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James Armistead Lafayette

John Blennerhassett Martin
Painting
c. 1824
Owner: Valentine Museum
Washington Family

Washington Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Self-Portrait

Joshua Johnson
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Flint Institute of Arts

Nancy

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Joel Roberts Poinsett

Joel Roberts Poinsett

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: City of Charleston, South Carolina

James William Wallack

C. Tomkins
Drawing
1815-25
Owner: Harvard University Theatre Collection

Lloyd Nicholas Rogers

Joseph Wood
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy

William James Hubard
Silhouette
c. 1820
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Margaret Garber Blue

George Leonard Perkins

Alvan Fisher
Painting
c. 1815-20
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Benjamin Franklin Saltar

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: City of Portsmouth
Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

Elizabeth Emmet
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: New-York Historical Society

James Kent

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Stephen Brown

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Concord Public Library
Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Bass Otis
Painting
c. 1817
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Peckham-Sawyer Family

Deacon Robert Peckham
Painting
c. 1817
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Isaac Pinckney

Henry Peckham
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Israel Dodge

James Frothingham
Painting
c. 1810-22
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1817
Owner: The White House

John Lilley

Ethan Allen Greenwood
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Thaddeus Mason Harris

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Unknown Owner

John Amory, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Joseph Rodman Drake

Nathaniel Rogers
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Mrs. John Hall Wheelock

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

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