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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Josiah Meigs

Josiah Meigs, 1800

Grayscale drawing of an older man with white hair and a white clerical collar in an oval frame, inscribed John Witherspoon.

John Witherspoon

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Pencil drawing of two men at an ornate wooden railing, one smiling with papers, the other bearded and reading.

American Royalty

Edward Tennyson Reed, 1900

Pen and ink portrait of an older man with wavy hair and a cravat, signed Jacques Reich, mounted on card.

John Tyler

Jacques Reich, 1900

Portrait drawing of a man in a dark coat and high collar beside a classical urn, with a red drape behind him.

Nicholas Biddle

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Pencil portrait of a bearded man with shoulder-length hair, wearing a jacket and cravat, looking to the side.

Ogden Nicholas Rood

Peter von Hess, 1850

Pen and ink portrait of a man with long wavy hair and a cravat, signed Jacques Reich, 1900.

Sir William Penn

Jacques Reich, 1900

Grayscale bust portrait drawing of a man with long curly hair wearing studded steel armor and a white collar.

Sir William Penn

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Caricature drawing of a bearded man in a dark overcoat leaning over a lectern, reading, beside a pale column.

Dwight Lyman Moody

Carlo Pellegrini, Mar 1839 - 22 Jan, 1870

Pen-and-ink portrait of an older man with wavy hair, checked jacket and bow tie, mounted on a grey board.

Charles Sumner

Jacques Reich, 1900

Engraved bust portrait of a man with wavy hair, dark jacket and bow tie, with a handwritten signature below.

Charles Dexter Cleveland

John Sartain, 1850

Martha Carey Thomas

Wallace Morgan, 1910

Pen and ink portrait of an older man in a cross-hatched coat and white cravat, labelled James Monroe.

James Monroe

Jacques Reich, 1900

Van Wyck Brooks

John Butler Yeats, 1900

Charcoal portrait of a man with tousled dark hair and a cravat, set in an oval vignette on tan paper.

John Pendleton Kennedy

Eastman Johnson, 1840

Pencil portrait sketch of a moustached man in a bow tie, with a small blue pencil study at lower right.

Elihu Vedder

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1880

Loose watercolor portrait of a woman in a dark green dress and yellow-brown hat, with a warm ochre background.

Mary Cassatt Self-Portrait

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, 1880

Sepia-toned oval portrait drawing of a balding man in a dark coat and white cravat, against aged paper.

Samuel Slater

James Sullivan Lincoln, 1830

Portrait of a man in a blue-collared gray coat, white cravat and dark sash against a brown background.

William Augustine Washington

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Charles Willson Peale

Titian Ramsay Peale II, 1800

Charcoal portrait of an elderly bald man in a suit and tie against a dark hatched background, signed by Sargent.

Moorfield Storey

John Singer Sargent, 1910

Small pencil and watercolor bust portrait of a young man with short light hair and a dark coat, on cream paper.

James Barton Longacre Self-Portrait

James Barton Longacre, 1800

Pen and ink drawing of a mounted moose skeleton on a crate labeled MOOSE EXTINCT, with a uniformed man and a wreath below.

Teddy Roosevelt and Oscar Edward Cesare

Oscar Edward Cesare, 1920

James Riddle

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Pencil and brown wash sketch of an older man with curly hair, high collar and cravat, shown from the chest up.

Unidentified Man

James Barton Longacre, 1830

Charcoal and chalk drawing on tan paper of a bearded man with curly hair gazing upward.

Titian Ramsay Peale II Self-Portrait

Titian Ramsay Peale II, 1840

Charles Stewart

Thomas Sully, 1810

Grover Cleveland

George Burroughs Torrey, 1880

Pastel portrait of a man with grey hair, dark coat and white cravat against a blue-grey background.

Joseph Priestley

James Sharples, 1790

Charcoal portrait of an older man with gray hair in a dark coat and bow tie, turned to the side on tan paper.

William Stone

Ida Story Hammond, 1880