Skip to main content

Smithsonian Website

Donate

Home
National Portrait Gallery
  • Support Us
  • About Us
  • Host An Event
  • Podcast
  • Get Involved
  • Press Room
  • Visit
    Visit
    • Visiting the Museum
    • SMARTIFY App
    • Accessibility
    • Docent Tours
    • Museum Shop
    • Café
    facade of the museum
  • Exhibitions
    Exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Traveling Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Online Exhibitions
    • In Memoriam
    Exhibition space with yellow panels displaying portraits.
    What's On

    Explore the museum's diverse and wide-ranging exhibitions.

  • Events
    Events
    • Full Calendar
    • Adult Programs
    • Family Programs
    Day of the Dead dancers
  • The Portraits
    The Portraits
    • Portrait Search
    • Open Access
    • Bache Album
    • Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns
    • Outgoing Loan Program Policy
    • Rights & Reproductions
    • Publications
    • Lunder Conservation Center
    • Contact Us
    Man with taking a portrait from a rack of many artworks
    Search Our Collections

    Thousands of works of art, artifacts and archival materials are available for the study of portraiture.

  • Research
    Research
    • PORTAL
    • Catalog of American Portraits
    • AA/PG Library
    • Linked Open Data
    Perfromance art in the Great Hall
  • Learn
    Learn
    • Participate@Home
    • Access Programs
    • Adults
    • Families
    • Teachers & Students
    • Teens
    Docent working with children on crafts
    Explore with Us

    Visitors of all ages can learn about portraiture through a variety of weekly public programs to create art, tell stories, and explore the museum.

  • Home
  • The Portraits
  • Collection Search

Portrait Search

Advanced Search (Smithsonian Collections Search Center)
Reset Search

The Portraits
  • Portrait Search
  • Open Access
  • Bache Album
  • Shared Stewardship and Ethical Returns
  • Outgoing Loan Program Policy
  • Rights & Reproductions
  • Publications
  • Lunder Conservation Center
  • Contact Us
Grand Reception at the White House, January, 1862

Grand Reception at the White House, January, 1862

Print
1862
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
President Lincoln and his Cabinet

President Lincoln and his Cabinet

Print
1866
National Portrait Gallery
Edward Herline Lithography Company
Confederate Political Leaders and Generals

Confederate Political Leaders and Generals

Print
c. 1861-65
National Portrait Gallery
Charles Magnus
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet

Print
1866
National Portrait Gallery
Alexander Hay Ritchie
Andrew H. Foote

Andrew H. Foote

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-63
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Raphael Semmes

Raphael Semmes

Print
c. 1864
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
President James Buchanan and his cabinet

President James Buchanan and his cabinet

Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery
McClees & Vannerson James Earle McClees Julian Vannerson
Andrew Hull Foote

Andrew Hull Foote

Print
c. 1862-64
National Portrait Gallery
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company
Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Unidentified Artist
Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy

Photograph
c. 1860
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew B. Brady
John L. Worden

John L. Worden

Print
c. 1862-64
National Portrait Gallery
Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company
Andrew H. Foote

Andrew H. Foote

Photographic Negative
c. 1860-70
National Portrait Gallery
Mathew Brady Studio
Council of War

Council of War

Print
1865
National Portrait Gallery
Peter Kramer

Pages

  • « first
  • ‹ previous
  • …
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • …
  • next ›
  • last »

Selected Filter

Remove facets below

  • Clear All
  • Name:"United States. Navy"
  • Date:"1860s"

Refine Your Search

  • Name
      Frequency Alphabetical
    • Mathew Brady Studio  84
    • United States. Army  40
    • Farragut, David Glasgow  20
    • Welles, Gideon  18
    • Brady, Mathew B.  16
    • Porter, David Dixon  16
    • Wilkes, Charles  14
    • Confederate States of America  13
    • Foote, Andrew Hull  12
    • Chase, Salmon Portland  10
    • Lincoln, Abraham  10
    • Maury, Matthew Fontaine  10
    • Du Pont, Samuel Francis  9
    • Ehrgott & Forbriger Lithography Company  9
    • Seward, William Henry  9
    • Stanton, Edwin McMasters  9
    • Semmes, Raphael  8
    • Davis, Jefferson  7
    • Fredricks, Charles DeForest  7
    • Hollins, George Nichols  7
    • Kennedy, John Pendleton  7
    • Bancroft, George  6
    • Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant  6
    • Blair, Montgomery  6
    • Lee, Robert Edward  6
    • Magruder, John Bankhead  6
    • McCulloch, Benjamin  6
    • Price, Sterling  6
    • Smith, Caleb Blood  6
    • Worden, John Lorimer  6
    • Bates, Edward  5
    • Bryant, William Cullen  5
    • Cooper, James Fenimore  5
    • Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard  5
    • Floyd, John Buchanan  5
    • Hardee, William Joseph  5
    • Johnston, Joseph Eggleston  5
    • Louis Prang Lithography Company  5
    • Paulding, Hiram  5
    • Polk, Leonidas  5
    • Stephens, Alexander Hamilton  5
    • Bailey, Theodorus  4
    • Boggs, Charles Stuart  4
    • Emerson, Ralph Waldo  4
    • Grant, Ulysses Simpson  4
    • Hawthorne, Nathaniel  4
    • Holmes, Oliver Wendell  4
    • Irving, Washington  4
    • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth  4
  • Date
      Frequency Alphabetical
    • 1830s  2
    • 1840s  2
    • 1850s  44
    • 1870s  129
    • 1880s  82
    • 1890s  3
    • 1900s  2
    • 1910s  1
    • 1940s  1
    • 1950s  1
    • See All
  • Classification
      Frequency Alphabetical
    • Photographs  117
    • Prints  57
    • Exterior views  20
    • Drawings  6
    • Paintings  6
    • Maps  3
    • Sculpture  1
    • Silhouettes  1
    • See All
  • Gallery Location
      Frequency Alphabetical
    • National Portrait Gallery Collection  188
    • Currently not on view  185
    • Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900  2
    • Meserve Collection Highlights: Modern Prints form Mathew Brady’s Portrait Negatives  1
    • NPG, East Gallery 110c  1
    • NPG, East Gallery 111  1
    • NPG, East Gallery 124  1
    • See All
×

Frequency Alphabetical
Culture
×

Frequency Alphabetical
Culture
×

Frequency Alphabetical
Culture
×

Frequency Alphabetical
Culture
×

Search Tips

Enter key words, avoiding the use of terms like national, portrait, gallery, artist and sitter.

Use quotation marks to ensure all words are included, in exact order, for example “voting rights” or “edwin forrest as macbeth”.

Use a "+" or "-" in front of each word to ensure the search term MUST or MUST NOT be included, for example +baseball -photograph or “civil war” -Brady.

Use filters to narrow search results. For NAMES, search on last name only, and then use the Name filter to find the sitter or artist you are looking for.

Go to Advanced Search redirects you to the Smithsonian Collections Search Center, which provides additional search options. Results are pre-filtered on the National Portrait Gallery collection.

Only return images available through Open Access limits results to objects with Open Access images. Open Access images are in the public domain, meaning they are free of copyright restrictions, and you can use them for any purpose, free of charge. They are downloadable at the maximum size available.

Only return results on view in the museum limits results to National Portrait Gallery objects that are currently on view. To find objects on view that are on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, search the Catalog of American Portraits, under Research.

Home Smithsonian Institution

Museum Location

National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20001

Hours

Open 7 days a week
11:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Closed Dec. 25

Sign up for our newsletter:

sign up button
We use MailChimp, a third party e-newsletter service. Their Privacy Policy & Terms of Use apply to your use of this service.

  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • iTunes
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
Back to Top