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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a black coat and bow tie against a dark brown background.

Martin Van Buren

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

Oil portrait of an older man with gray powdered hair in a blue military coat with gold epaulettes, holding a cane.

George Washington

Robert Edge Pine, 1780

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered hair in a blue coat with yellow facings and gold epaulettes.

Arthur St. Claire

Jean Pierre Henri Elouis, 1790

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a navy military uniform with gold epaulettes, soldiers behind him.

Andrew Jackson

Painting of a bearded elderly man in a gray hat holding an open book, with a fruit basket and cave behind him.

Benjamin Lay

Sr William Williams, 1750

Portrait of an older man in a blue coat pointing at a paper beside a brass telescope and books against red drapery.

David Rittenhouse

Charles Willson Peale, 1790

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark robe, holding a cane against a dark brown background.

Judge Alexander

John White Alexander, 1880

Oval oil portrait of an older man with white powdered hair in a dark blue military coat with gold epaulettes.

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale, 1840

Oval portrait of an elderly woman in a lace cap and white fichu, with a landscape view behind her.

Martha Washington

Rembrandt Peale, 1840

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

John Adams

John Trumbull, 1790

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man with a mustache in a dark jacket and white collar, against a brown background.

Talcott Williams

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, 1880

Oil portrait of a man with wire-rimmed spectacles, dark coat and black cravat, against a brown background.

William Lloyd Garrison

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1830

Oil portrait of a mustached man in a dark coat and bow tie, turned to the left against a loosely brushed brown background.

Grover Cleveland

Eastman Johnson, 1880

Portrait of a balding older man in a dark coat and white cravat, with a red drape and a globe behind him.

George Rogers Clark

C. D. Cook, 1800

Oil portrait of a woman in a black dress and white shawl, with curls decorated with pink flowers, against a dark background.

Abigail Powers Fillmore

Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1830

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

Eleazer Williams

Giuseppe Fagnani, 1850

Full-length portrait of a gray-haired man in a black coat holding spectacles against a brown background.

Charles Sumner

Edgar Parker, 1870

Oil portrait of an older bearded man in a dark military coat with arms crossed, beside a sword and a black hat.

Robert Edward Lee

John Adams Elder, 1861

Painting of an older bearded man in a dark suit beside a young woman in a large feathered hat, against a dark background.

Henry Clay and Helen Frick

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1910

Oil portrait of an elderly white-haired man in a black coat seated in a green chair beside a desk with a quill and book.

Noah Webster

James Herring, 1830

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a dark suit resting his hand on a carved wooden desk with papers.

William McKinley

Charles Ayer Whipple, 1861

Oil portrait of an elderly woman with white hair in a black dress, hands folded, against a warm brown background.

Sarah Porter

Robert Bolling Brandegee, 1890

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

Benjamin Silliman

John Trumbull, 1820

Half-length oil portrait of a balding man in a dark suit and white collar against a dark brown background.

John Quinn

George Benjamin Luks, 1900

Oil portrait of a dark-haired man in a dark double-breasted coat and white cravat, seated before a red chair.

John Caldwell Calhoun

Charles Bird King, 1810

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a dark suit and pince-nez holding a paper, against a dark brown background.

Woodrow Wilson

Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy, 1910

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thomas Buchanan Read, 1860

Oil portrait of a bald man with a moustache in a dark suit, white bow tie and flower boutonniere, against a dark background.

Thomas Benedict Clarke

Charles Frederick Ulrich, 1880

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark jacket and green cravat against a dark background.

Joseph Henry

Daniel Huntington, 1850

Oil portrait of a man in a dark green coat and white head wrap, seated against a brown background, 1830.

Catahecassa (Black Hoof)

Henry Inman, 1830