National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search

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Search more than 100,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits, which includes images of American subjects or by American artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, miniatures, silhouettes, and daguerreotypes.

Access Locations:

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center;

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;

Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL);

All Branch Libraries;

Outside the Library

Subjects:

Art;

Prints;

Biography;

United States History

Notes:

The Catalog of American Portraits is a survey of American portraits in public and private collections across the United States and abroad. The CAP encompasses portraits of American subjects or by American artists, generally limited to one-of-a-kind likenesses such as paintings, sculpture, drawings, miniatures, and silhouettes. National Portrait Gallery collections are included in this portrait database.

Dates of Coverage:

1700-present

Format:

Web

Language:

English