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Historical Portraits of U.S. Presidents

Vintage portraits featuring a notable U.S. president, emphasizing formal attire and classic photography styles from the 19th century.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States
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Daniel Webster , Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852Rutherford B. Hayes. Date: 1881. oil on canvas. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES.Sir William Bowman. Photograph by Maull & Polyblank.Henry Clay. Dated: c. 1840. Dimensions: overall: 20.9 x 13.3 cm (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.). Medium: graphite with gray wash on wove paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Wesley Jarvis.Abraham Lincoln President of the United States circa 1862Hon Abraham Lincoln, Born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809 Published 1860 United States. Wood engraving on paper . Winslow HomerOddfellow, c. 1840s-1850s. America. Daguerreotype, half-plate; overall: 14 x 10.8 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.).John Cabell Breckinridge. oil on canvas. Date: after 1860. Museum: NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.William M. Evarts, U.S. Secretary of State, March 12, 1877 to March 7, 1881Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), French Aristocrat and Military Officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolution, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Steel Engraving, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of EuRev. E.J. BulginHonorable Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, circa 1868Portrait Of President Abraham Lincoln Seated Taken By Matthew Brady In 1864 In Black Oval Wood Picture FrameU.S.-President Ulysses Simpson Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax, historical engraving, circa 1870Frederick Douglass Made 1847-1852 United States. In 1839 Louis-Jacques-MandÈ Daguerre announced the perfection of the daguerreotype, a photographic process that employed a silver-coated copperplate sensitive to light. This new artistic process was celebrated for its remarkably sharp detail and praised as a ìdemocratic artî that brought portraiture into reach for the masses. Within a few years, thousands of daguerrean portrait studios had sprung up all over the United States, among them the one that Samuel J. Miller owned in Akron, Ohio. Although most of the likenesses made in commercial studios were formulaic and not very revealing of the subjectís character, this portrait of Frederick Douglassóan escaped slave who had become a lauded speaker, writer, and abolitionist agitatoróis a striking exception. Northeastern Ohio was a center of abolitionism prior to the Civil War, and Douglass knew that this picture, one of an astonishing number that he commissioned or posed for, would be seen bJefferson Davis (1808-89), President of the Confederate States during American Civil War, Head and Shoulders Portrait during portrait session at Davis' home Beauvoir, near Biloxi, Mississippi, USA, Edward L. Wilson, 18851800s 1860s GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT COMMANDING UNION OFFICER DURING AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND 18TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATESEdward Ranstead Jones 1847 Walter Gould. Edward Ranstead Jones 15070Engraving showing the Cabinet of then Prime Minister, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869). The Earl is in the centre image and surrounding him are (from top left, clockwise): Spencer Horatio Walpole; the Duke of Buckingham; Lord Stanley; Sir J. Pakington; the Earl of Malmesbury and General Peel. Date: 1867Johannes Brahms, (1833-1897), German composer, (standing), Eduard Remenyi, (1828-1898), Hungarian violinist. Halftone from a photographHenry Highland Garnet (1815-1882). African American abolitionistGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, 1813 - 1901, Italian composer, digitally edited after a photograh by NadarJoseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 ñ August 1, 1887) was the first African American to serve in the United States House of Representatives, the second black person to serve in the United States CongressPortrait Presidents Of The United StatesUnited States president Abraham Lincoln16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865Close up of the statue of President Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, America, USAAbraham Lincoln , Presidents, Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865James Buchanan, Democratic candidate for President of the United States | Library of Congressportrait of the American president Jackson portrait of the American president Jackson on dollar bills close-up Copyright: xZoonar.com/IVASHUTINx 9192719Wm. Harris, Jr. presents John Drinkwaters Abraham Lincoln 1900