portrait paintings

Algernoon Piercy [i.e. Algernon Percy], Earl of Northumberland & c. / ...

Sir Algernon Percy, half-length portrait, facing right, wearing armor. No. 45.

Louis Quinze--Roy de France et de Navarre

After a painting by Gobert. Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection. LeBlanc, no. 362.

Marie Therese Reine de Hongrie..

Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, half-length portrait, facing right. After a painting by Mytens.

Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit cœlo fulme...

Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing front; map and his spectacles are on the table.

Portrait of Master Hare painted by Sir Joshna Reynolds ; engrav'd by R...

Print shows Francis George Hare, three-quarter length portrait, facing left with right hand raised, in landscape with trees. After painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Title from online source. Ownership stamp on v... more

Michel-Ange / Michel-Ange pinxt. ; J.L. Potrelle delt. et sculpt.

Michelangelo, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.

Philip Schuyler Esq'r. maj'r. gen'l. in the American service / Leney s...

Print shows Philip Schuyler, bust portrait, facing left; in oval. Title from item. After ca. 1792 miniature painted by John Trumbull. Published in Port Folio magazine, 1810 (June). Stauffer, 1848 Published in: ... more

Charlotte Brontë

Title from item. Reproduction of a painting by George Richards, 1850. Stamped on verso: Sewell Collection. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

John Adams, second president of the United States

Title from another impression. From another impression "From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston." Publication information from the American Antiquarian Society. Inscribed in... more

Andrew Jackson engraved by James B. Longacre from an original picture ...

Print shows Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Title from item. Mounted with: PGA - Longacre (J.B.) Andrew Jackson of Tennessee. Stamped on verso: L.C. Division of Prints. Stampe... more

[Interior wall with architectural ornaments of the U.S. Capitol buildi...

Title devised by Library staff. Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 668. (DLC/PP-1996:032.13). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress).

Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States

Print shows Thomas Jefferson, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing slightly left, with hand folded and resting on the desk, on which are books and papers, and a bust sculpture of Benjamin Franklin. Titl... more

John Adams, second president of the United States

Print shows John Adams, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, with book in hand. Title from item. From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston. Printed on lower right corne... more

James Monroe, fifth president of the United States

Print shows James Monroe, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, holding papers in right hand. Title from item. From the original series painted by Stuart for the Messrs. Doggett of Boston. Printed... more

[James Monroe, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing slightly l...

Original study in oil by Henry Inman of head of Columbia designed for ...

Title from item. Inscribed in ink on accompanying board: Original study in oil by Henry Inman of head of Columbia designed for U.S. coins. Also inscribed in ink on accompanying board: The above is in the handwr... more

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland / engraved by J. Cochran ; from th...

Sir Henry Percy, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left.

O'-Check-Ka or Four Legs Head Chief of the Winnebagoes on Winnebago La...

O'-Check-Ka or Four Legs, full length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing traditional dress and holding rifle, 1827. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of the most ce... more

Kee-O-Kuck or the Watching Fox the present Chief of the Sauk tribe and...

Kee-O-Kuck or the Watching Fox, full length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, wearing traditional dress, at Prairie du Chien, 1825. Illus. in: The aboriginal port-folio : a collection of portraits of th... more

Major general Philip Schuyler / painted by J. Trumbull ; engraved by T...

Print shows Philip Schuyler, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform. Title from item. Facsimile of signature below title. After ca. 1792 miniature painted by John Trumbull.

Hon. Cadwallader D. Colden Esqr. / Painted by Waldo & Jewett ; Eng by ...

Cadwallader D. Colden, half-length portrait, facing slightly left. After a painting by Samuel Waldo and William Jewett.

Henry Clay / painted by G. Linen ; engraved by J. Sartain. Philada.

Print showing Henry Clay, full-length portrait, sitting with legs crossed, facing front, with right arm resting on a table, and holding papers in lap with left hand. Title from item. Entered according to Act of... more

Henry Clay / painted by James Wise ; engraved by J. Sartain.

Print showing Henry Clay, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, gesturing with right hand, left hand resting on table; a globe and two books are on the floor in lower left corner. Title from ite... more

Addison / M. Dahl pinx, 1719.

Joseph Addison, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, writing. Photograph of painting by Michael Dahl.

[Napoleon I, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

[Fanny Longfellow, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Painting of James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

Case: scroll motif surrounded by flowers. Hallmark: Rinhart 20b. Date based on hallmark. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1998; (DLC/PP-1998:151.1). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). For... more

The Duchess of Devonshire 1784 Sir J. Reynolds, P.R.A. pinxt ; P. Ligh...

Print shows Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, with her infant daughter Georgiana Dorothy Cavendish. Title from item. Caption continues: From the picture in the Royal Collection. Ownership stam... more

James Madison / from the original portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

James Madison, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.

[Title page of History of the United States, vol. I, showing Christoph...

[Painting of John McAllister, Jr., by Anna C. Peale, head-and-shoulder...

Note found behind plate: Cleaned July 1974 with a solution of water, thiourea, and phospheric acid. Wm. B. Becker, Phila. Pa. Paper label on back of frame: The following was written on the back of this daguerre... more

Joshua Barney, U.S.N. / engraved by J. Gross from a drawing by W.G. Ar...

Print shows Joshua Barney, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing right, holding sword. Title from item. Based on a miniature by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Barney commissioned the miniature... more

Yokohama kenbutsu zue

Japanese print shows a foreign visitor standing outside a building in Yokohama, Japan. He is looking up and appears to be thinking, his thoughts depicted on the right, outside the space occupied by him, as a fr... more

James Kent

Copy photograph of a portrait painting by an unidentified artist.

Joseph Fesch, Cardinal Buonaparte, full-length portrait, seated, facin...

Stamped on mount: F. D'Atri, via Condotti no. 82, Roma. In album: Browning Collection of Portraits, etc., p. 42 (bottom right). Photograph of painting. Color laser copy reference surrogate for LOT 6633 is avail... more

George Washington Campbell, secretary of the treasury, 1814

Photograph of painting shows George Washington Campbell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Mary Queen of Scots / G. W. Wilson & Co.

Photograph of portrait painting shows Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length portrait, facing left. Title from item. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Olive Logan, actress and feminist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facin...

Photograph is reproduction of a portrait painting of Olive Logan. Reference print in BIOG FILE.

[Mrs. Jefferson Davis, full-length studio portrait, standing, facing s...

Title devised by Library staff. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (gift, Gist Blair, 1936); 1963 July.

[Maj. Gen. G.B. Cadwalader, half-length portrait, facing right]

Civil War Photograph Collection. Photoprint of painting. No. 5408.

James Kent / from the original painting by Chappel in the possession o...

James Kent, full-length portrait, seated at table, facing slightly left. Facsimile signature on piece.

Ph: Schuyler / painted by [Chappel, name scraped out] ; [eng'r, scrape...

Print shows Philip Schuyler, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing military uniform, map on table next to a fireplace and saddle on floor by the table, hat on chair in the background. Title from ... more

Your friend John Brown - "his soul is marching on" enlarged and painte...

Photograph shows reproduction of painting by J.W. Dodge, possibly John Wood Dodge, of abolitionist John Brown standing with hands in pockets. Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP... more

Your friend John Brown - "his soul is marching on" / enlarged and pain...

Photograph shows John Brown, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right with hands in pockets. Title from item. Entered According to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by J.W. Dodge, in the Clerks Of... more

Washington & Lincoln (Apotheosis)

Abraham Lincoln embracing George Washington as Washington holds a laurel wreath over Lincoln's head. Stamped on mount: S.J. Ferris, pinxt. Photo and Pub. by Phil. Pho. Co., 730 Chestnut. Copyright by J.A. Arthu... more

Dr. Martin Luther / photographed by C.S. Roshon, Harrisburg, Pa., from...

Martin Luther, half-length portrait, facing right. Copyright by D.C. Burnite. No. 404.

[The Peale family] / Julius F. Sachse fecit.

Print shows a reproduction of Charles Willson Peale's painting of his family, begun in 1773 and completed in 1809; it shows Peale seated at left at a table around which are gathered members of his family, with ... more

Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart ; engraved by H.B. Hall and G.E. ...

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in oval with rectangular frame. Title from item. Baker, 243 Hart, 393 Gift; Joseph Verner Reed; 1949.

T. Carlyle / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, Ber...

Photograph of painting shows Thomas Carlyle, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Title from item. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Jacob Albrecht, gründer der ev. gemeinschaft

Photographic reproduction of a portrait painting, head-and-shoulders of Jacob Albrecht (Albright). K30521 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.

[Charles Sumner, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left]

E(?)4714 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Edgar Parker.

Thomas Paine

Painting shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine, half-length portrait, facing left. Title from item. Photographic reproduction of a ca. 1859 painting attributed to Bass Otis, possibly after the Thomas Thomps... more

H. Berlioz / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl v. Sophus Williams, Berl...

Photograph of painting by Ernst Hader shows composer Hector Berlioz, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left Title from item. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

G.H. Lewes / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, Ber...

Photograph of painting of George Henry Lewes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Title from item. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Whistler in his studio

Photograph shows artist James McNeill Whistler painting in his studio, large painting of a woman behind him. Title from negative sleeve. Film copy negative: LC-J201-7. James and Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collect... more

The marriage of Queen Victoria, in the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace

[Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmo...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Van Dyck, Prinz Ruprecht von der Pfalz--Wien, Hofmuseum

Prince Rupert, full-length portrait, facing front, dog at his side. No. 1474. Reproduction of painting done 1631-1632.

G. Cuvier / E.Hader, pixnit ; photo. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, Berl...

Photograph of painting shows Baron Georges Cuvier, French naturalist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Printed on verso: George Baron von Cuvier; stamped: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, F... more

[Pierre Jean de Béranger, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front] /...

Title devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

[Alexander Graham Bell, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facin...

Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Alexander Graham Bell photographs. Photograph of 1882 painting by Lobrichon, Paris.

[Frederick Marryat, British naval officer and novelist, head-and-shoul...

[Madame de Staël, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / E. Hader...

Photograph of painting by E. Hader.

David Livingstone / E. Hader, pixnit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Willia...

Photograph of painting shows David Livingston, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Title from item. No. 602. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Ludwig, Freiherr v. Holberg / E. Hader, pinxit. ; phot. u. verl. v. So...

Photograph of painting shows Ludwig, Freiherr von Holberg, Danish poet and dramatist, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Refe... more

Secondat du Montesquieu / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus ...

Photograph of painting shows French political philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, head-and shoulders portrait, facing right. Title from item. No. 265. Stamped on verso: G... more

G.W.F. Hegel / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams, B...

Photograph of painting shows Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Title from item. No. 242. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Domenico Cimarosa, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front E. Hader,...

Title devised by Library staff. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

J. Stuart Mill / E. Hader, pinxit ; phot. u. verl. v. Sophus Williams,...

James McClurg, nat--1747 - ob--1823 / etched by Albert Rosenthal, Phil...

James McClurg, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. From a photograph of the original painting furnished by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmett.

John Dickinson, nat. 1732 - ob. 1808 / etched by Albert Rosenthal, Phi...

John Dickinson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right.

A Toltec princess / P. Fritel, pinx. ; photogravure, Gebbie & Husson C...

Young woman standing, facing left; holding a jug above a fountain. Copyright by Gebbie & Co. "From a drawing in the museum at Madrid." "America at time of invasion by Spain."

[Mrs. John B. Henderson, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Photograph of painting of Mary F. (Mary Foote) Henderson (1842-1931) by Benjamin Constant.

Col. Lovelace

Col. Richard Lovelace, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right.

Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Print shows Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Title from item. No. 936. Reproduction of 1845 painting by E. Magnus.

John Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front H. Sartorius

Title devised by Library staff. On card mount: Dennington, No. 947 Water St., Meadville, PA. Photograph of painting by H. Sartorius. Unpublished finding aid available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.

Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows an interior view of the Red Room in the White House, with portrait paintings of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, R.B. Hayes of Ohio, and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. No. 81289. Forms part of: Frances Benja... more

Coleridge / from a painting by Washington Allston in the possession of...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, half-length portrait, facing slightly right.

George Washington

George Washington, full-length portrait, with right arm extended holding sword, on horseback. Reproduction of painting: "Washington receiving a salute on the field of Trenton"(?).

[Galileo Galilei, half-length portrait, facing left]

Possibly a reproduction of a painting by Giusto Sustermans. "Edne. Alinari...no. 104." Captioned in Italian.

[Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, half-length portrait, facing right]

[Edward Jay Allen, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, facing rig...

Reproduction of a painting by John White Alexander.

Rose

Reproduction of a painting by Adolfo Müller-Ury showing a woman with flowers, head-and-shoulders portrait. W8930 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from back of print.

Marcella

Reproduction of a painting by Adolfo Müller-Ury showing a woman facing right, head-and-shoulders portrait. W8931 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item.

The South Carolina delegation in the first congress under the constitu...

Illustration show reproductions of portrait paintings of William Houghton Smith, Daniel Huger, and Thomas Sumter. Four of the portraits show Smith and Sumter at older ages. Artists represented are: John Trumbul... more

A. Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible presented by colored peop...

Photograph of a painting. R.D. Bayley, Battle Creek, Mich.

Field Marshal Count Yamagata, the von Moltke of Japan

Aritomo Yamagata, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right.

[Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left...

17386 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting(?).

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe's grandfather

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe's grandmother

Title devised. Photographic reproduction by Arnold Genthe of a painting by an unknown artist. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe's grandmother

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe's grandfather

Title devised. Photographic reproduction by Arnold Genthe of a painting by an unknown artist. Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

Purchase; Genthe Estate; 1942 or 1943.

Portrait painting of Arnold Genthe

[Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, half-length portrait, facing ...

21346 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Little, Brown & Co.

In confidence

Title continues: ... So those are your husband's ancestors aren't they impressive! (DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 29:513 (June 17, 1897).