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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Oil portrait of an elderly white-bearded man in a dark military coat with gold collar stars against a red background.

Robert E. Lee

George Bagby Matthews, 1861

Painting of a man in a dark suit and pince-nez descending stone steps, holding a top hat, with a shadowy serpent behind him.

Theodore Roosevelt

Sigismund De Ivanowski, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark coat and white cravat before red drapery, with a carved chair arm at lower left.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1840

Half-length oil portrait of a man with swept dark hair in a dark coat and white ruffled cravat, against a brown background.

Thomas Say

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

Stephen Fuller Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin, 1840

John Tyler

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and cravat against a green and ochre background.

Millard Fillmore

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1850

Oil portrait of a seated man in black coat with a book labeled Can Slavery As It Is, red drapery and stormy landscape behind.

James Armstrong Thome

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1830

Portrait of a man in a powdered wig and blue coat, hand resting on a document, with a classical statue beside him.

Thomas Jefferson

Mather Brown, 1780

Group portrait of formally dressed men gathered around a table with a telegraph instrument in a marble-columned interior.

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 1860

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat, red waistcoat and white cravat against a brown background, painted in 1740.

Lewis Morris

Seated man in dark coat in red armchair before green drape, with bust, globe and quill pen on a desk beside him.

Daniel Webster

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Portrait of an elderly man with long white hair in a reddish-brown coat, holding an open book against a dark background.

William Samuel Johnson

John Wesley Jarvis, 1800

Full-length portrait of a man in a black suit leaning on a carved wooden cabinet against a dark background.

William McKinley

August Benziger, 1861

Oil portrait of a man in a black coat, cream waistcoat and white cravat against a dark background.

James Monroe

James Herring, 1820

Full-length oil portrait of a standing man in fringed traditional dress with a walking stick, against a stormy sky.

Red Jacket (Sagoyewatha)

Thomas Hicks, 1860

Rubens Peale

Rembrandt Peale, 1800

Oval portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark suit and bow tie, against a green background, in a gilt frame.

Abraham Lincoln

John Henry Brown, 1860

Portrait of an elderly man with white hair and spectacles in a black coat and white cravat, seated beside a red chair.

Andrew Jackson

Jr James Tooley, 1840

Oil portrait of a man in a dark suit and black cravat, hand resting on papers, against a brown interior backdrop.

Andrew Johnson

Washington Bogart Cooper, 1860

Oil portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a dark suit and blue cravat against a brown background.

Joseph Henry

Henry Ulke, 1880

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man seated in a carved armchair, with a book, newspaper and spectacles beside him.

Isaac Mayer Wise

Morris Goldstein, 1880

Oil portrait of a young woman with curled dark hair wearing a red shawl against a dark brown background.

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait

Sarah Miriam Peale, 1810

John Rutledge

John Trumbull, 1790

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

Solomon White Roberts

Manuel Joachim de Franca, 1830

Oil portrait of a man with a mustache, dark jacket and bow tie, against a loose olive-green background.

Cass Gilbert

Robert Bolling Brandegee, 1880

Oil portrait of a man with light hair in a dark uniform with gold epaulettes against a brown background.

Leonard Wood

John Singer Sargent, 1900

Stonewall Jackson

J. W. King, 1861

Miniature portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark coat and black cravat, in a gold frame.

Benjamin Tappan

Washington Blanchard, 1830

Portrait of a seated man in a red velvet suit beside a table with documents, quill and rug, in a gilded chair.

Henry Laurens

John Singleton Copley, 1780