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Daniel Webster

by James Henry Wright

oil on canvas
Height: 85.13 inches (216.2 cm) Width: 65.25 inches (165.7 cm)

U.S. Senate Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Wright, James Henrynotes
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
Oil on canvas
Height: 52.5 inches (133.4 cm) Width: 36.13 inches (91.8 cm)

U.S. Senate Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Gignoux, Regis-Francoisnotes
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
Height: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Width: 23.5 inches (59.7 cm)

U.S. Senate Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Chalfant, Jefferson Davidnotes
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
oil on canvas
Height: 13.63 inches (34.6 cm) Width: 23.63 inches (60 cm)

U.S. Senate Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Brumidi, Constantinonotes
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
oil on canvas
Height: 29.88 inches (75.9 cm) Width: 24.25 inches (61.6 cm)

U.S. Senate Art Collection

Washington, D.C.

Lambdin, James Reid 
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