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Vogue Photographers 1946

Vogue Photographers 1946

Irving Penn
Photograph
1946
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Irving Penn
Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
Henry James

Henry James

Alice M. Boughton
Photograph
1905
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

General Francis Marion In His Swamp Encampment Inviting A British Officer To Dinner

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Winterthur Museum
William Franklin Herrin

William Franklin Herrin

Rupert Schmid
Sculpture
1898
Owner: de Young Museum
David Crockett

David Crockett

Lorine Goodwin
Painting
1911
Owner: Tennessee State Museum

Anton Seidl

Frank Eugene
Painting
1896
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Mary Derby

Mary Derby

Peter Marsh
Painting
1840
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Nathan Welby Fiske

Albert Gallatin Hoit
Painting
1835-45
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Edward Greene Malbone

Edward Greene Malbone

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: Providence Athenaeum

Isaiah Folger

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association
Testing Detente

Testing Detente

Jack Davis
Painting
1974
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - George Bancroft

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - George Bancroft

John Plumbe
Print
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, the First President

George H. Lovett
Medal
1840-94
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ole Bornemann Bull

Jakob H. Fjelde
Sculpture
1896
Owner: Vesterheim, Norwegian-American Museum

William T. Sherman

Farsky
Painting
1894
Owner: Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Ralph Woehrman
Drawing
1976
Owner: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Solomon Eytinge
Painting
c. 1875
Owner: Butler Library, Columbia University

Sequoya

Vinnie Ream Hoxie
Sculpture
1917?
Owner: U.S. Capitol

Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
1919
Owner: Private Collection
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Thomas Ball
Sculpture
1866?

Benjamin Franklin (Bust)

Pierre Joseph Chardigny
Sculpture
1851
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Henry J. Raymond

Henry J. Raymond

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection

Helen Hayes

Franz Felix
Painting
1931
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

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    • United States. Navy  3141
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    • Stuart, Gilbert  1963
    • Bache, William  1923
    • Sargent, John Singer  1900
    • Burbank, Elbridge Ayer  1512
    • Sully, Thomas  1124
    • Peale, Charles Willson  1033
    • Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de  1033
    • Catlin, George  1007
    • Lincoln, Abraham  950
    • Unidentified Girl  911
    • Huntington, Daniel  761
    • Copley, John Singleton  717
    • Warren, Minnie  695
    • Peale, Rembrandt  694
    • Stratton, Lavinia Warren  690
    • Healy, George Peter Alexander  689
    • Nutt, George Washington Morrison  667
    • Franklin, Benjamin  643
    • Stratton, Charles Sherwood  642
    • Trumbull, John  618
    • Unidentified Boy  556
    • Inman, Henry  480
    • Johnson, Lyndon Baines  465
    • Jarvis, John Wesley  458
    • Harding, Chester  449
    • King, Charles Bird  439
    • Edouart, Auguste  438
    • Walkowitz, Abraham  427
    • Webster, Daniel  413
    • Petersen, Christian  400
    • Whistler, James Abbott McNeill  380
    • Unidentified Child  372
    • Houdon, Jean-Antoine  370
    • Chaliapin, Boris  365
    • Sharples, James  363
    • Cox, Gardner  362
    • Jackson, Andrew  351
    • Brady, Mathew B.  349
    • Peale, James  349
    • West, Benjamin  348
    • Duncan, Isadora  344
    • Eichholtz, Jacob  321
    • Hirschfeld, Al  321
    • Van Vechten, Carl  316
    • Warhol, Andy  316
    • Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite  313
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    • Johnson, Eastman  300
    • Morse, Samuel Finley Breese  296
    • Sharp, Joseph Henry  295
    • Woolf, Samuel Johnson  294
    • Chase, William Merritt  287
    • Unidentified Native American Man  285
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    • Unidentified Group  279
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    • Frueh, Alfred J.  261
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    • Unidentified Sitter  219
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    • French, Daniel Chester  212
    • Unidentified Men  211
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    • Davidson, Jo  207
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    • 1580s  29
    • 1590s  31
    • 1600s  43
    • 1610s  60
    • 1620s  22
    • 1630s  24
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    • 1660s  30
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    • 1730s  358
    • 1740s  567
    • 1750s  1049
    • 1760s  1284
    • 1770s  1912
    • 1780s  2687
    • 1790s  4715
    • 1800s  8826
    • 1810s  6032
    • 1820s  8080
    • 1830s  10465
    • 1840s  10987
    • 1850s  10103
    • 1860s  15173
    • 1870s  13475
    • 1880s  8859
    • 1890s  6725
    • 1900s  9778
    • 1910s  6978
    • 1920s  7141
    • 1930s  7665
    • 1940s  6450
    • 1950s  4723
    • 1960s  5094
    • 1970s  3858
    • 1980s  2717
    • 1990s  1712
    • 2000s  1309
    • 2010s  528
    • 2020s  54
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      Frequency Alphabetical
    • Paintings  71238
    • Drawings  15411
    • Photographs  13848
    • Sculpture  10303
    • Miniatures  7645
    • Exterior views  6462
    • Prints  5564
    • Silhouettes  4155
    • Medals  535
    • Decorative arts  334
    • Maps  247
    • Mirrors  232
    • Sheet music  200
    • Documents  178
    • Collages (visual works)  166
    • Time-Based Media  113
    • Books  91
    • Positive Transparency  81
    • Mixed media  75
    • Travel guidebooks  66
    • Artists' materials  40
    • Periodicals  31
    • Artifacts  30
    • Textiles  23
    • Assemblages (sculpture)  15
    • Mosaics (visual works)  14
    • Coins (money)  13
    • Dictionaries  2
    • Jewelry  2
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