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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit, white pleated shirt and black bow tie against an olive background.

Gen. Benjamin Helm Bristow

Philip Oskar Jenkins, 1861

Oval oil portrait of an elderly bearded man with white hair in a dark coat against a dark background.

William Cullen Bryant

Daniel Huntington, 1860

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black with lace collar and sheer shawl, with a river landscape visible through a window.

Jane Cocking Glover

Pietro Bonanni, 1820

Oil portrait of a young man with dark hair and blue eyes in a dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Sully, 1850

Oil portrait of a man with a full auburn beard and dark coat against a brown background, by George Fuller, 1860.

John Quincy Adams Ward

George Fuller, 1860

Oil portrait of a man with silver hair in a black coat and white cravat, holding a scroll, with a column behind him.

John Middleton Clayton

David Acheson Woodward, 1840

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white moustache in a grey academic gown against a brown background.

Richard Alexander Penrose

Julian Russell Story, 1910

Oil portrait of a bearded man with reddish hair in a brown jacket and cravat against a dark background.

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Louise Fitzpatrick

Oil portrait of a man with round spectacles and a mustache, holding a cigar, against a dark green background.

Frank Duveneck Self-Portrait

Frank Duveneck, 1880

Full-length portrait of a standing man in feathered headdress and beaded fringed regalia, holding a long staff.

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James Wells Champney, 1880

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a black coat and white shirt, seated in a chair against a brown background.

Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest, 1830

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

Oil portrait of a young violinist in a dark jacket and white collar playing violin against a dark green background.

Yehudi Menuhin

Mark S. Joffe, 1930

Oil portrait of a man with tousled brown hair in a dark coat and white cravat before a red background.

James Johnson

Matthew Harris Jouett, 1810

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