The National Portrait Gallery is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of Ame
Andrew Mellon, whose art collection was one of the foundations of the National Portrait Gallery collection
The unfinished Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, one of two portraits at the center of the Stuart controversy
The "cracked-plate" portrait of Abraham Lincoln, acquired by the NPG as part of the Alexander Gardner Collection
Lansdowne Portrait
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The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic life-size portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796. It depicts the 64-year-old president of the United States during his final year in office
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…created by African American photographer Augustus Washington. In the fall of 2000, Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery, offered to sell Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait of George Washington to the National Portrait Gallery. The painting was commissioned in April 1796 by Senator William Bingham of Pennsylvania—one of…
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Detail of the book bindings in the White House's copy of the Lansdowne portrait. UNITED STATES is spelled as UNITED SATES to distinguish the copy.
Detail of the rainbow in the Lansdowne portrait. Note that the colors of the rainbow are reversed, similar to the secondary arc of a double rainbow but with no visible primary rainbow.
Munro-Lenox Portrait (c.1800) by Gilbert Stuart, private collection