Unit 2: Those Inventive Americans!

List of Portrait Reproductions

1. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
   Author, statesman, scientist, diplomat
   By Joseph Siffred Duplessis (1725–1802)
   Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 59.6 cm (28 2 x 23 7/16 in.), 1785
   Gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
   (NPG.87.43)
   
   
2. Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872)
   Artist, inventor
   Self-portrait
   Oil on millboard, 27 x 22.5 cm (10 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.), 1812
   (NPG.80.208)
   
   
3. Men of Progress
   By Christian Schussele (1824–1879)
   Oil on canvas, 130.4 x 194.9 cm (51 3/8 x 76 3/4 in.), 1862
   Transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of Andrew W. Mellon, 1942
   (NPG.65.60)
   
   
4. George Washington Carver (1864–1943)
   Scientist
   By Betsy Graves Reyneau (1888–1964)
   Oil on canvas, 112.4 x 88.9 cm (44 1/4 x 35 in.), 1942
   Transfer from the National Museum of American Art; gift of the George Washington Carver Memorial Committee to the Smithsonian Institution, 1944
   (NPG.65.77)