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Oil portrait of a woman with dark upswept hair and a large white ruff collar against a brown background.

Portrait of Frances C. Houston

Thomas Dewing, 1880

Portrait of a Woman

Jacob Eichholtz, 1800

Oil portrait of a young boy with dark bobbed hair, head bowed, wearing a brown top over a white collar.

Study Head of a Boy

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Young man in dark coat writing at a cluttered table of books, with plaster statues and an easel in a dim studio interior.

Portrait of Godfrey Frankenstein

John Frankenstein, 1840

Oil portrait of an older man with gray hair, mustache and eyeglasses in a dark suit against a teal and cream background.

Portrait of H. Siddons Mowbray

Henry Salem Hubbell, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit holding a rolled document, with a quill, books, and a domed building in the windo

Portrait of Freeman Cary

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a blue dress and red shoes, holding cherries beside a rose bush with a yellow butterf

Portrait of Adelia Ellender

Joshua Johnson, 1800

Painting of a woman in a red and black velvet gown raising a wine glass, with pearls and a carafe of wine beside her.

Portrait of a Lady

Flemish Cornelis De Vos, 1580

Self-Portrait Reflected in Mirror

Self-Portrait Reflected in Mirror

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Oil portrait of a seated man with a mustache in a brown suit and white collar against a pale background.

Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing

Thomas Hovenden, 1890

Hester Marian Wait Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Hester Marian Wait Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Oliver Ingraham Lay, 1880

Oil portrait of a seated woman with curled hair, white dress, red shawl and folded arms against a dark background.

Portrait of Fidelia Marshall

Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1840

Oil portrait of a young man with tousled brown hair, white cravat and dark coat, turned left against a black background.

Portrait of a Man

John Jackson, 1830

Full-length portrait of a woman in a pale blue gown with gold sash against a dark background, painted in loose brushwork.

Portrait of Dorothy Wagstaff

Robert Henri, 1910

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white silk gown with lace cuffs, resting her arm on a ledge before a tree and sky.

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston, 1740

Painting of a bay horse with white socks standing beside a stone trough before a stone wall, under a cloudy sky.

Portrait of Lexington

Thomas J. Scott, 1850

Portrait of a Woman (Miss Gertrude Bloede)

Portrait of a Woman (Miss Gertrude Bloede)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1880

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black dress and lace veil, hand on a gilded chair, holding a book.

Portrait of a Lady

James Peale, 1810

Painting of a bearded man seated in an armchair reading a small book in a dim room lined with bookshelves.

Portrait of Sanford Saltus of New York

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of an elderly bald man with a long white beard, head bowed, wearing a green garment against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo, 1400

Oil portrait of a woman with dark hair turning her head sideways, wearing a blue garment against a dark background.

Head of a Woman

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Oil portrait of three children on a stone terrace with a white rabbit, under a dramatic sky with a distant castle.

Portrait of the Downer Children

Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1850

Seated woman in a red dress with gold bracelets, against a green background, in a painted portrait.

Portrait of a Lady

Laura Wheeler Waring, 1940

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a black hat and dark coat against a brown background with a bare tree.

Portrait of Wyatt Eaton

J. Alden Weir, 1870

Oil portrait of a man with powdered hair, white cravat and brown coat, looking toward the viewer against a dark background.

Portrait of a Man

Joshua Reynolds, 1700

Painting of Christ with a halo, long brown hair and beard, red robe, and raised hand against a dark background.

Head of Christ

Palma il Vecchio, 1590

Oil portrait of an older man with white hair in a dark coat and white cravat, holding a quill pen against a dark red backgrou

Portrait of Putnam Catlin

George Catlin, 1840

Painted self-portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a pipe, against a warm brown background.

Portrait du peintre par lui-meme

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Half-length oil portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat, against a dark background.

Major Ridge, Portrait of Cherokee Indian

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a red dress with clasped hands against a dark background.

Portrait of a Lady (Mrs. William B. Cabot)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900