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

Daniel Webster

Francis Alexander, 1830

Susan Brownell Anthony

Carl Gutherz, 1890

Seated young man in black academic gown and cap, holding a book, in a garden with ivy and a distant classical ruin.

James Smithson

James Roberts, 1780

Portrait of a seated man in a black gown and powdered wig, holding a quill, with a brass telescope and red drapery behind him

John Ewing

Charles Willson Peale, 1780

Oil portrait of an older woman in a white cap and shawl, seated with folded hands against a dark brown background.

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Joseph Kyle, 1840

Oil portrait of a bald man in a dark suit and cravat against a brown background, signed J B Yeats 1908.

John Quinn

John Butler Yeats, 1900

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a dark jacket, brown waistcoat and black cravat against a dark background.

James C. McGuire

Charles Loring Elliott, 1850

Oil portrait of a seated bald man in a dark suit holding a paper, against a brown background.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Walter Ingalls, 1870

Oval oil portrait of a bald older man in gold spectacles, dark coat and cravat against a brown background.

William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison, 1850

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket seated beside a piano, one hand raised to his head.

George Frederick Bristow

George Frederick Bristow, 1860

Oil portrait of a seated man with a mustache in a dark double-breasted suit beside a column.

William Howard Taft

William Valentine Schevill, 1910

Oil portrait of a bald, bearded man in a dark suit against a warm brown background.

Henry George

George de Forest Brush, 1880

Oil portrait of a man in a cream jacket, white collar and blue tie, arms folded, against a dark brown background.

Francis Patrick Garvan

Philip de László, 1920

James Garfield

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1880

Oil portrait of a young man with dark wavy hair and a brown coat against a dark brown background.

John Lothrop Motley

Thomas Phillips, 1830

Oil portrait of a seated elderly man with white hair, dark suit and blue bow tie, holding a book in a carved armchair.

Joseph Henry

Thomas Le Clear, 1870

Oval portrait of an elderly man with white hair and beard, dark jacket and bow tie, in a gold frame.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Theodore Wust, 1870

Oil portrait of a standing gray-haired man with a mustache, wearing a dark suit and blue tie, hand in pocket.

Charles Greeley Abbot

Samantha Littlefield Huntley, 1920

Oil portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat before a dark background.

James Monroe

John Vanderlyn, 1810

Portrait of a seated man in a red turban and blue coat, pointing to a sheet of invented letters beside a quill.

Sequoyah

Henry Inman, 1820

Oil portrait of a grey-haired man in a dark coat and white collar, gazing to the side against a brown background.

John C. Calhoun

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Oil portrait of an older man with grey hair in a dark coat and white cravat against an olive-brown background.

James Monroe

Chester Harding, 1820

Oil portrait of a seated man in black with white cravat, holding a metal jar beside an electrical machine, red drapery behind

David Wiley

Charles Peale Polk, 1800

Half-length oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a black coat and cravat against an olive background.

James Pollard Espy

Thomas Sully, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, seated beside an open book with a green drape behind him.

Valentine Mott

Valentine Mott, 1820

William McKinley

Adolfo Müller-Ury, 1861

Oval oil portrait of a man with short curly hair in a black coat, white shirt and black cravat against a dark background.

John Russwurm

John Russwurm, 1850

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair and a full white beard in a brown coat against a red background.

Samuel F. B. Morse

Edward Lind Morse, 1890

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark double-breasted coat, white cravat, and red chair, against an olive background

John C. Calhoun

Charles Bird King, 1810

Oil portrait of a young girl with auburn curls in a blue dress holding a vase of pink and yellow flowers, 1870.

Edith Wharton

Edward Harrison May, 1870