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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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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

Portrait of an elderly bearded painter with spectacles, holding a brush, seated before a sunset landscape.

George Inness

Franklin C. Courter, 1920

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

Oil portrait of a man with swept-back hair in a dark high-collared coat and white shirt against a brown background.

Unidentified Man

Millard Fillmore, 1840

Oil portrait of an older man with a white mustache and pince-nez glasses, wearing a dark suit and tie, dated 1920.

John Henry Patterson

J. Phillip Schmand, 1920

Oval portrait of a woman with dark ringlets in a black dress, lace cuffs and gold brooch, hands resting before a red drape.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Alanson Fisher, 1850

Henry James

Jacques-Émile Blanche, 1900

Collis Potter Huntington

Francis Augustus Lathrop, 1900

The Penny Image of Abraham Lincoln

William Willard, 1860

Oil portrait of a man in a dark naval officer's uniform with gold epaulettes, against a dark sky and sea.

David Glasgow Farragut

William Swain, 1830

Oil portrait of a gray-haired man in a dark suit and blue cravat, leaning on an carved wooden chair against a dark background

Charles Carroll Glover

John McLure Hamilton, 1900

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair and mustache in a dark suit and black tie, against a brown background.

William Franklin Draper

Maurice W. Clark, 1890

Oil portrait of an older man in black coat and white cravat gesturing beside a red draped lectern with an open book.

Thomas Paul

Thomas Badger, 1820

Oil portrait of a man with tousled brown hair in a dark suit and white collar, seated before a brown background.

Franklin Pierce

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

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

George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait

George Caleb Bingham, 1840

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a pink gown holding a white feather fan, with a cloudy landscape behind her.

Juliette Gordon Low

Edward Hughes, 1880

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark blue military coat with gold epaulettes against an olive background.

Zachary Taylor

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860

Oil portrait of a man with powdered white hair, blue coat and white lace cravat against a dark background.

Joel Barlow

Robert Fulton, 1800

Oil portrait of a young man in a dark military-style coat with gold buttons, red epaulettes and green cape, against a cloudy

Samuel Ringgold

John Vanderlyn, 1820

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white mustache in a dark suit, one hand resting on books, against a gray paneled wall.

Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich

Anders Zorn, 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit seated in a green armchair, holding a rock specimen, with books nearby.

Isaac Lea

Bernard Albrecht Uhle, 1890

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a dark suit seated in a brass-studded chair with a red setter dog.

Sidney Dillon

Francis Davis Millet, 1880

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man with gray hair and a stern sidelong glance, wearing a brown cloak against a dark backg

John Brown

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1870