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George Crowninshield, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800-17
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Portrait of a Man (Tom Molineaux?)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-1825
Owner: Private Collection

George Gibbs III

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1796
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Col. George Gibbs III

Col. George Gibbs III

John Vanderlyn
Painting
c. 1806-08
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Archibald Bruce

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
18th century
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine
Washington Family

Washington Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Bishop Richard Allen and Sarah Allen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: Private collection
George Washington and Family

George Washington and Family

Jeremiah Paul
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: James S. Copley Library (closed)

The Washington Family

E. Bell
Print
1800
Flora

Flora

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1796
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; owned jointly with the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, museum purchase through the American Women’s History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative
Peter Williams

Peter Williams

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-1815
Owner: New-York Historical Society
A Good Likeness of Sancho, a Negro

A Good Likeness of Sancho, a Negro

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1807
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton
Painting
c. 1800-10
Owner: U.S. Patent Office

William Thornton

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1804-71
Owner: U.S. Patent Office

James McPherson

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1801
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1803
Owner: The White House

Nicholas Faucon

William M. S. Doyle
Silhouette
1805-15
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection
James Mather

James Mather

William Bache
Silhouette
1804
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Sarah Bache Bloise

Thomas Russell

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1796
Owner: Unknown Owner
John Rodgers

John Rodgers

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Self Portrait with Spectacles

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1804
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

William Young

James Peale
Painting
1807
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hepzibah Clark Swan

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1806
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
George Washington

George Washington

Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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    • Silhouettes  2490
    • Miniatures  1520
    • Prints  694
    • Drawings  333
    • Sculpture  274
    • Exterior views  240
    • Decorative arts  37
    • Medals  26
    • Artists' materials  11
    • Maps  8
    • Sheet music  8
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