Unit 3: Abolition and the Civil War

List of Portrait Reproductions

Henry Clay (1777–1852)
Statesman
By John Neagle (1796–1865)
Oil on canvas, 70 x 54.5 cm (27 9/16 x 21 7/16 in.), 1842
(NPG.93.476)
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850)
Statesman
By George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894)
Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 73.7 cm (36 x 29 in.), circa 1845
(NPG.90.52)
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
Abolitionist
By Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796–1881)
Oil on wood panel, 76 x 63.2 cm (29 15/16 x 24 7/8 in.), 1833
Bequest of Garrison Norton
(NPG.96.102)
Frederick Douglass (1817–1895)
Abolitionist, statesman
Unidentified artist
Oil on canvas, 69.9 x 57.1 cm (27 2 x 22 2 in.), circa 1844
(NPG.74.45)
William T. Sherman (1820–1891)
Union general
By George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894)
Oil on canvas, 158.8 x 97.2 cm (62 2 x 38 1/4 in.), 1866
Transfer from the National Museum of American Art; gift of P. Tecumseh Sherman, 1935
(NPG.65.40)
Philip H. Sheridan (1831–1888)
Union general
By Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872)
Oil on canvas, 137.2 x 98.7 cm (54 x 38 7/8 in.), 1871
Transfer from the National Museum of American History; gift of Ulysses S. Grant III, 1939
(NPG.68.51)