Presidential portraits: from Washington to Obama – in pictures
Portraits of former president Barack Obama (by Kehinde Wiley) and former first lady Michelle Obama (by Amy Sherald)Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesBarack Hussein Obama, by Kehinde Wiley 2018Photograph: AP/National Portrait GalleryGeorge Walker Bush by John Howard Sanden 2012Photograph: John Howard Sanden/White House Historical Associati
William Jefferson Clinton by Simmie Knox, 2002Photograph: Simmie Knox/White House Historical AssociatiGeorge Herbert Walker Bush by Herbert E Abrams, 1994Photograph: Herbert Abrams/White House Historical AssociatiRonald Wilson Reagan by Evewrett Raymond Kinstler, 1991Photograph: Everett Raymond Kinstler/White House Historical AssociatiJimmy Carter by Herbert E Abrams, 1982Photograph: Herbert Abrams/White House Historical AssociatiGerald Rudolph Ford by Everett Raymond Kinstler, 1977Photograph: The White House Historical AssociationRichard Milhous Nixon by Alexander Benjamin Clayton, 1981Photograph: Alexander Benjamin Clayton/White House Historical AssociatiJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy by Aaron Shikler, 1970Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoDwight David Eisenhower by Thomas Edgar Stephens, 1960Photograph: Thomas Edgar Stevens/White House Historical AssociatiHarry S Truman by Martha Greta Kempton, 1947Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1966Photograph: Elizabeth Shoumatoff/White House Historical AssociatiAbraham Lincoln by William F Cogswell, 1869Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoGeorge Washington by Charles Willson Peale, 1776Photograph: Fine Art/Corbis via Getty Images
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