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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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

Charles Wilkes

Samuel Bell Waugh, 1870

Oil portrait of a man in a brown coat and striped waistcoat, with a dark landscape of trees and a waterfall behind him.

Rembrandt Peale

Charles Willson Peale, 1810

Oil portrait of a seated elderly man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat, hands clasped, brown background.

Enoch Crosby

Samuel Lovett Waldo, 1830

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and red armchair, holding a folded paper and eyeglasses.

Julius Bien

George Da Maduro Peixotto, 1880

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat, against a dark brown background.

Andrew Jackson

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860

Painted portrait of a man in feathered headdress and fur garment, scowling with a raised fist against a dark background.

Edwin Forrest in the Role of Metamora

Frederick Styles Agate, 1820

Half-length portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and monocle holding a paintbrush, with a grey harbor and masts behind him

J. A. M. Whistler

Walter Greaves, 1870

Portrait of a seated man in a wide-brimmed hat and grey jacket against a purple background, painted in loose washes.

Joel Chandler Harris

Lucy May Stanton, 1910

Jean Baptiste de Rochambeau

Joseph-Désiré Court

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man with white hair and wire glasses, in a brown jacket and orange tie, against a dark bac

Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 1910

Full-length portrait of a bearded naval officer in dark dress uniform with gold trim, holding a cap and sword.

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

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

Samuel Miles

Gilbert Stuart, 1800

Oval bust portrait of a woman in a white ruffled bonnet and pale dress, against a muted blue-brown background.

Ann Elliott Morris

Ann Elliott Morris, 1800

Half-length oil portrait of a man with dark curled hair in a black coat, white shirt and bow tie, against a brown background.

Charles Dewitt Fillmore

James A. Bogle, c. 1817 - 12 Oct, 1840

Seated man in dark suit writing at a desk with papers, in a green-walled room with framed paintings and a flag.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry Salem Hubbell, 1930

Painting of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit holding eyeglasses, seated against a brown background.

Edward Everett Hale

Philip Leslie Hale, 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark military uniform with medals, against a dark background.

Thomas William Sweeny

John Randolph Stites, 1861

Oil portrait of a mustached man in a dark suit, reddish tie and white collar, against a dark brown background.

Richard Alexander F. Penrose, Jr.

Albert Rosenthal

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered white wig, pale blue coat and lace cravat, in a pierced copper frame.

Henry Cruger

Luke Sullivan, 1770

Oil portrait of a man in a dark naval uniform with gold braid and epaulette, white cravat, against a brown background.

Stephen Decatur

Charles Bird King, 1810

Paul Wayland Bartlett

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1880

Painted portrait of an older man with grey hair and moustache in a tan military uniform with gold collar insignia.

John Joseph Pershing

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 1920

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a brown clerical robe and cross, seated in a red chair.

Reverend John Carroll

Rev. John Carroll, 1800

Oil portrait of a seated man with a palette and brush beside an easel painting of animals in a landscape.

Edward Hicks Painting the Peaceable Kingdom

Thomas Hicks, 1830

Portrait of an older bearded man in a dark suit and pince-nez, standing at a desk with books and papers, before a gilded cloc

James Robert Mann

Gari Melchers, 1920

Oil portrait of a man with short dark hair in a dark blue suit and tie against a brown background.

John Jay Chapman

Alfred Quinton Collins, 1900

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

William Hull

Gilbert Stuart, 1810

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark double-breasted uniform with gold epaulettes against a cloudy sky.

Winfield Scott

Robert Walter Weir, 1850

Oil portrait of a seated man in dark suit and white collar, hands resting on an open book, against a dark interior.

Anson Phelps Stokes

Julius Rolshoven, 1900

Oil portrait of a man in a flat cap and tweed jacket holding a cigarette, against a dark brown background.

Newton Booth Tarkington

John White Alexander, 1910