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2. National Portrait Gallery (United States) - Wikipedia

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   The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is a historic art museum in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded in 1962 and opened in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. Along with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building .

3. Smithsonian American Art Museum - Wikipedia

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   The museum and the National Portrait Gallery reopened their combined building, renamed as the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, on July 1, 2006. [45] The Smithsonian American Art Museum's main building is shared with the National Portrait Gallery, as seen from G Street NW in 2011

4. First Lady Michelle Obama (painting) - Wikipedia

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   First Lady Michelle Obama, initially titled Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, is a portrait of former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, painted by the artist Amy Sherald. Unveiled in 2018, it hangs in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, D.C. The six-by-five-foot (1.8 by 1.5 m) oil-on-linen painting shows Obama ...

5. Earliest known photograph of a US first lady acquired by ...

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   The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady. The quarter-plate daguerreotype of former First Lady Dolley ...

6. National Portrait Gallery buys oldest photo of US first lady

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   Madeline Halpert - BBC News, New York. July 9, 2024 at 11:24 AM. The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery has purchased what is believed to be the earliest ever photo of a US first ...

7. National Portrait Gallery reopening to include unseen Paul ...

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   January 25, 2023 at 3:52 PM. The National Portrait Gallery will reopen later this year with an exhibition of previously unseen photographs by Sir Paul McCartney from his early days in The Beatles ...

8. President Barack Obama (painting) - Wikipedia

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   Painting. In October 2017, it was announced that Wiley had been chosen by Barack Obama to paint an official portrait of the former president to appear in Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery "America's Presidents" exhibition. [1] The painting depicts Obama sitting in a chair seemingly floating among foliage. [2]

9. Statue of George Washington (Houdon) - Wikipedia

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   During the design process, Houdon produced this plaster bust of Washington in 1786. He later revised it before making the final statue. (National Portrait Gallery) In 1784, the Virginia General Assembly commissioned a statue of George Washington "to be of the finest marble and the best workmanship," necessitating a European craftsman.