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Studio interior with two children before a blank landscape canvas and a painter working at an easel on the right.

Interior with Portraits

Thomas Le Clear, 1865

Seated man in red fez and white fustanella costume beside a hookah, with a sword and a distant hilltop view.

Portrait of John B. Carmac, in Greek Evzone Costume

Walter Gould, 1850

Dim interior with a woman carrying a tray past seated diners and a kneeling servant, painted in loose brown tones.

Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a studio interior with two children before a large canvas, a painter at an easel, portraits on walls, and a dog.

Interior with Portraits

Thomas Le Clear, 1860

Painting of a large dark grizzly bear's head and claws looming over a tiny mouse on the ground under a pale sky.

Portraits of a Grizzly Bear and Mouse, Life Size

George Catlin, 1840

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

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 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

Portrait of a Lady

P. E. Stroëhling, 1800

Double portrait of a seated woman in a white bonnet and a man in a grey coat drawing with a pen at a green table.

Portrait of the Artist and His Wife

William Leslie, 1800

Portrait miniature of a bearded man in dark jacket and bow tie, shown with the gilt case reverse.

Portrait of a Gentleman

Peregrine F. Cooper, 1840

Five studies of bear heads in brown paint on a pale background, showing different angles of grizzly bears.

Portraits of Two Grizzly Bears, From Life

George Catlin, 1830

Watercolor of a man sleeping on his side with his head on his arm, wearing a white shirt on rumpled white sheets.

Portrait Study

Thomas La Farge, 1930

Untitled (Portrait of a Young Woman)

Ida Josephine Burgess, 1880

Untitled (Head of Bearded Man)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and a winding river valley at twilight, with handwritten notes along the bottom edge.

Twilight on the Way from Tongue River (Head of Little Big Horn?)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair in a blue coat and white cravat, shown open in a velvet case.

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Peale, 1790