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The presidential portrait of Bill Clinton was the first of such portraits to be painted by an African American, Simmie Knox. [15] [16] Before that, a portrait was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution.
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic 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 famous Americans. Along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.
Most of early American art (from the late 18th century through the early 19th century) consists of history painting and especially portraits. As in Colonial America, many of the painters who specialized in portraits were essentially self-taught; notable among them are Joseph Badger, John Brewster Jr., and William Jennys.
Charles Bird King (1785–1862), portrait painter; James Frothingham (1786–1864), painter; John Lewis Krimmel (1786–1821), America's first genre painter; Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), painter; Sarah Goodridge (1788–1853), painter of miniatures; Matthew Harris Jouett (1788–1827), portrait artist; William Edward West (1788–1859 ...
Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man [b] 18 October 1840 Hippolyte Bayard: Paris, France [6] Direct Possitive Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process. [7] [8] [s 1] The Haystack: 1844 [c] William Henry Fox Talbot Lacock, England ...
Matika Wilbur's intimate portraits of Native people across America appear in her book "Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America."
Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was an American painter, military officer, scientist, and naturalist.. In 1775, inspired by the American Revolution, Peale moved from his native Maryland to Philadelphia, where he set up a painting studio and joined the Sons of Liberty.
The L.A.-based artist Adam Davis is touring his "Black Magic" show around the U.S. in his pursuit to make 20,000 tintype portraits of Black Americans.