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

Harrison Gray Otis

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Benjamin Lay

William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791

Joseph Henry

Daniel Huntington, 14 Oct 1816 - 18 Apr 1906

Catahecassa (Black Hoof)

Henry Inman, 28 Oct 1801 - 17 Jan 1846

Col. George Gibbs III

John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852

John Caldwell Calhoun

William James Hubard, 1807 - 1862

James Kent

Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860

Henry Laurens

John Singleton Copley, 3 Jul 1738 - 9 Sep 1815

James Wilkinson

Unidentified Artist

Mary Cassatt

Edgar Degas, 19 Jul 1834 - 27 Sep 1917

Samuel F. B. Morse Self-Portrait

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 27 Apr 1791 - 2 Apr 1872

Rutherford B. Hayes

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews, 11 Jun 1835 - 19 Mar 1915

Alla Nazimova

Edward Emerson Simmons, 1852 - 1931

James Madison

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry Salem Hubbell, 25 Dec 1870 - 9 Jan 1949

William McKinley

William Thomas Mathews, 7 May 1821 - 11 Jan 1905

Belva Ann Lockwood

Nellie Mathes Horne, 1870 - 27 May 1950

Spencer Fullerton Baird

Henry Ulke, 29 Jan 1821 - 17 Feb 1910

Henry James

Ellen Gertrude Emmet Rand, 4 Mar 1875 - 18 Dec 1941

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman

Ellen Day Hale, 11 Feb 1855 - 10 Feb 1940

Zachary Taylor

John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852

Pauline Morton Sabin

Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937

Horace L. Traubel

Arthur Clifton Goodwin, c. 1864 - 1929

Carl Schurz

Daniel Huntington, 14 Oct 1816 - 18 Apr 1906

Woodrow Wilson

Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938

Anson Phelps Stokes

Julius Rolshoven, 1858 - 1930

Edwin McMasters Stanton

Henry Ulke, 29 Jan 1821 - 17 Feb 1910

Henry Clay

Unidentified Artist

Susan Brownell Anthony

Carl Gutherz, 28 Jan 1844 - 7 Feb 1907

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke, 1856 - 1942

Admiral George Dewey

Théobald Chartran, 20 Jul 1849 - 18 Jul 1907

John Ewing

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

John Jay

Gilbert Stuart, 3 Dec 1755 - 9 Jul 1828

Ulysses S. Grant

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906

Zachary Taylor

William Garl Browne Jr., 10 Oct 1822 - 28 Jul 1894

William Howard Taft

Robert Lee MacCameron, 1866 - 1912

John Quinn

John Butler Yeats, 16 Mar 1839 - 3 Feb 1922

Andrew Carnegie

Unidentified Artist

David Rittenhouse

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

John Jordan Crittenden

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

Benjamin Tappan

Washington Blanchard, 1808 - ?

Anne Catharine Hoof Green

Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs

Unidentified Artist

James C. McGuire

Charles Loring Elliott, 12 Oct 1812 - 25 Aug 1868

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Walter Ingalls, 1805 - 1874

William Lloyd Garrison

Unidentified Artist

John Marshall

James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889

Bushrod Washington

Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866

William Howard Taft

William Valentine Schevill, 1864 - 1951

Luman Reed

Asher Brown Durand, 21 Aug 1796 - 17 Sep 1886

H. H. Richardson

Hubert Von Herkomer, 26 May 1849 - 31 Mar 1914

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist

Henry George

George de Forest Brush, 28 Sep 1855 - 24 Apr 1941

Samuel Griffin

Cosmo John Alexander, 1724 - 1772

James Knox Polk

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

James Garfield

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906

Robert Milligan McLane

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

Julius Fleischmann

Frederick William Wright, 1867 - 1946

Bret Harte

John Pettie, 17 Mar 1839 - 21 Feb 1893

Salmon P. Chase

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, 1830 - 1900