Public domain art in black

Artworks whose dominant colour is black, measured from the image itself rather than from a curator's tag. Every work here is free to download and reuse.

Works in Public domain art in black

Sir William Boothby

Unidentified (British)

Lawrence Reid Yates

Walter Robertson, Irish, born Dublin, Ireland ca. 1750-died Fatehpur, India 1801/02

General Georges Leman, Commander of the Fortified Town of Liege

Edmund C. Tarbell, born West Groton, MA 1862-died New Castle, NH 1938

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, born Waltham, MA 1874-died 1942

Woman with Cockatoo

Peter Oliver Foss, born Norway 1865-died Randolph, MA 1932

Mr. Lawrence of Boston

Edward Greene Malbone, born Newport, RI 1777-died Savannah, GA 1807

John Tower

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

David Livingston

Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830

Conrad Wunder

Unidentified

Portrait of a Lady

Unidentified

Col. Joaquin Goyena

Goyena family, active Puerto Rico 1810-1850s

Portrait of a Gentleman

Sarah Goodridge, born Templeton, MA 1788-died Boston, MA 1853

Still Life with Fruit and Flowers

Cornelius de Beet, born Amsterdam, Netherlands ca. 1779-died Baltimore, MD 1840

Love and Death

Da Loria Norman, born Leavenworth, KS 1872-died New York City 1935

Aymara Doctor

Unidentified (South American?)

Portrait of Mrs. Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson, born Lovell, ME 1824-died New York City 1906

Allee de l'Ete, Versailles

Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917

Weapons and Physiognomy of the Grizzly Bear

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Lord Ullin's Daughter

Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917

Elizabeth Oliphant

James Peale, born Chestertown, MD 1749-died Philadelphia, PA 1831

Natalie in Fur Cape

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Untitled (landscape with cows in stream near trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901

Fall in the Foothills

W. Herbert Dunton, born Augusta, ME 1878-died Taos, NM 1936

Portrait of a Gentleman

James Sanford Ellsworth, born Windsor, CT 1802-died Pittsburgh, PA 1874

Col. Nathaniel Darby

Unidentified

San Juan Nepomuceno

José Campeche y Jordán, born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1751-died San Juan, Puerto Rico 1809

The Nativity

Juan González, 17th century

The Canoe Builders

Ralph Albert Blakelock, born New York City 1847-died Elizabethtown, NY 1919

King Lear in the Storm

Henry Brintnell Bounetheau, born Charleston, SC 1797-died Charleston, SC 1877

Mrs. Nathaniel Parkinson

Unidentified

M. Du Wollant

Alice Pike Barney, born Cincinnati, OH 1857-died Los Angeles, CA 1931

Villa Falconieri

Charles Walter Stetson, born Tiverton, RI 1858-died Rome, Italy 1911

Benjamin Hurd, Jr.

William M. S. Doyle, born Boston, MA 1769-died Boston, MA 1828

The Stephens Children

Unidentified

The Mourning Brave

Edwin Willard Deming, born Ashland, OH 1860-died New York City 1942

Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen

Hugh Bridport, born London, England 1794-died Philadelphia, PA ca. 1868

Portrait of a Gentleman with Initials J. B.

Benjamin Trott, born Boston, MA ca. 1770-died Washington, DC 1843

English Baby Boy

Unidentified

Araucanian Woman

Unidentified (South American?)

Joven criolla

Unidentified (Puerto Rican)

Julius White

Anson Dickinson, born Milton, CT 1779-died Litchfied, CT 1852

Madame Tulp

Cornelius Johnson, English, born London, England 1593-died Netherlands 1661

Cardinal Mercier

Cecilia Beaux, born Philadelphia, PA 1855-died Gloucester, MA 1942

Stable at Cuenca

John Singer Sargent, born Florence, Italy 1856-died London, England 1925

Colonial Soldier

Unidentified

Small Landscape

J. Francis Murphy, born Oswego, NY 1853-died New York City 1921

Samoan Woman

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1813 Bulgaria-died Washington, DC 1899

Rev. William White, D.D.

William Birch, born Warwickshire, England 1755-died Philadelphia, PA 1834

Eye of a Gentleman

Unidentified (European)

Portrait of a Gentleman

Nathaniel Rogers, born Bridgehampton, NY 1788-died Bridgehampton, NY 1844

Portrait of a Young Man

Joseph Stella, born Muro Lucano, Italy 1877-died New York City 1946

Mrs. Roberts

Unidentified

Fisher Children

Charles W. Hawthorne, born Lodi, IL 1872-died Baltimore, MD 1930

Mr. Bennett, of Revere Street, Boston

Henry Williams, born Boston, MA 1787-died Boston, MA 1830

Aymara Girl

Unidentified (South American?)

Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Boucher

Unidentified (British)

Sheepyard, Moonlight

Horatio Walker, born Listowel, Ontario 1858-died Ile d'Orleans, Quebec 1938

Fruit Pieces

William Michael Harnett, born Clonakilty, Ireland 1848-died New York City 1892

Self-Portrait

Malvin Gray Johnson, born Greensboro, NC 1896-died New York City 1934

The Woodchopper

George Loring Brown, born Boston, MA 1814-died Malden, MA 1889