National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Search
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.
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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
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