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Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress, lace collar and white head wrap, with embroidered shawl and red drapery.

Betsey Colt Foot

Ezra Ames, 1810

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a brown coat with fur collar against a dark background.

Daniel Boone

Chester Harding, 1820

Oval oil portrait of a man with dark curly hair in a dark coat and white cravat against a green backdrop.

Daniel Webster

George Linen, 1830

Oval portrait of an elderly man with white hair, dark coat and striped wrap against a dark background.

Thomas McKenney

Charles Loring Elliott, 1850

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

John Vaughan

Thomas Sully, 1810

Painted portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and glasses, hand resting on a desk with papers, blue curtain behind.

George E. Haynes

Laura Wheeler Waring, 1940

Oil portrait of a heavyset man with a mustache in a dark suit against a dark green background.

William Howard Taft

Robert Lee MacCameron, 1900

Oil portrait of a seated woman with short dark hair against a floral patterned wall, painted in loose brushwork.

Margery Williams

James Bolivar Manson, 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a brown coat and yellow waistcoat, resting his hand on a red chair.

George Clymer

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Charles Lee

Cephas Thompson, 1800

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and shawl and rose dress, gazing upward against a dark background.

Patience Lovell Wright

Robert Edge Pine, 1780

Oil portrait of a seated bald man in dark suit and wire-rimmed glasses against a brown background.

John Howard Raymond

John Howard Raymond, 1840

David Ramsay

Charles Willson Peale, 1770

Oil portrait of a man in a grey coat with silver buttons, powdered wig, and black cloak before a dark landscape.

Robert King Carter

Robert King Carter, 1710

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit holding eyeglasses against a dark brown background.

Portrait of President Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Clement Steele, 1900

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black doublet and white lace ruff, against a dark brown oval background.

John Winthrop

John Winthrop, 1800

Oil portrait of an older man with white powdered hair, black coat and white ruffled cravat on a dark red background.

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale, 1790

Portrait of a seated clergyman in black robes and white band collar, holding a book, with a landscape view behind him.

Bishop George Berkeley

John Smibert, 1720

Oval portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie against a brown background.

Abraham Lincoln

Charles Wesley Jarvis, 1860

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit, chin resting on his hand, leaning on a wooden chair against a dark background.

Abraham Lincoln

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1880

Painted portrait of a woman with dark hair in a bun, red blouse, blue necklace, and teal background.

Frida Kahlo

Magda Pach, 1930

Oval portrait of a woman with curled dark hair in a white dress, seated beside a gilded chair against a brown background.

Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt

Cephas Thompson, 1800

Oval oil portrait of a man with powdered hair in a dark coat, gold waistcoat and white cravat, against a brown background.

Jonas Phillips

Jonas Phillips, 1780

Oil portrait of an older man with grey hair in a dark coat and black cravat, seated before a brown background.

William Henry Harrison

Albert Gallatin Hoit, 1840

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

James Madison

Chester Harding, 1820

Seated woman in a blue dress and black hat holding a silver goblet, painted in soft blue watercolor washes.

The Silver Goblet

Lucy May Stanton, 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly bald man with white side whiskers in a dark suit and black bow tie, seated before a red chair.

John Quincy Adams

George Caleb Bingham, 1840

Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey hair in a dark coat and black bow tie against a brown background.

Zachary Taylor

John Vanderlyn, 1850

Oval oil portrait of a man with curly hair in a red drapery, against a dark background.

William Wirt

Cephas Thompson, 1800

Oil portrait of a man with a white mustache in a pale suit and tie against a muted gray-brown background.

Charles Evans Hughes

Philip de László, 1920