Historic American Leaders Portraits

A collection of classic portraits depicting historic American leaders in various artistic styles, featuring somber tones and traditional attire, evoking a sense of history.

James Madison, by Gilbert Stuart , 1821, American painting, oil on canvas. Colonel George Gibbs, Rhode Island, commissioned Stuart to paint five American Presidents in the 1820s. This Madison portrait was likely based on other pictures Stuart had painted (BSLOC_2016_5_68)

Thomas Jefferson.. Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860). Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

James Madison, by Gilbert Stuart , 1821, American painting, oil on canvas. Colonel George Gibbs, Rhode Island, commissioned Stuart to paint five American Presidents in the 1820s. This Madison portrait was likely based on other pictures Stuart had painted (BSLOC_2016_5_68)

George Washington, 1904. Max Rosenthal (American, 1833-1918). Mezzotint;

George Washington, 22 February 1732-14 December 1799, from 1789 to 1797 the first President of the United States of America, Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), Historic, digitally restored reproduction of a historic original.

George Washington (1732 - 1799) First American President

Portrait of President James Madison (1751-1836) an American statesman and 4th President of the United States. Painted by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) an American painter. Dated 19th Century

George Washington, First President of the USA, 19th century. Artist: W Humphreys

George Washington, engraving after Gilbert Stuart, c. 1800. This Washington portrait is based on Stuart's 1796 sitting with the President, the unfinished 'Athenaeum Portrait' (BSLOC_2019_4_177)

George Washington (1732-99), First President of the United States, Head and Shoulders Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America by Evert A. Duyckinck, Published by Henry J. Johnson, Johnson, Wilson & Compan

Portrait of George Washington, first president of the United States.

George Washington.. Prints. 1850. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799

George Washington (22 February 1732 - 14 December 1799) was the first President of the United States of America from 1789 to 1797, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

George Washington, by Adolph Wertmuller, American painting, 1795. The Swedish born Wertmuller established himself as a French trained painter in Paris before he traveled to the US from 1794-96, where he painted five Washington portraits. Returning to the Philadelphia in 1800, he married and lived in Delaware until his death in 1811 (BSLOC_2019_4_178)

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Vaughan-Sinclair portrait), American, 1755-1828, 1795, oil on canvas

A portrait of Fra. Bernard, Governor of Massachusetts from 1760 to 1769, created by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815). The artwork was issued between 1777 and 1890, specifically in 1887. Fra. Bernard, also known as Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779), is depicted in the painting

George Washington.. Stuart, Gilbert (1755-1828). Prints. 1796. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (1732-1799). President of the United States. Portrait by Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller (1751-1811), 1795. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

George Washington (1732-1731). Frist President of the US. Engraving, 1883.Engraving, Nuestro Siglo, 1883.

James Madison. 1776 - 1890. Portraits, Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Madison, James, 1751-1836

Gilbert Stuart, Robert Liston, American, 1755-1828, 1800, oil on canvas

George Washington, by Gilbert Stuart (Vaughan portrait), 1795, American painting, oil on canvas. This is one of the 130 known portraits of Washington by portraitist Gilbert Stuart (BSLOC_2016_5_60)

Warren Hastings (1721-1818) English administrator in India. Impeached at bar of House of Lords 1788, acquitted 1795. Stipple engraving.

George Washington (Vaughan portrait) A33850 Painting; oil on canvas; overall: 73 x 60.5 cm (28 3/4 x 23 13/16 in.) framed: 100.3 x 87.3 cm (39 1/2 x 34 3/8 in.);

George Washington, Engraving by A. Blanchard from a Painting by Auguste Couder

George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, (1755-1828)

James Madison in portrait engraving based on by Gilbert Stuart's 1809-1817 portrait from life (BSLOC_2019_6_185)

George Washington. oil on canvas. Date: 1803. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, c 1803 1805 George Washington

Thomas McKean, 1734-1817., 1777-1890

George Washington, Vaughan-Sinclair Portrait, Gilbert Stuart, 1795, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA, North America

George Washington (1732-1799). First president of the United States (1789-1797). Commander-in-chief of the revolutionary Continental Army in the American War of Independence (1775-1783). Portrait. Engraving by Vernier. Panorama Universal. History of the United States of America, from 1st edition of Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Etats-Unis d'Amrique in 1837. Spanish edition, printed in Barcelona, 1850.

William Edgar Marshall after Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, 1862 George Washington

George Washington, first President of the United States.. Stuart, Gilbert (1755-1828). Prints. 1850. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799

Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860). Prints, Portraits. 1801. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

James Madison, fourth President of the United States, (early 20th century).Artist: Gordon Ross

George Washington served as commander in chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and he was the first president of the United States (1789-1797). .

Thomas Jefferson.. Desnoyers, Auguste Gaspard Louis (1779-1857). Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Portrait of George Washington (1723-1799) First President of the United States, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and on of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Painted by Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860) American artist and museum keeper. Dated 18th Century

James Madison 1751-1936, American politician and political philosopher, fourth President of the United States 1809-1817. Portrait of Gilbert Stuart 1754-1828, 1805-1807.

Portrait Of Dr Joseph Priestly (1733-1804), 1800 British School, Oil Painting, Portrait, Male

Portrait of Abraham Rees (1743-1825) a Welsh non-conformist minister, and complier of Rees's Cyclopaedia. Dated 19th century

Egbert Benson ca. 1794 John Vanderlyn American. Egbert Benson 13045

George Washington (after Gilbert Stuart) James Frothingham (American, 1786-1864). George Washington (after Gilbert Stuart), ca. 1860. Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 25 3/16 in. (76.5 x 64 cm). American Art ca. 1860

American Revolution. George Washington, by Charles Peale Polk, American painting, oil on canvas, 1780. The portrait is based on a 1787 work by his uncle, Charles Willson Peale, who trained Polk, his orphaned nephew, as a portrait painter. Polk produced fifty-seven copies of Washington portraits (BSLOC_2019_4_5)

George Washington.. Maurin, Nicolas-Eustache (1799-1850). Prints. 1830. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Robert Liston. Dated: 1800. Dimensions: overall: 73.8 x 61 cm (29 1/16 x 24 in.) framed: 90.5 x 78.1 x 6 cm (35 5/8 x 30 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: GILBERT STUART.

President George Washington 1893 Mathevon et Bouvard. President George Washington 228744

Warren Hastings, 6 December 1732, 22 August 1818, an English statesman, was the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William, Bengal, the Chairman...

George Washington (1732-1799) First president of the United States

Franz Josef HAYDN, 1732-1809 Austrian composer, 19th century engraving

George Washington by Gilbert Stuart

portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Gilbert Stuart, who was the premier portraitist of the early republic. Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 - July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801-1809).

George Washington. Artist: Charles Willson Peale (American, Chester, Maryland 1741-1827 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Dimensions: plate: 7 7/16 x 5 13/16 in. (18.9 x 14.7 cm)sheet: 11 x 8 5/8 in. (28 x 21.9 cm). Sitter: George Washington (American, 1732-1799). Date: 1787. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

George Washington, 1732 - 1799, first President of the United States of America from 1789 to 1797, historic wood engraving, about 1897

James Madison. Copy of engraving by James Mitan after John Trumbull, published 1808.. 1931 - 1932.

Portrait, Alexander Hamilton , Portrait paintings, Statesmen, Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. Frank Cousins Glass Plate Negatives Collection

Historical drawing, US-American history, 18th century, portrait of George Washington, 1732 - 1799, the first president of the United States of America

George Washington copy of the Stuart Gilbert painting. Unknown maker, American

George Washington, US President from an illustration of 1812

George Washington. Copy of engraving by James Mitan after John Trumbull, published 1808.. 1931 - 1932.

Currier & Ives Illustration 19th Century. George Washington first president of the united states

Portrait of United States President, James Madison.Oil on canvas painted by Gilbert Stuart (1755 1828), who made additional copies after completion of the work. Date c. 180507

Astor was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in America. He went to the United States following the American Revolutionary War and built a fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region and Canada, and later expanded into the American West and Pacific coast. In 1816, he joined the opium smuggling trade. His American Fur Company purchased ten tons of Turkish opium, then shipped the contraband item to Canton (Guangzhou). In the early 19th century, he diversified into New York City real estate and later became a famed patron of the arts.

Gentleman, possibly Robert Goldsborough(1740-1798). Artist: James Peale, American, 1749-1831

James Duane, 1733 - 1797. American Revolutionary leader, attorney and jurist. He was also the 44th Mayor of New York. After the portrait by John Trumbull.

Washington, 1777 - 1890, 1777 - 1890; George Washington, 1732-1799

Dr. Philip Syng Physick by Thomas Sully, 1783-1872

Colonel Francis Barber U.S.A., by James Herring (1794-1867)., 1777 - 1890

Alexander Hamilton, painted 1806

Richard Thomas III 1796 James Peale American The sitter (1744-1832) was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly and the United States Congress. For his service during the revolutionary war, he was dubbed "the Fighting Quaker.". Richard Thomas III 11722

James Madison (1751-1836), Fourth President of the United States 1809-17, head and shoulders Portrait, oil on canvas Painting by Chester Harding, 1829

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Stock Montage, Inc.

A stipple engraving of George Washington, created by Gilbert Stuart in 1870. Published by George Edward Perine in New York

JOHN ADAMS, by John Trumbull, 1793, American painting, oil on canvas. The painting was made after Adam's one-term Presidency from 1797-1801 (BSLOC_2019_5_53)

Richard Henry Lee was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain. 1800 Charles Wilson Peale

British Admiral Richard Howe

Stefan WOLHEBEN, Burgermeister of Vienna, Austria, during the time of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 17181792, British aristocrat and politician, inventor of the sandwich. Cook named the sandwich islands after him. Johann Zoffany or Zauffelij 17331810, German painter, mainly in England.

Alexander Hamilton ca. 1806 John Trumbull (1756-1843 American) White House, Washington, D.C., USA

George Washington. Date/Period: 1785. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 90.2 cm (35.5 in); Width: 69.9 cm (27.5 in) (Framed: Height: 101.6 cm (40 in); Width: 81.6 cm (32.1 in); Depth: 6.4 cm (2.5 in) ). Author: ROBERT EDGE PINE.

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) an American Founding Father, President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Painted by Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) an American painter. Dated 19th Century

Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1795 Archibald Robertson American, Scottish. Portrait of a Gentleman. Archibald Robertson (American, Moneymusk, Scotland 1765-1835 New York). American. ca. 1795. Watercolor on ivory

GeorgeWashington. Engraver: Cornelius Tiebout, American, ca. 1773-1830 After: Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828 Subject: George Washington, American, 1732-1799, LL.D. 1781

'Geo. Washington', 1927. Creator: Unknown.

Charles Willson Peale Self-Portrait. Date/Period: Ca. 1791. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 848 mm (33.38 in); Width: 721 mm (28.38 in).

Asher Brown Durand / 'Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States', Oil on canvas. Museum: NATIONAL GALLERY, WASHINGTON D. C., USA.

Admiral Richard Howe 1st Earl Howe 1726 to 1799 British Admiral Engraved by W T Fry after Gainsbro Dupoint From the book National Portrait Gallery volume III published c 1835

Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson, c 1821 Thomas Jefferson

Portrait of a Man George Romney British The costume, a white linen shirt, cravat, and vest, and a brown coat with gold braid and gilt buttons, suggests a possible date, but the sitter's identity may never be known. The dark background adds a sense of gravity.. Portrait of a Man 437499

Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1795 James Peale American. Portrait of a Gentleman 15137

Benjamin Franklin: American statesman and philosopher. Portrait by N. Currier 1847. lithograph, hand coloured.

George Washington.. Wright, Joseph (1756-1793). 1888. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Washington, George, 1732-1799

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull

George Washington The Munro-Lenox Portrait, created by Gilbert Stuart around 1800. Oil painting

John James Gambier 1st Baron Gambier 1756 to 1833 English admiral, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton in front of the ten dollar bill

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist and Whig politician. Author of 'The Rivals' and of 'The Duenna' a comic opera-play produced at Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1775. Proprietor of Drury Lane after David Garrick. Friend of Charles James Fox. Engraving after the portrait by Joshua Reynolds.

Alexander Hamilton, by John Trumbull, 1806, American painting, oil on canvas. This painting is one of a series of Hamilton portraits by Trumbull between 1804 to 1808, all based on Joseph Ceracchi's marble sculpture of 1794 (BSLOC_2019_4_83)

Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. Reproduction of a painting by Rembrandt Peale . ca. 1805

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