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George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1800
Owner: Arkansas Arts Center

John R. Murray

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Thomas Hart Benton

Henry Williams
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Sidney Lanier

Ephraim Keyser
Sculpture
c. 1800
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art

Nehemiah William Andrews

Patriarchi
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Francis Rotch

John Miers
Silhouette
c. 1795
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1800
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Lawrence Seibel
George Washington

George Washington

Enoch G. Gridley
Print
c. 1800
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1790-1809
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Enos Reeves

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Joel Barlow

Joel Barlow

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
1804
Owner: The White House
David Wiley

David Wiley

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1801
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Reverend William White

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Elizabeth Selden McClurg Wickham

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: Private Collection

Mrs. Morgan

James Sharples
Painting
1794-1809
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1800-1802
Owner: Worcester Art Museum

Ralph Stead Izard

George Engleheart
Painting
c. 1802
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Alexander Hamilton (Jay Type)

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1804
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Codwise

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1795-1805
Owner: Mattatuck Museum of the Mattatuck Historical Society
James Madison

James Madison

John Vanderlyn
Painting
c. 1795-1805
Owner: Princeton University

Shubel Smith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1796
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Frederick William Von Geyer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: Historic Deerfield
John Jay

John Jay

Peter Maverick
Print
c. 1801
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Steward and Daughter, Sarah Moseley Steward

Joseph Steward and Daughter, Sarah Moseley Steward

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1798
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

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