Presidents | National Portrait Gallery

Old photograph of old man looking at the camera

Welcome to the Portrait Gallery, John Quincy Adams

Thu Oct 12

Image of the Lansdowne portrait being photographed in a studio

Conservation of the Lansdowne Portrait

Thu Sep 28

A group of women standing in a semi-circle and smiling at the camera

Passion for the Presidents

Tue Jun 27

Black and white image of a man sitting in a chair with his back to the camera and his face looking left

Forever Young: The Existential Style of Jack Kennedy

Tue May 23

Photograph of a man throwing an apple against a blue sky background

Photographing a Future President

Tue Feb 21

Children standing with large-headed president mascots wearing baseball jerseys

Party with the Presidents

Thu Feb 16

One of the things that makes the modern presidency a particularly difficult—perhaps even impossible—job is that Americans expect their presidents to be both sublimely confident and powerful statesmen but also “just plain folks,” no different, really, than you and I. Politicians, of course, know the value of the homey touch and of posing as a man of the people in order to create an appealing persona. These days a great deal of thought, and money, goes into creating an appealing image of a candidate. In our m

The Importance of Presidential Trivia

Wed Jan 18

People in nineteenth century attire cutting into a large wheel of cheese

The Big Cheese: Presidential Gifts of Mammoth Proportions

Tue Jan 17

Photograph portrait of Donald Trump in a suit and tossing an apple in the air. The background is blue sky with clouds.

Now on View: Portrait of President-Elect Donald J. Trump

Fri Jan 13

George Washington by Charles Willson Peale

Washington at Yorktown

Thu Mar 10

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