John Wesley Jarvis, 1780 - 14 Jan 1840

John Howard Payne

1812. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. CC0. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.