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 photograph of a portrait was originally identified on the verso as Ralph Waldo Emerson by artist Thomas Sully. The photograph was furnished to Mr. Truman from the National Gallery of Art, "custodian for a future National Portrait Gallery."  Now the portrait is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is identified simply as "Portrait of a Man" by an unnamed American artist.

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.