National Gallery of Art

This portrait of George Washington at Princeton, painted by Charles Peale Polk, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

The medallion of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, created by Wayne MacVeagh, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, painted by Thomas Sully, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of James Monroe, painted by John Vanderlyn, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of George Washington, painted by Rembrandt Peale, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of John C. Calhoun, painted by Rembrandt Peale, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of William Moultrie, painted by Charles Willson Peale, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of Benjamin Harrison, painted by Charles Willson Peale, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne, painted by Emanuel Leutze, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This portrait of John Marshall, painted by James Reid Lambdin, is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.