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William Maxwell

Cephas Thompson
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Mary Hopkins Cabell Breckinridge

Mary Hopkins Cabell Breckinridge

Matthew Harris Jouett
Painting
c. 1817-27
Owner: Mrs. E. Charles Woods
Philip Turpin

Philip Turpin

Thomas Sully
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Lucretia Williams Starr

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

Stephen Decatur

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Private Collection
Mary L. Blanchard Gatewood

Mary L. Blanchard Gatewood

Matthew Harris Jouett
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: J. B. Speed Art Museum

Keziah Phelps

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1810-20
Isaac Shelby

Isaac Shelby

Matthew Harris Jouett
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Kentucky Historical Society
Elizabeth Hooten Eldridge

Elizabeth Hooten Eldridge

Titian Ramsay Peale II
Silhouette
c. 1810-20
Owner: Alabama Department of Archives and History

Sarah Schanck Smock and Child

Micah Williams
Painting
January 1819
Owner: Monmouth County Historical Association

Mrs. Jacob Read (Catherine Van Horne)

Painting
c. 1817-22
Owner: Private collection

David Abeel

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Rutgers University

Sarah Creamer Gilman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815-20
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Portrait of James Miller

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Historic Arkansas Museum
Lawrence Augustus Rigail

Lawrence Augustus Rigail

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1821
Owner: Mrs. William Berry

Mrs. Spencer Gilchrist

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815-20
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Govert Haskins

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Soloman Avery

Micah Williams
Painting
1814-25
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Cadwallader David Colden

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1819
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Enoch Barr

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Private Collection

Marcia Lucretia Ames James

Ezra Ames
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art
Portrait of the Reverend Samuel C. Aiken

Portrait of the Reverend Samuel C. Aiken

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
c. 1820-25
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

William Adams Palmer

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
1815-25
Owner: Minneapolis Institute of Art
John Mason

John Mason

Charles Bird King
Painting
c. 1824
Owner: Gunston Hall Plantation

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