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George Crowninshield, Jr.

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

George Crowninshield, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1815
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
James Biddle

James Biddle

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Archibald Bruce

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
18th century
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine
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
A Good Likeness of Sancho, a Negro

A Good Likeness of Sancho, a Negro

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1807
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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

William Bentley

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800-19
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Thomas Tickell Hewson

Charles Willson Peale
Silhouette
c. 1800
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine

Thomas Paschall

Joseph Sansom
Silhouette
c. 1790
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Andrew Oliver

Andrew Oliver

Helen Laughon
Silhouette
1980
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the artists

Nathan Smith

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
indeterminable
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society
Willis Hall

Willis Hall

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy

William James Hubard
Silhouette
c. 1820
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Margaret Garber Blue

Squire Jonathan Morgan

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1830
Owner: Portland Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800-50
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Richard Vaux and Ovid Johnson

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Bernard Xavier Marigny de Mandeville

Bernard Xavier Marigny de Mandeville

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

Caleb P. Smith

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1825-40
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society
John C. Calhoun

John C. Calhoun

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
James Warrell

James Warrell

William Bache
Silhouette
c. 1803-04
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Sarah Bache Bloise

William Shippen, Jr.

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

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