New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

2,982 works

Featured

Filters

Works per page

Color

Shape

Clear all

Sheet music cover with a lithographed portrait of a bearded man in a bow tie, under ornate lettering for Young America Grand

John Charles Fremont

Samuel Root, 1861

Reverend William White

William Henry Brown, 1840

Hand-colored comic lithograph of a man's head on a hen's body beside an egg labeled Natural History.

Henry Louis Stephens

Max Rosenthal, 1850

Caricature of John Jacob Astor IV with yellow mustache, dark suit and case, beside a coat of arms with a Manhattan map.

John Jacob Astor, IV

Carlo de Fornaro, 1900

John Marshall

William Henry Brown, 1840

Mezzotint portrait of George Washington in military uniform before a flag with thirteen stars, with a horse and soldier at le

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale, 1780

Full-length lithograph portrait of a standing man on a dock with an anchor, globe and telescope, with a harbor town behind hi

Eben Brock Ward

Robert T. Bishop, 1860

Engraved portrait of a standing officer holding a scroll, with a horse, turbaned attendant, tent and scattered documents.

George Washington

Noël Le Mire, 1780

Etching of a seated man playing bagpipes under a tree, with a goat behind him and a sheep resting in the grass.

Home

Adalbert John Volck, 1861

Engraved allegorical scene with a laurel-crowned man pointing a rod, a classical statue, plumed warriors, and chains on the g

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Charles Le Vasseur, 1770

Caricature of a bearded man bailing a sinking Democrat boat in rough seas, with figures struggling and a Tammany rock behind.

What H.G. Knows about Bailing

Thomas Nast, 1870

Engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin in an oval frame, flanked by a hooded figure with a lantern and an eagle.

Benjamin Franklin

Anne-Rosalie Bocquet Filleul, 1780

Engraved newspaper page showing officers meeting on a porch before a stone house, with horses and soldiers at the right.

Siege of Vicksburg

Frederick B. Schell, 1861

Engraved oval portrait of Benjamin Franklin with a laurel wreath, an eagle, lightning bolts and a pedestal inscribed VIR.

Benjamin Franklin

J. Pelicier, 1780

Sheet music cover with a lithographed portrait of a standing man holding a top hat and cane in a park setting.

Here's to You Henry Clay

Henry Clay, 1840

Engraved equestrian portrait of a uniformed officer on a dark horse, with cannon and soldiers on a battlefield.

George Brinton McClellan

Adam B. Walter, 1860

Lithograph of Nicholas I in military dress with epaulettes and sash, holding a plumed hat beside a stone column.

Nicholas I

Richard James Lane, 1840

Hand-colored print of a mounted officer with raised sabre on a black horse, with soldiers, a flag, and battle smoke behind.

Ulysses S. Grant

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Caricature of a seated man in a top hat and checked suit with a pipe and monocle beside a Britannia life preserver.

William Waldorf Astor

Albert Levering, 1900

Hand-colored lithograph of William Henry Harrison standing in a cloak with a cane and top hat, beside trees and a lawn.

William Henry Harrison

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Engraved portrait of a man in a tricorn hat before ship rigging and gun smoke, with a French caption below.

John Paul Jones

Carl Guttenberg, 1770

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark double-breasted coat and cravat before a cloudy sky with trees.

Thomas Wilson Dorr

Jr William Warner, 1840

Lithographic portrait of a bearded officer in dark uniform with sabre, before a military camp, flag and domed building.

Frederick West Lander

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Engraved portrait of George Washington in military uniform beside a white horse, cannon and distant battle with a flag.

George Washington

Thomas Cheesman, 1790

Engraved cartoon of a stern man bound in red tape sinking underwater with an anchor labeled Tape, sea creatures around him.

The Statute of Limitation

Thomas Nast, 1870

Lithograph portrait of a bearded officer in uniform with a sword, set before a mountain landscape with a waterfall and tents.

William Starke Rosecrans

Joseph Edward Baker, 1861

Hand-colored lithograph of General Washington in blue uniform beside a grey horse, with a cannon and battle smoke behind him.

George Washington

James S. Baillie, 1840

Engraved portrait of a uniformed officer with epaulettes leaning on a cannon wheel, with a cloudy landscape behind him.

General Winfield Scott

Thomas Gimbrede, 1810

Hand-colored lithograph of General Zachary Taylor in dress uniform with a sword, before a battlefield encampment with troops

Zachary Taylor

Nathaniel Currier, 1840

Colorful sheet music cover with an oval portrait of Henry Clay in an ornate gilded frame, cherubs and a seated woman.

Henry Clay

William James Hubard, 1840