Preview | Description | Artist | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Daniel Webster by James Henry Wright oil on canvas U.S. Senate Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Wright, James Henry | n, a prominent textile industrialist and philanthropist in New York City. The resolution was adopted by unanimous consent. | |
Niagara, The Table Rock–Winter by Regis-Francois Gignoux 1847 U.S. Senate Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Gignoux, Regis-Francois | Gignoux in all probability would have visited Niagara, the New World’s most famous landscape spectacle, before beginning his series of paintings of the falls. Skilled as he was in technical shortcuts, however, he would not have gone tramping about in the cold snow and dangerous ice to make sketches from nature as Frederic Church would do in 1856 in... | |
Nicholas Van Dyke by Jefferson David Chalfant oil on canvas U.S. Senate Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Chalfant, Jefferson David | This painting is one of two portraits of Nicholas Van Dyke executed by Jefferson David Chalfant, a prominent Delaware artist. In 1914 the great-granddaughters of Senator Van Dyke, among whom was Mary Saulsbury, the wife of Delaware Senator Willard Saulsbury, Jr., presented one of the paintings to the U.S. Senate and the other to the state of... | |
Telegraph by Constantino Brumidi 1862 U.S. Senate Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Brumidi, Constantino | Description: Two figures representing America and Europe clasp hands signalling the completion of the laying of the transatlantic cable. America, at right, is seated on land and wears a red cap. Beside her is an eagle and an anchor. Europe, at left, is seated on an ox in the water. At center a cherub holds the telegraph cable. | |
Willie P. Mangum by James Reid Lambdin 1844 U.S. Senate Art Collection Washington, D.C. | Lambdin, James Reid |
- U.S. Senate Art Collection