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
Chester A. Arthur
Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906
George Washington
William Russell Birch, 1755 - 1834
Thomas Hart Benton
Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle, 1820 - 1906
Thomas E. Kirby
William Merritt Chase, 1 Nov 1849 - 25 Oct 1916
John Lothrop Motley
Thomas Phillips, 1770 - 1845
Margaret Spear Smith
Gilbert Stuart, 3 Dec 1755 - 9 Jul 1828
James Monroe
John Vanderlyn, 15 Oct 1775 - 23 Sep 1852
Sequoyah
Henry Inman, 28 Oct 1801 - 17 Jan 1846
Thurlow Weed
Chester Harding, 1 Sep 1792 - 10 Apr 1866
Unidentified Man
Unidentified Artist
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alanson Fisher, 1807 - 1884
Jacob Jennings Brown
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840
Myron T. Herrick
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, 27 Nov 1878 - 29 Sep 1931
Charles Carroll Glover
John McLure Hamilton, 31 Jan 1853 - 1936
David Glasgow Farragut
William Swain, 27 Dec 1803 - Feb 1847
Patience Lovell Wright
Robert Edge Pine, 1730 - 18 Nov 1788
Francis Scott Key
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860
Elizabeth Depeyster Peale
James Peale, 1749 - 24 May 1831
George Benjamin Luks
William James Glackens, 13 Mar 1870 - 22 May 1938
Andrew Jackson
James Tooley, Jr., 1816 - 1844
John C. Calhoun
George Peter Alexander Healy, 15 Jul 1813 - 24 Jun 1894
George E. Haynes
Laura Wheeler Waring, 1887 - 1948
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
Anders Leonard Zorn, 18 Feb 1860 - 1920
David Wiley
Charles Peale Polk, 17 Mar 1767 - 6 May 1822
Valentine Mott
Unidentified Artist
William Jervis Hough and Family
J. Brayton Wilcox
William McKinley
Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947
John Brown
Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 13 Apr 1823 - 1 May 1906
Henry Knox
Charles Peale Polk, 17 Mar 1767 - 6 May 1822
Frank Billings Kellogg
Philip Alexius de László, 1869 - 1937
John Russwurm
Unidentified Artist
Amerigo Vespucci
Charles Willson Peale, 15 Apr 1741 - 22 Feb 1827
Unidentified Man
Unidentified Artist
Horatio Gates
James Peale, 1749 - 24 May 1831
Daniel Huntington
Henry Inman, 28 Oct 1801 - 17 Jan 1846
John Witherspoon
Rembrandt Peale, 22 Feb 1778 - 3 Oct 1860
John C. Calhoun
Charles Bird King, 26 Sep 1785 - 18 Mar 1862
Richard Delafield
Charles Courtney Curran, 1861 - 1942
Franklin Knight Lane
Ossip Perelma, 1876 - 23 May 1949
Zachary Taylor
James Reid Lambdin, 10 May 1807 - 31 Jan 1889
Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside
Christian Schussele, 16 Apr 1824 - 1879
John Stevens
Unidentified Artist
Charlotte Cushman
Unidentified Artist
Alexander von Humboldt
Emma Gaggiotti-Richards, 1825 - 1912
John Winthrop
Unidentified Artist
William Cullen Bryant
Daniel Huntington, 14 Oct 1816 - 18 Apr 1906
John Middleton Clayton
David Acheson Woodward, 1823 - 1909
Richard Alexander Penrose
Julian Russell Story, 1857 - 1919
Robert E. Lee
Edward Caledon Bruce, 1825 - 1901
James Fenimore Cooper
Charles Loring Elliott, 12 Oct 1812 - 25 Aug 1868
Edwin Forrest
Unidentified Artist
Edmund Charles Tarbell Self-Portrait
Edmund Charles Tarbell, 26 Apr 1862 - 1 Aug 1938
Arvid Frederick Nyholm Self-Portrait
Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1866 - 1927
Thomas Ash II
Thomas Sully, 19 Jun 1783 - 5 Nov 1872
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Nathaniel Jocelyn, 1796 - 1881
Pocahontas
Unidentified Artist
John Ericsson
Arvid Frederick Nyholm, 1866 - 1927
John Howard Payne
John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840
Louis McLane
Charles Bird King, 26 Sep 1785 - 18 Mar 1862
George Brinton McClellan
Julian Scott, 1846 - 1901