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David Jones Fluker

John James Audubon
Painting
c. 1820
Rufus King

Rufus King

William Satchwell Leney
Print
1816
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Richard Varick

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-10
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

George Raleigh Dearborn

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Drawing
c. 1806
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Unidentified Man

Painting
1815-25
Owner: Montgomery County Historical Society

Rufus King

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1818?
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Lydia Otis Smith

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1808-10
Owner: Unknown Owner

John Taylor Gilman

J. B. A. Binon
Sculpture
c. 1820
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

Elizabeth Prescott Daggett

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-10
Owner: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Reuben Haines

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1810-31
Owner: Wyck

Caleb Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1816

John Ford

John Miers
Silhouette
c. 1805-15
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Priscilla Webb Ropes

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-15
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Possibly Underwood

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1820
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
The Death of Captain James Lawrence on Board the Chesapeake, June 1st 1813

The Death of Captain James Lawrence on Board the Chesapeake, June 1st 1813

Ralph Rawdon
Print
1814
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mrs. Washington Bowie and her Daughter Sarah

Dominic W. Boudet
Painting
c. 1812-15
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Captain David Luffkin

William Jennys
Painting
c. 1805
Owner: Peter Tillou Collection

Charity Cornell Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Lilla Pratt Rosamond

J. J. Miller

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mrs. Emory I. Van Bibber

Felix Thomas Sharples
Painting
c. 1815-25

Unidentified Man

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
c. 1814
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Lemuel Haynes

Eugene Henry Bischoff
Painting
c. 1800-10
Owner: Bennington Museum

Grace Stevens Bradley

William Jennys
Silhouette
c. 1807
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

Portrait of Charles Avery, Esq.

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
1810-61

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