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Coin design

Coin design

James Barton Longacre
Drawing
19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Gibbs III

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1796
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Archibald Bruce

Archibald Bruce

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Print
1796
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
The Washington Family

The Washington Family

Edward Savage
Print
1798
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Bishop Richard Allen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: Howard University Gallery of Art
Washington Family

Washington Family

Edward Savage
Painting
1789-90
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Bishop Richard Allen and Sarah Allen

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

Washington Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-mid 19th century
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Lafayette at Yorktown

Jean Baptiste Le Paon
Painting
c. 1783-85
Owner: Lafayette College

Washington Family

Edward Savage
Painting
1789-96
Owner: National Gallery of Art
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

Jean-Baptiste Belley, député de Saint-Domingue

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
Painting
1797
Owner: Musée National du Château de Versailles
General Washington

General Washington

Unidentified Artist
Print
after 1780
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the McNeil Americana Collection

Mary Queen of Scotts Under Confinement

James Ward
Print
1793
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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
George Washington

George Washington

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1790-93
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Michel Sokolnicki
Print
1798-99
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Tickell Hewson

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

Thomas Townsend

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795-1815
Owner: Preservation Society of Newport County
Francis Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson
Painting
c. 1785-91
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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    • Miniatures  1217
    • Prints  385
    • Drawings  283
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    • Sculpture  171
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