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

Henry Augustus Coit

John Wood Dodge, born New York City 1807-died Pomona, TN 1893

Retrato de caballero

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

St. Nicholas

Robert Walter Weir, born New York City 1803-died New York City 1889

Portrait of a Young Woman

Mary Louisa Adams Clement, born Newbury, MA 1882-died Warrenton, VA 1950

Brown Kimono (Portrait of Kathryn Beta la Forque)

Irving R. Wiles, born Utica, NY 1861-died Peconic, NY 1948

Portrait of a Woman

Unidentified (British)

Charles William McGinnes

Carl Weinedel, born Germany 1795-died New York City 1845

Mary Ellen Stonestreet Hoffar

James Alexander Simpson, born Georgetown, DC 1805-died Baltimore, MD 1880

Portrait of General Giles

Joseph Wright, born Bordentown, NJ 1756-died Philadelphia, PA 1793

River Landscape at Sunset

David Johnson, born New York City 1827-died Walden, NY 1908

The Gossip

William Penhallow Henderson, born Medford, MA 1877-died Tesuque, NM 1943

Mary Comstock Alfay (?)

Unidentified

Driving Home the Cows

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

Henry Gourdin

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

Landscape with Stream and Mountains

Thomas Doughty, born Philadelphia, PA 1791-died New York City 1856

View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum

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

Buffalo Chase, a Surround by the Hidatsa

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

Dama desconocida con turbante rosa (Lady with Pink Turban)

Francisco Estanislao Goyena y O'Daly, born 1805-died ?

Mrs. John Cockey, III

Philip Tilyard, born Baltimore, MD 1785-died Baltimore, MD 1830

Portrait of a Gentleman

George W. Newcombe, born England 1799-died New York City 1845

Modern Greek

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

Visit of Nicodemus to Christ

John La Farge, born New York City 1835-died Providence, RI 1910

Oriental Princess after the Bath

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

George Washington

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

Philip Key

Unidentified Artist

Margaret Fuller

Thomas Hicks, 18 Oct 1823 - 8 Oct 1890

Benjamin Harrison, Jr.

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Benjamin Harrison

William Thomas Mathews, 7 May 1821 - 11 Jan 1905

William Lloyd Garrison

Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1796 - 1881

Louis Albert Gudebrod

Edward Bradstreet, 11 Nov 1878 - 14 Jan 1921

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Henry Benbridge, 20 Oct 1743 - 25 Jan 1812

John Armstrong

John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

West Family in the Studio Garden

Benjamin West, 10 Oct 1738 - 11 Mar 1820

Abraham Lincoln

George Peter Alexander Healy, 15 Jul 1813 - 24 Jun 1894

John Randolph

John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

Betsey Colt Foot

Ezra Ames, 5 May 1768 - 23 Feb 1836

Richard Henry Lee

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Anna L. R. S. Morton

Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, 20 Jun 1833 - 8 Sep 1922

Henry Clay and Helen Frick

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938

Clara Cook Kellogg

Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937

Matthew Pratt Self-Portrait

Matthew Pratt, 23 Sep 1734 - 9 Jan 1805

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, c. 1788 - 1838

Thomas Alva Edison

Abraham Archibald Anderson, 1847 - 1940

Noah Webster

James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867

Richard Bache

John Hoppner, 1758 - 1810

Adolph Ochs

Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937

John Merven Carrere

William De Leftwich Dodge, 9 Mar 1867 - 25 Mar 1935

Rubens Peale

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

John Howard Raymond

Unidentified Artist

Lydia Henchman Hancock

John Singleton Copley, 3 Jul 1738 - 9 Sep 1815

Henry Lee

James Herring, 12 Jan 1794 - 8 Oct 1867

Daniel Boone

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Solomon White Roberts

Manuel Joachim de Franca, 1808 - 1865

William T. Sherman

George Peter Alexander Healy, 15 Jul 1813 - 24 Jun 1894

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thomas Buchanan Read, 12 Mar 1822 - 11 May 1872

Iphigenia Wise Ochs

Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937

Sarah Miriam Peale Self-Portrait

Sarah Miriam Peale, 19 May 1800 - 4 Feb 1885

William Moultrie

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Abbott Handerson Thayer Self-Portrait

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 12 Aug 1849 - 29 May 1921

Woodrow Wilson

Harriet Anderson Stubbs Murphy, 16 Mar 1852 - 1935