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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Pencil sketch of a woman in a long gown beside a boy holding a hat, with a faint child behind her and a stone column.

Study of 3 figures - woman and 2 children

George Linen, 1830

Colorful caricature mural study with police officer, cowboy on horse, helmeted figure, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #2:

John Decker, 1940

Caricature mural study showing a row of exaggerated figures in top hats, a red gown, and a child, under painted clouds.

Mural Study #4:

John Decker, 1940

Colorful caricature mural study with exaggerated figures, a steam train, trumpeting cherubs, and a police officer on railway

Mural Study #1: Perils of Pauline/Keystone Cops

John Decker, 1940

Pencil portrait of a young boy with short hair and a high collar, drawn on a torn, pale sheet of paper.

Unidentified Boy

George Linen, 1830

Stephen Decatur

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Charcoal sketch of a bearded man in the foreground with a second figure reclining behind him, on tan paper.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Anders Zorn, 1890

Charcoal portrait of a man in a striped suit and dark tie, looking straight ahead on tan paper.

Herbert Hoover

Leo Mielziner, 1910

Thomas Tudor Tucker

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Matthew Calbraith Perry (with Henry A. Adams)

Furukawa Teiryo, 1850

Mark Twain

John White Alexander, 1910

Ink and watercolor sketch of a woman in glasses hugging a large tan dog, with a red heart above on peach paper.

Alexander Woollcott

Reginald Bathurst Birch, 1920

Pen and ink sketch of a seated man in a tall hat and cravat, with a sailing ship on water behind him.

Washington Irving

John Wesley Jarvis, 1800

Pencil sketch of a seated allegorical woman holding a liberty cap, resting on a globe, with a star-patterned shield behind he

Coin design

James Barton Longacre, 1790

John Thurman

Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit, 1790

Pencil sketch of a young child with closed eyes, wearing a ruffled bonnet and high collar, on a tan paper sheet.

Unidentified Child

George Linen, 1830

Brown wash portrait drawing of a man in a tricorne hat and gold epaulettes, looking to the side.

John Paul Jones

James Barton Longacre, 1820

Ann Pine Decatur

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Pencil sketch of a standing woman in a long puffed-sleeve gown with curled hair, turned to her left, on aged paper.

Unidentified Woman

George Linen, 1830

Aged paper fragment with handwritten receipt text and a flourished signature reading C. W. Peale.

Charles Wilson Peale's autograph

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Elizabeth Wirt

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Pencil sketch of men in conversation in a columned interior hall, with a saddled horse in the foreground and labeled figures.

Ulysses S. Grant and John Pemberton

Frederick B. Schell, 1861

Joseph Stella Self-Portrait

Joseph Stella, 1930

Sepia title page with an eagle holding a laurel branch, a central medallion portrait, and clustered portrait medallions above

Subscription book for portrait of Charles Carroll

James Barton Longacre, 1830

John Wickham

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1800

Brown ink sketch of a female dancer with an arm raised diagonally and draped fabric flowing around her body.

Isadora Duncan

Edmond van Saanen Algi, 1910

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape with trees and a reflective lake in the foreground, by Alfred R. Waud.

Mount of Temptation and Nazareth

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a white dress before a window showing a hazy hilly landscape with a town.

Carol Mitchell Phelps Stokes

Julius Rolshoven, 1900

Pen and ink portrait of a woman with curled hair, lace collar and earrings, by Jacques Reich, 1900.

Helen Herron Taft

Jacques Reich, 1900

Charcoal and pastel portrait of an elderly man with white mustache and dark suit against a hatched dark background.

Marcus Daly

Adolfo Müller-Ury, 1900