National Portrait Gallery Buys Dolley Madison Photo for $456,000 The portrait of the first lady, which was likely taken in 1846, will be part of an exhibition for the nation’s semiquincentennial.

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., has acquired an image of Dolley Madison, believed to be the first photograph of a U.S. first lady. The circa 1846 daguerreotype was purchased for ...

The artist behind Michelle Obama's popular 2018 portrait is pulling her show from the National Portrait Gallery over what she alleged were censorship threats, per multiple outlets. Why it matters: ...