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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Seated man in dark suit and white cravat beside a marble bust and draped red curtain in a dim interior.

John Caldwell Calhoun

William James Hubard, 1820

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and striped blue tie against a brown background, by John Singer Sargent.

Henry Cabot Lodge

John Singer Sargent, 1890

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

James Kent

Rembrandt Peale, 1820

Oil portrait of a bearded man seated in a wooden armchair before a framed mountain landscape painting.

John Wesley Powell

Edmund Clarence Messer, 1880

William James

John La Farge, 1850

Samuel F. B. Morse Self-Portrait

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1810

Loose oil portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair and a serious expression against a warm brown background.

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Charles Loring Elliott, 1850

Oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair in a black coat and white collar against a warm brown background.

Frederick Douglass

Elisha Livermore Hammond, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit and black bow tie against a brown background, looking toward the viewer.

William McKinley

William Thomas Mathews, 1861

Half-length portrait of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat against a red background.

Albert Gallatin

Thomas Worthington Whittredge, 1850

Oil portrait of an elderly man in a dark suit holding a pen at a desk before bookshelves.

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Samantha Littlefield Huntley, 1920

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark coat and white shirt against a mottled olive background.

Spencer Fullerton Baird

Henry Ulke, 1880

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair in a black coat and cravat against a dark brown background.

John Tyler

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Portrait of a man in a blue double-breasted coat and white cravat against a dark grey background.

James Smithson

Henri-Joseph Johns, 1810

Seated portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit with spectacles, beside a red drapery and gilt chair.

Orestes Brownson

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1860

Painting of a woman with short dark hair resting her head on her hand, wearing a dark dress with a pink ruffled collar.

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

Ellen Day Hale, 1880

Oil portrait of an elderly man with curly white hair in a dark coat and high collar, against a dark background.

Robert Hare

Alvan Clark, 1850

Seated man in dark suit and round glasses writing at a desk beside candelabra, painted against a dark brown interior.

Woodrow Wilson

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1920

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat against a dark olive and red background.

Daniel Webster

Chester Harding, 1820

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

Painting of mounted Union officers galloping across a dusty field under flags, with horses and dust clouds.

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1861

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