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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian)

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Colored pencil and watercolor sketch of a man in a hat and green jacket on a boardwalk among dune grasses and yellow flowers.

Childe Hassam Self-Portrait

Childe Hassam, 1930

Etching of a seated man in a wide hat sketching among standing onlookers, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

J. A. M. Whistler Self-Portrait

James McNeill Whistler, 1850

Oil portrait of a man in a brown coat with a paintbrush, leaning on a table beside loose papers, against a gray background.

Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait

Matthew Pratt, 1760

Oil portrait of a balding bearded man in glasses, dark suit and bow tie against a brown background.

William Closson Self-Portrait

William Baxter Palmer Closson, 1900

Painted self-portrait of a bearded man with white hair and wire glasses, in a brown jacket and orange tie, against a dark bac

Louis Michel Eilshemius Self-Portrait

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 1910

Oil self-portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket and white collar, turned three-quarters toward the viewer against a brown

George Fuller Self-Portrait

George Fuller, 1860

Half-length 1840 portrait of a young man with swept dark hair, wearing a brown jacket and white cravat, gazing left.

James Reid Lambdin Self-Portrait

James Reid Lambdin, 1840

Half-length portrait of a man with dark hair in a black coat and bow tie against a brown background.

George Caleb Bingham Self-Portrait

George Caleb Bingham, 1840

Oil portrait of a woman with pulled-back hair, white collar and orange blouse against a warm brown background.

Cecilia Beaux Self-Portrait

Cecilia Beaux, 1880

Half-length oil portrait of a young man in a black jacket, yellow waistcoat and purple cravat against a dark brown background

George Henry Durrie Self-Portrait

George Henry Durrie, 1840

Oil portrait of a man with round spectacles and a mustache, holding a cigar, against a dark green background.

Frank Duveneck Self-Portrait

Frank Duveneck, 1880

Painting of an elderly man in a black gown holding a palette and brush, seated before a warm, loosely painted background.

Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 1930

Oil portrait of a man in a felt hat and blue jacket smoking a pipe, with a green bottle in a warm interior.

Arvid Frederick Nyholm Self-Portrait

Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1920

Oil portrait of a young man with dark wavy hair, white cravat and dark jacket, gazing toward the viewer against a dark backgr

William Page Self-Portrait

William Page, Jan 1811 - 30 Sep, 1830

Oil self-portrait of a man with curly hair and moustache holding a palette and brushes, against a dark green background.

Frederick William MacMonnies Self-Portrait

Frederick William MacMonnies, 1900

Oval oil portrait of a man with a mustache and goatee in a black jacket and white cravat against a brown background.

Carl Wimar Self-Portrait

Carl Wimar, 1850

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark suit holding eyeglasses against a dark brown background.

Portrait of President Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Clement Steele, 1900

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

Samuel F. B. Morse Self-Portrait

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1810

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

Oil portrait of a bald older man with wire-rimmed glasses and a mustache, in a dark jacket and white collar.

Henry Mosler Self-portrait

Henry Mosler, 1900

Oval oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig, red coat and white cravat against a dark brown background.

John Singleton Copley Self-Portrait

John Singleton Copley, 1780

Half-length oil portrait of an older man with white powdered hair, brown coat and white cravat against a dark background.

Charles Willson Peale Self-Portrait

Charles Willson Peale, 1790

Oval portrait of a man with glasses, mustache and dark bow tie against a lavender background with a gold border.

George Linen Self-portrait

George Linen, 1840

Oval miniature portrait of a man with curly brown hair, black coat and white cravat, set in a gold pendant frame.

William Dunlap self-portrait

William Dunlap, 1800

Oval watercolor self-portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair and an open-collared shirt against a grey-brown background.

Self-Portrait

Alfred Jones, 1840

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

Augustus Goodyear Heaton Self-Portrait

Augustus Goodyear Heaton, 1880

Ink caricature of a bespectacled, mustached man in a dark suit holding a cigarette, with a handwritten dedication.

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell Self-Portrait

Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell, 1910