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Abigail Smith Adams (Mrs. John Adams) 1800/1815 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | ![]() Abigail Adams (nee Smith; November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth. She was the first Second Lady of the United States, and the second First Lady of the United States. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Anna Payne Cutts 1804 The White House Collection Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
![]() | Benjamin West circa 1785 National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Charles Lee or Gentleman of the Lee Family 1794–1803 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Charles Wilkes ca. 1794 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Daniel Webster 1825 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]() Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator during the nation's Antebellum Period. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | David Sears, Jr. ca. 1815 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
General Peter Gansevoort 1794 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art Utica, NY | ![]() Peter Gansevoort (July 17, 1749 – July 2, 1812) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | George Heathcote ca. 1785 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | George Washington ca. 1795–96 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | ![]() When he first sat for Stuart, President George Washington was sixty-three years old and near the end of his second term of office. Stuart subscribed to prevailing theories about physiognomy, which held that a study of the outward body could reveal a person's inner qualities. It took all of Stuart's colloquial powers to engage Washington in... | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Gilbert Stuart