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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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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

Portrait of a woman with dark bobbed hair in a blue dress against a swirling orange and red background.

Theresa Helburn

Marion H. Beckett, 1920

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

Alla Nazimova

Edward Emerson Simmons, 1910

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

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark military uniform with star-embroidered shoulder straps against a brown background.

Ulysses S. Grant

Samuel Bell Waugh, 1861

Oil portrait of a seated elderly man in a black robe and white collar against a dark background, by Chester Harding.

Bushrod Washington

Chester Harding, 1820

Oil portrait of a gray-haired man in a black coat and cravat, seated in a red chair against a dark background.

James Knox Polk

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Julius Fleischmann

Frederick William Wright, 1920

Oil portrait of a bearded man with gray beard in a dark suit and ascot tie against a warm brown background.

Chester A. Arthur

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1880

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit standing before trees and a stone wall with a garden path.

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas Le Clear, 1861

Oil portrait of a man in a dark jacket and black necktie against a dark background, with loose brushwork.

George Benjamin Luks

William Glackens, 1890

Full-length portrait of a standing man in black velvet beside a gilded table, red drapery, and a red chair.

George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait)

Gilbert Stuart, 1790

Small oil portrait of a seated man with grey curly hair, brown coat and hand on chin, at a desk with papers.

Benjamin Latrobe

Charles Frederick Von Breda, 1780

Portrait of an older woman in a white lace cap and black lace shawl against a dark brown background.

Martha Washington

Gilbert Stuart, 1800

Full-length oil portrait of a man in black suit and white cravat leaning on a wooden desk with white gloves.

George Peabody

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Oil portrait of a bearded man with gray mustache in a dark coat and white collar against a brown background.

Chester Alan Arthur

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1880

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark military coat with gold buttons against a brown background.

Zachary Taylor

James Reid Lambdin, 1840