Historical
Step back in time with our historical collection, featuring moments that shaped civilizations from ancient times to the modern era.
Featured Artists
All Historical Artworks
2nd Annual Carnival Ball Benefit for the DuSable Museum of African American History
Kerry Coppin
A Bit of War History: The Contraband
Thomas Waterman Wood
A Bit of War History: The Recruit
Thomas Waterman Wood
A Bit of War History: The Veteran
Thomas Waterman Wood
A North American Indian (Study for historiated A in "Les chefs-d'oeuvre d'art à l'Exposition universelle 1878")
Rodolphe Bresdin
A Peasant Family
Antoine Le Nain
A Woman with a Dog
Giacomo Ceruti
Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Gardner (photograph)
Abraham Lincoln (Wartime Portrait)
Alexander Gardner (photograph)
Alexander Hamilton
John Trumbull
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Léon Bonnat
Andrew Jackson
Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Andrew Jackson (Presidential Portrait)
Asher B. Durand
Andrew Johnson
Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Barack Obama
White House Historical Association
Battle of Brandywine
Period artist
Battle of Bunker Hill
Various artists
Battle of Long Island
Period artist
Battle of Monmouth
Period artist
Battle of Saratoga
Period artist
Battle of Trenton
Period artist
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Duplessis
Benjamin Harrison
Eastman Johnson
Bill Clinton
Nelson Shanks
Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory
Unknown
Cardinal Dubois
Pierre-Imbert Drevet (French, 1697–1739)
Century Vase
Karl L. H. Müller
Christ Asleep during the Tempest
Eugène Delacroix
Civil War
Edouard Manet
Civil War spring lancet in book-form box
Unknown
Covered Cup with Grape Festoon
Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, c. 1510-c. 1550)
Death of General Warren at Bunker Hill
Period artist
Declaration of Independence
John Trumbull
Declaration of Independence (High Resolution)
John Trumbull
Donald Trump
White House Historical Association
Duryea Zouaves, Fort Schuyler Adjuant Mess
Stacy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
J. Anthony Wills
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Presidential Portrait)
Thomas Edgar Stephens
Enclosed Valley
Hercules Seghers (Dutch, 1589/90–c. 1638)
Eruption of Mount Aetna in 1669
Thomas Sutherland (British, 1785–1838)
Fear
Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916)
Figure of a Monkey on a Dog
Villeroy Factory
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank O. Salisbury
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Wartime Portrait)
Elizabeth Shoumatoff (unfinished)
Front Cover for a Gospel Book of French Cardinal Jean La Balou (1421-1491)
Unknown
George W. Bush
John Howard Sanden
George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Gilbert Stuart school
George Washington (Full Length)
Gilbert Stuart
Grover Cleveland
Eastman Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Greta Kempton
Harry S. Truman (Official Portrait)
Martha Greta Kempton
Hayne Hudjihini, Eagle of Delight
Henry Inman
Herbert Hoover
Elmer Wesley Greene
House of Cards
Pierre Filloeuil (French, 1696–after 1734)
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin
Inventor of Greek Figures, Plate 10
Benigno Bossi (Italian, 1727–1792)
James A. Garfield
Calvin Curtis
James Buchanan
George Peter Alexander Healy
James Madison
John Vanderlyn
James Madison (Official Portrait)
Gilbert Stuart
James Monroe
Samuel F. B. Morse
Joe Biden
White House Historical Association
John Adams
Gilbert Stuart
John F. Kennedy
White House Historical Association
John F. Kennedy (Official Portrait)
White House Historical Association
John Hancock
John Singleton Copley
Landscape with Two Pines
Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480–1538)
Landscape with the Town on a River and the Cottage between Trees
Hanns Lautensack (German, 1524–1566)
Lot, Chief of the Spokanes
Olin Levi Warner
Marquis de Lafayette
Joseph-Désiré Court
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Moses, Chief of the Okinokans
Olin Levi Warner
N-Che-Askwe, Chief of the Coeur d'Alenes
Olin Levi Warner
No. 6: Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells
Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695–1772)
Oh Heigh Oh or A View of the Back Settlements
Matthew Darly (British, active 1741–1780)
Paul Revere
John Singleton Copley
Pendant with figure
Unknown
Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co
Henry Inman
Plantae Selectae: No. 37 - Yucca
Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708–1770)
Plantae Selectae: No. 5 - Anona
Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708–1770)
Plantae et Papiliones rariores: Martynia
Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708–1770)
Poor Crane, Chief of the Cayuses
Olin Levi Warner
Portrait figure
Unknown
Portrait of the Artist
John Vanderlyn
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, Plate 10
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
Processional Cross
Northern Highlands artist
River Landscape with Five Bare Spruce Trees in the Foreground
Augustin Hirschvogel (German, 1503–1553)
Ronald Reagan
White House Historical Association
Ronald Reagan (Official Portrait)
Michael Evans (photograph)
Rutherford B. Hayes
Daniel Huntington
Saint Bernardino of Siena
Fulvio Signorini
Saint Catherine of Siena
Fulvio Signorini
Seltice, Chief of the Coeur d'Alenes
Olin Levi Warner
Sergeant John Lincoln Clem, The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga
Morse & Peaslee, Gallery of the Cumberland
Siege of Yorktown
Period artist
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Period artist
Stirrup-spout bottle with feline and snake
Cupisnique artist(s)
Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn
William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764)
Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga
Period artist
Surrender of General Burgoyne
John Trumbull
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown
John Trumbull
Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ
Unknown
The Battle of Lexington
William Wollen
The Battle of Princeton
William Mercer
The Birth of the Virgin
Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)
The Blue Passion-flower
Robert John Thornton (British, 1768–1837)
The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed: Umbel-Flowering Bulb-Bearing Orange-Lily
Thomas Curtis (British, 1846–1920)
The Botanical Magazine or Flower Garden Displayed: White Cape - Coast Lily
Sydenham Edwards (British, 1768–1819)
The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton
John Trumbull
The Clothed Maja
Francisco Goya
The Dance
Carl Wilhelm I Kolbe (German, 1757–1835)
The Dead Christ with Angels
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill
John Trumbull
The Departure of Jacob
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
The Dragon Arum, Black Calla or Solomon's Lily
Robert John Thornton (British, 1768–1837)
The Empty Quiver
Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
The Family of Charles IV
Francisco Goya
The Laundresses
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
The Marriage Settlement, Plate 1
Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (French, 1698–1760)
The Natchez
Eugène Delacroix
The New Testament, The Book of Common Prayer
Robert Barker
The Nude Maja
Francisco Goya
The Parasol
Francisco Goya
The Passage of the Delaware
Thomas Sully
The Spirit of '76
Archibald Willard
The Swing
Nicolas Delaunay (French, 1739–1792)
The Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature: The Pontic Rhododendron
Robert John Thornton (British, 1768–1837)
The Three Graces
Jean François Janinet (French, 1752–1814)
The Tomb of Nero
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
The Woman Taking Coffee
Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793)
Theodore Roosevelt
John Singer Sargent
Thomas Jefferson
Mather Brown
Thomas Jefferson (Full Length)
Rembrandt Peale
Thomas Jefferson (State Portrait)
Thomas Sully
Twelve Months of Fruit: August
Henry Fletcher (British, active 1715–38)
Twelve Months of Fruit: February
Henry Fletcher (British, active 1715–38)
Ulysses S. Grant
Henry Ulke
Ulysses S. Grant (Presidential Portrait)
Henry Ulke
Views: The Canal Lock at Dolo
Antonio Canaletto (Italian, 1697–1768)
Vista y Prospettiva del Palacio del Rey de Portugal en Lisbona
George Balthazar Probst (German, 1732–1801)
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Emanuel Leutze
Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth
Emanuel Leutze
Washington Resigning His Commission
John Trumbull
Washington and Lafayette at Valley Forge
John Ward Dunsmore
Washington at Verplanck's Point
John Trumbull
Wheel-Lock from a Hunting Rifle
Unknown
William Henry Harrison
Albert Gallatin Hoit
William McKinley
Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy
Woodrow Wilson
Graham Cootes
![[Civil War View]](https://pub-1536f603c39e458ca44c16dd41c730e6.r2.dev/artworks/american-history/thomas_c_roche__civil_war_view__35.jpg)
[Civil War View]
Thomas C. Roche
![[Five Union Civil War Soldiers in Studio]](https://pub-1536f603c39e458ca44c16dd41c730e6.r2.dev/artworks/american-history/unknown__five_union_civil_war_soldiers_in_studio__36.jpg)
[Five Union Civil War Soldiers in Studio]
Unknown
![[Six Union Civil War Soldiers in Studio]](https://pub-1536f603c39e458ca44c16dd41c730e6.r2.dev/artworks/american-history/unknown__six_union_civil_war_soldiers_in_studio__37.jpg)
[Six Union Civil War Soldiers in Studio]
Unknown
![[Union Civil War General, Standing in Studio with Elaborate Painted Backdrop]](https://pub-1536f603c39e458ca44c16dd41c730e6.r2.dev/artworks/american-history/unknown__union_civil_war_general_standing_in_studio_with_elaborate_p_38.jpg)
[Union Civil War General, Standing in Studio with Elaborate Painted Backdrop]
Unknown
![[Union Civil War Soldier, in Studio, Standing by Table]](https://pub-1536f603c39e458ca44c16dd41c730e6.r2.dev/artworks/american-history/unknown__union_civil_war_soldier_in_studio_standing_by_table__39.jpg)
[Union Civil War Soldier, in Studio, Standing by Table]
Unknown