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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

Two men fishing from a rowboat on calm water at sunset, with a fish splashing beside the hull and seagulls overhead.

Grover Cleveland

William F. Kelly, 1890

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

Oil portrait of a family of five seated in a formal room, with an older woman in a burgundy velvet dress and two girls.

William Jervis Hough and Family

J. Brayton Wilcox, 1850

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

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white beard and spectacles in a dark military uniform, holding a cane.

Richard Delafield

Charles Courtney Curran, 1910

Group portrait of men in a red-draped room with bookshelves, a tiled floor, a dog, and a window view.

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside

Christian Schussele, 1860

Charles William Eliot

Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, 1920

Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bird King, 1830

Man in white turban reclining on red cushions with a hookah on a terrace, a servant at left and a city and mountain behind.

Bayard Taylor

Thomas Hicks, 1850

Oil portrait of a bald man in round spectacles and a black robe with white cravat against a dark brown background.

Joseph Story

Chester Harding, 1820

Portrait of a bald man in a dark coat and white cravat holding an open book, with bookshelves and a red curtain behind him.

Reverend Justus Henry Christian Helmuth

John Eckstein, 1800

Oil portrait of an older bearded man with gray hair in a gray coat with gold stars on the collar, dark background.

Robert E. Lee

Edward Caledon Bruce, 1861