954602 Dred Scott, c.1857 (oil on canvas) by American School, (19th century); Collection of the New-York Historical Society, USA; (add.info.: Dred Scott (1795 ??September 17, 1858), was a slave in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as "the Dred Scott Decision." ); 穢 New York Historical Society ; American, out of copyright.