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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 Benjamin 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 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

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

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