Early American Painting | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artworks/early-american-painting
Early American art includes works made by settlers in what we now know as the United States. Before the American Revolution, artists documented life in the colonies of New Spain and New England. And in the early decades of the United States, many artists represented the new nation through portraits of its early leaders.
artists like Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh frequently used themselves as models
