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John Witherspoon

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1787
Owner: Princeton University

Joseph Barrell, Jr.

Nathaniel Hancock
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maria Cosway with Her Daughter Louisa

Richard Cosway
Drawing
c. 1794
Owner: National Gallery of Art
John Howard

John Howard

Mather Brown
Painting
c. 1789
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

James Madison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Private collection

Portrait of Mrs. Jedidiah Morse and Her Son, Sidney Edwards Morse

Edward Savage
Painting
c. 1794

Portrait Bust of George Washington

Giuseppe Ceracchi
Sculpture
c. 1792
Owner: Private Collection

Luke White

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1787
Owner: National Gallery of Art

George Washington

William Joseph Williams
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: Private Collection

William Stephens Smith

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Timothy Pitkin

Reuben Moulthrop
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Sarah Mills Olcott

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Dartmouth College

Archibald Bulloch, Governor of Georgia

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Bradford Hubbard

Reuben Moulthrop
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: New Haven Museum

Ann Spotswood Payne

Payne Limner
Painting
c. 1791
Owner: James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

Mrs. Quakenbush

Winthrop Chandler
Painting
1780-90
Owner: de Young Museum
Elizabeth Maynard Denny

Elizabeth Maynard Denny

James Peale
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Unidentified Man

Unidentified Man

Walter Robertson
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: UNLOCATED
Joseph Du Bocage

Joseph Du Bocage

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: Private collection

Adelaide Johnson ?

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1792
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Cornelia Tappan Clinton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Joseph Tilden

Ralph Earl
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: Boscobel Restoration, Inc.
Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple

Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple

Samuel King
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Bowdoin College
Sir Admiral John Acworth Ommanney

Sir Admiral John Acworth Ommanney

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Private collection

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