Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections - Hardcover

Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections presents little-known artistic treasures from important Washington area private collections. These portraits by major artists date from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, and they speak to the many reasons that paintings and sculpture continue to represent and capture human likenesses and personalities. Privately collected, commissioned, or inherited, they have seldom, if ever, been seen in a public setting.

Carolyn Kinder Carr is deputy director and chief curator of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Her previous works include Legacy: Spain and the United States in the Age of Independence, 1763-1848 (2007) and Hans Namuth: Portraits (1999). Ellen Miles is curator emerita of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery. Her previous works include Gilbert Stuart, with Carrie Rebora Barratt (2004) and Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994).