| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
 Noah Webster (1758-1843), writer, dictionary maker, by James Herring (1833).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Sequoia (c1770-1843) developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language. Artist: Henry Inman (c1830).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
John J Pershing (1860-1948), USA WW1 general, by Sir William Orpen (c1919).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Gallery of famous people.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Orson Wells (1915-1985) in the form of a poster (1948) by Gus Anton. Wells was a stage and movie actor and writer. This is from an exhibition of famous people portraits.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) by Max Westfield in 1944. Einstein was a Swiss physicist who revolutionised physics between 1905 and 1915.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Walt Disney (1901-1966), a cartoon film maker, by Henry Major (c1928). Disney is shown being drawn by Micky Mouse, one of his creations.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican artist, by Magda Pach (1933).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), USA writer, by Joe Davidson (1923, terracotta).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Ernest Hemingway (writer, 1899-1961) by Henry Strater (1930). Hemingway travelled around the world and committed suicide back in the USA.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Linus Pauling (1901-1994), the only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. His work explained why atoms produce different elements. Artist: Alice Neel (1969).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), movie actor, by Everett Raymond Kinstler (1982).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Katharine Hepburn's Acadamy Awards for "Morning Glory" (1933).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Robert F Kennedy (1925-1968), former attorny general and presidential candidate when assassinated, by Gardner Cox (1968).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Alexander Hamilton (c1757-1804), politician who had a musical written about him, by John Trumbull (1806). Hamilton died after being shot in a duel.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), inventor and businessman, by Abraham Archibald Anderson (1890).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
George Gershwin (1898-1937), musician, by Arthur Kauffmann (1936).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Elvis Presley (1935-1977), rock and roll singer. The artist is Ralph Wolfe Cowan (seating 1968, painting completed and donated by artist, 1988).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), movie actor and socialite, by Augustus John (1930).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Joan Baez (born 1941), folk singer, song writer, by Russell Hoban (1962).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Thelonius Monk (1917-1982), jazz pianist, by Boris Chaliapin (1964).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Lottie Lenya (born in Austria, 1898-1981), stage actress and singer, by Saul Bolasni (c1954). Lenya influenced Marlene Dietrich and later fled Nazi Germany.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), jazz trumpeter, by Marc Klionsky (1988).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Lena Horne (1917-2010), jazz singer and civil rights activist, by Edward Biberman (1947).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Part of the original building.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Ballerinas" (c1933) by Zelda Fitzgerald (1900-1948). The artist was the wife of writer, F Scott Fitzgerald.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Lillian Evanti" (1940) by Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998). Evanti was an opera singer.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Self Portrait" (1923) by Frances Cranmer Greenman (1890-1981), a portait artist.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Manifest Destiny" (2004) by Alexis Rockman (born 1962) is a painting about the environmental issues faced by North America.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Dust Bowl" (1933) by Alexandre Hogue (1898-1994) is a painting about the ecological devastation in the USA during the 1930s.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The Gift" (1922) by Ernest L Blumenscein (1874-1960).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Amarilla" (1927) by Joseph A Fleck (1892-1977) from Austria.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Corn Dance, Taos Pueblo" (1934) by Norman S Chamberlain (1887-1961).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"After Them" (1928) by Walter Ufer (1876-1936).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail from "After Them" (Walter Ufer).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Sunset Dance, Ceremony to the Evening Sun" (1924) by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Riders at Sunset" (1935-1945) by E Martin Hennings (1886-1956).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail of a figure on a horse from "Riders at Sunset" (E Martin Hennings).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Red pepper Time" (c1930) by Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (1874-1952).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The Purple Dress" (c1910) by William Glackens (1870-1938).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The White Ballet" (1904) by Everett Shinn (1876-1953), a painter influenced by French artists, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Snow Fields, Winter in the Berkshires" (1909) by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"In The Garden" (c1894) by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Spring" (1890) by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The South Ledges, Appledore" (1913) by Childe Hassam (1859-1935).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail of a woman with a hat from "The South Ledges, Appledore" (Childe Hassam).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Novembre, Etaples" (c1885) by Walter Gay (1856-1937).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail of a woman gardening from "Novembre, Etaples" (Walter Gay).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Valparaiso Harbour" (1866) by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Sundown" (1884) by George Inness (1825-1894).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The Moose Chase" (1888) by George de Forest Brush (1855-1941).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"A Dog Swap" (1881) by Richard Norris Brooke (1847-1920).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Niagara" (1889) by George Inness.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah" (c1844) by Miner Kilbourne Kellog (1814-1889).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail from "The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah" (Miner Kilbourne Kellog).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Cafe at Biskra, Algeria" (1884) by Frederic Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Aurora Borealis" (1865) by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"By The Seaside, New Jersey Shore" (1883) by Francis A Silva (1835-1886).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail of a boat from "By The Seaside, New Jersey Shore" (Francis A Silva).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Shimomura Crossing the Delaware" (2010), a self prortraIt, by Roger Shimomura (born 1939), a Japanese-American artist.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Old Black Joe" (1943) by Horace Pippin (1888-1946). Pippin was from a former slave family and was disabled after fighting in WW1. He painted by using his left hand to guide his right hand.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Midnight Sun, Lofoten" (1937) by William H Johnson (1901-1970).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City" (1946) by Grandma Moses (born Anna Mary Robertson Moses, 1860-1961). Moses was a folk artist who began painting at age 78.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Cape Cod Morning" (1950) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"People in the Sea" (1960) by Edward Hopper.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail from "People in the Sea" (Edward Hopper).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Storm King on the Hudson" (1866) by Samuel Colman (1832-1920).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Detail of a boat from "Storm King on the Hudson" (Samuel Colman)
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Black Knife, an Apache Warrior" (1846) by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
"Greenwood Lake" (1875) by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Joan Crawford (1904-1977) and Clark Gable (1901-1960), movie actors, from a photo exhibition of the Golden Age of Cinema stars by photographer, George Hurrell (1904-1992). This photo dates from 1936.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), movie actor (1937).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), movie actor (1936).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949), tap dancer (1935).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984), former swimmer and later actor who first played Tarzan (photo, 1935).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish born movie actor (1930).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Jean Harlow (1911-1937), movie actor (1934).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr (1909-2000), movie actor (c1933).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, 1911-1970), movie actor (1937).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Joan Crawford (1904-1977), movie actor (1936).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : National Portrait Gallery
|
 |
Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996), movie actor (c1937).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Foggy Bottom
|
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The Foggy Bottom area of the city.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Foggy Bottom
|
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Traditional houses in Foggy Bottom.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Foggy Bottom
Site / Event : Watergate
|
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The Watergate Hotel complex where events led to the resignation of President Nixon.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Foggy Bottom
Site / Event : Watergate
|
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Entrance to the Watergate Hotel.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
District : Foggy Bottom
|
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House.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
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Metro station in the Downtown area.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
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Car park on 10th Street.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
|
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The FBI building.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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Ford's Theatre in the centre of the city.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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The spacious interior.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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The theatre is famous as the site where the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot in 1865.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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The box where Abraham Lincoln (the 16th USA President) was sitting when he was assassinated in 1865.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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View of the seating in Lincoln's box.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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The single shot gun used to kill Lincoln. The Assassin was a well known actor, John Wilkes Booth, a pro-slavery, white supremacist.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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Theatre tickets for 14 April 1865, the day of the Assassination.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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Photograph of the family of Abraham Lincoln in the theatre museum.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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Lincoln with his son, Willie.
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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The assassin, John Wilkes Booth (1838-1865).
|
2024 |
| United States of America |
State / Province : District of Columbia
City / Town : Washington DC
Site / Event : Ford's Theatre
|
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Items used by Lincoln's friend and bodyguard.
|
2024 |
