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Robert Oliver

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

John Appleton

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1830
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum
Charles Robert Leslie

Charles Robert Leslie

Charles Robert Leslie
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: UNLOCATED

John McTavish

William James Hubard
Painting
c. 1829-32
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Portrait of a Chinese Merchant

George Chinnery
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Royal Prescott

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

The Knapp Children

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
c. 1833-34
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: Dartmouth College
Benjamin Ogle Tayloe

Benjamin Ogle Tayloe

Charles Bird King
Painting
c. 1830

Frederic Tudor

Francis Alexander
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Washington Irving

Robert Le Fevre
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Jerry E. Tralins

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

William James Hubard
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Sheldon ?

Asahel Lynde Powers
Painting
c. 1831
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Nicholas Biddle

Nicholas Biddle

James Barton Longacre
Drawing
c. 1830
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Edmondson

Philip Thomas Coke Tilyard
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Eloisa Matilda Burfoot Friend

Eloisa Matilda Burfoot Friend

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1820-38
Owner: Valentine Museum

James Fenimore Cooper

John Wesley Jarvis
Drawing
c. 1820-30
Owner: Harry Ransom Center

Jesse Hawley

Grove Sheldon Gilbert
Painting
c. 1825-1830
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Horatio Greenough
Sculpture
c. 1833
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum

John Vanderlyn

John Vanderlyn
Drawing
c. 1820-30
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Amos Slaymaker

Amos Slaymaker

Hannah Slaymaker Evans
Painting
1825-37
Owner: Private Collection

Daniel Webster

William Russell Birch
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benjamin O'Fallon

Benjamin O'Fallon

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1833
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Edward Gesuele Peterson and Nancy Gesuele Peterson

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