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Full-length portrait of a standing man in black velvet beside a gilded table, red drapery, and a red chair.

George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait)

Gilbert Stuart, 1790

Small oil portrait of a seated man with grey curly hair, brown coat and hand on chin, at a desk with papers.

Benjamin Latrobe

Charles Frederick Von Breda, 1780

Full-length oil portrait of a man in black suit and white cravat leaning on a wooden desk with white gloves.

George Peabody

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1840

Portrait of an older woman in a white lace cap and black lace shawl against a dark brown background.

Martha Washington

Gilbert Stuart, 1800

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark military coat with gold buttons against a brown background.

Zachary Taylor

James Reid Lambdin, 1840

Oil portrait of a bearded man with gray mustache in a dark coat and white collar against a brown background.

Chester Alan Arthur

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1880

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 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 hair in a navy military uniform with gold epaulettes, soldiers behind him.

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1810

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

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 Eakins, 1880

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 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 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Charles William Eliot

Annie Ware Sabine Siebert, 1920

Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bird King, 1830

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

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

Joseph Wood, 1810

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