to two young men beside an easel in an artist's studio.

Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin

Frank William Wilkin, 1810

Oil portrait of a man in a felt hat and blue jacket smoking a pipe, with a green bottle in a warm interior.

Arvid Frederick Nyholm Self-Portrait

Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1920

Full-length oil portrait of a man with a mustache in a dark suit and cream waistcoat, beside a red curtain and open book.

Boies Penrose

John St. Helier Lander, 1920

Bust-length oil portrait of a man with reddish hair and blue eyes, wearing a dark coat and white frilled cravat against a bro

Unidentified Man

William Wirt, 1800

Oil portrait of a standing bald man in a dark coat beside a drafting table with brass dividers and a model boat.

John Ericsson

Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1910

Oil painting of a bearded man in fur-trimmed coat writing at a desk in a lamplit wooden cabin, with a sleeping companion behi

Elisha Kent Kane

Thomas Hicks, 1850

Portrait of a young man with dark curly hair, white lace collar and brown coat, gazing upward against a dark background.

John Howard Payne

John Wesley Jarvis, 1810

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark coat, yellow waistcoat and white cravat, seated before a brown background.

Louis McLane

Charles Bird King, 1810

Oil portrait of a painter in buckskin holding a palette, with two Native American figures and a tipi behind him.

George Catlin

William Fisk, 1840

Oil portrait of a uniformed military officer holding white gloves and a sword against a dark olive background.

George Brinton McClellan

Julian Scott, 1880

Full-length portrait of a man in a red coat and lace cuffs, hand resting on leather books beside a marble table and green dra

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer

John Hesselius, 1770

Seated elderly man in dark suit and white cravat in red chair before red drapery, painted 1820.

John Marshall

William James Hubard, 1820

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark military uniform with gold buttons, turned to the left against a brown background.

William Starke Rosecrans

Samuel Woodson Price, 1861

Painting of a mounted officer in blue uniform raising a sabre on a galloping black horse across a smoky battlefield.

Philip Henry Sheridan

Thomas Buchanan Read, 1861

Oval oil portrait of a mustached man in a dark coat and white collar against a brown background.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1860

Oil portrait of a man in a dark waistcoat, white cravat and open brown greatcoat, turned left against a grey background.

Marquis De Lafayette

Ary Scheffer, 1820

Oval portrait of a young man with dark curled hair, wearing a green coat and white cravat against a dark red drapery.

Benjamin West

James Smith, 1770

Oil portrait of a seated bearded man in a black suit with a green upholstered chair and red drapery behind him.

William Henry Aspinwall

Daniel Huntington, 1870

Oval portrait of a man in a blue coat and gray wig against a dark background, within a gold frame.

Thomas Hancock

John Singleton Copley, 1750

Full-length 1840 portrait of a standing man in a black cloak beside a red chair, table, and column.

Henry Clay

Chester Harding, 1840

Oil portrait of an older bald, bearded man in pince-nez and dark coat against a red background with gilded ornament.

John Brooks Henderson

Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, 1890

Oil portrait of an elderly man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Robert Richford Roberts

John Neagle, 1830

Elizabeth Linn Brown

William Dunlap, 1800

Portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, standing before red drapery with papers and books at his side.

DeWitt Clinton

John Wesley Jarvis, 1810

Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair in a black coat and white collar, set in an oval frame against a dark backgroun

John Jordan Crittenden

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

William Morris Hunt

Charles Monginot, 1840

Seated woman in a black dress holding a yellow flower, in front of green drapery, with a floral cushion on a parquet floor.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Maximilien Colin, 1890