Started in 1965 by architect Edward Vason Jones, the Gallery was the first project in the renovation of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms. The design for the room incorporates at each end Palladian windows inspired by Philadelphia houses of Thomas Jefferson's time, notably Mount Pleasant and Cliveden.
This room serves as a gallery for portraits, landscape paintings, and American Queen Anne and Chippendale furniture with emphasis on blockfront furniture by John Townsend and John Goddard of Newport, Rhode Island.
A Baktiari rug, c. 1910, and a rug from northwest Persia, c. 1900, are two of the floor coverings. The cut-glass chandelier is a fine English example of the rococo style, c. 1770. 
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Chest of Drawers
The superior skill of Newport craftsmen, the use of extraordinary quality mahogany, and the originality of design and attention to detail are epitomized in this brilliantly executed chest of drawers.
Desk and Bookcase
This elaborate oxbow desk and bookcase belonged to Robert Hooper, a Marblehead, Massachusetts, a merchant who achieved enormous success through trade with the West Indies.
Mrs. John Montresor
For her portrait, Mrs. Montresor affected a costume that was in the latest style, the female riding habit adapted from the military uniform.
View on the Kiskeminitas
View on the Kiskeminitas represents the achievement of the English-born Shaw at his peak. The graceful configuration of trees is reminiscent of Gainsborough and the park-like expanse of land may be indebted to the topographic gouaches and watercolors of Paul Sandby.
Barter for a Bride
Barter for a Bride, surely one of Stanley's finest surviving works, was probably painted between 1854 and 1860. It represents a courtship ritual among the Blackfeet.
Chest of Drawers
Made of bold stripe-figured mahogany four inches thick, this chest has been widely acclaimed as a tour de force of the bombe form.
