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John McComb

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Public Design Commission of the City of New York

George Heriot

Andrew Geddes
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Captain William Gordon Weld

Michele Felice Corne
Painting
c. 1800-25
Owner: Private Collection

Auto Portrait

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

Silhouette of Nathaniel West

Jarvis Frary Hanks
Silhouette
early 19th century
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Bannerman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1814-15
Owner: Southern Oregon Historical Society / Jacksonville Museum

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington (Atheneaum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1800-20

John Jay

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: Private Collection
Portable physiognotrace used by Raphaelle Peale

Portable physiognotrace used by Raphaelle Peale

Art Implement
early 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchased through a generous donation from the Barra Foundation
George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Hartford Public High School

Rachel and Andrew Talmadge

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: The Hermitage: Home of President Andrew Jackson

Mrs. Crane

Ammi Phillips
Painting
c. 1814-19
Owner: Newark Museum

John Armentaire Monges

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Drawing
c. 1800-27
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Barbara Burnham

Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Harriet Clarke Mack

William M. S. Doyle
Silhouette
c. 1805-20
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Charles Humphreys

Peale Museum Philadelphia
Silhouette
c. 1805-20
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Benjamin Logan

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Cincinnati Historical Society
Return Jonathan Meigs

Return Jonathan Meigs

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1805-24
Owner: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Waring

Charles Fraser
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Mrs. Jennie Marion Hagen Boyd

Unidentified Man

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Private Collection

Susannah Brigham Parkman Rockwood

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

Gentleman with Initials P. T. B.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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