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Most presidents have hung a portrait of [[George Washington]] – usually the [[Rembrandt Peale]] Porthole portrait or the [[Charles Willson Peale]] three-quarter-length portrait – over the mantel at the north end of the room. A portrait of [[Andrew Jackson]] by [[Thomas Sully]] hung in the offices of Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, [[George H. W. Bush]] and Bill Clinton. A portrait of Abraham Lincoln by George Henry Story hung in George W. Bush's office, continued in Barack Obama's and currently hangs in Joe Biden's. Three landscapes and cityscapes – ''[[City of Washington from Beyond the Navy Yard]]'' by [[George Cooke (painter)|George Cooke]], ''Eastport and Passamaquoddy Bay'' by Victor de Grailly, and ''The President's House'', a copy after [[William Henry Bartlett]] – have adorned the walls in multiple administrations. ''Passing the Outpost'' (1881) by [[Alfred Wordsworth Thompson]], a Revolutionary War genre scene of a carriage stopped at a British [[Security checkpoint|checkpoint]], hung in Gerald Ford's office, and in Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's.<ref>John Rousmaniere, ''The Union League Club 1863-2013'' (New York: Union League Club, 2013), pp. 198-200.</ref> ''[[The Avenue in the Rain]]'' by [[Childe Hassam]] and ''[[Working on the Statue of Liberty]]'' by [[Norman Rockwell]] flanked the ''Resolute'' desk in Bill Clinton's office and did the same in Barack Obama's. ''Avenue in the Rain'' currently hangs beside the ''Resolute'' desk in Joe Biden's office.