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Richard Derby

George Southward
Painting
c. 1825-75
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Noah Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-75
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
George Washington

George Washington

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
c. 1828-73
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

George Catlin
Painting
1829-30
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Gurdon Saltonstall

Charles Osgood
Painting
c. 1825-70
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

William Shippen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-74
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Lincoln and General B. F. Butler as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Adalbert John Volck
Print
19th century
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Chauncey Housman
Painting
c. 1825-73

Red Jacket

George Catlin
Painting
1826-72

Self-Portrait of John Goffe Rand

John Goffe Rand
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Sarah Craig Havemeyer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Margaret Havemeyer Tennant

John Neilson

James Hamilton Shegogue
Painting
c. 1825-70
Owner: State House Fine Arts Collection

Praying Man Ex-voto

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: San Antonio Museum of Art

Joseph O. V. S. Archambault

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1821-41
Owner: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society

Craven Peyton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Old State House Museum (Little Rock)

Triple Portrait

J. A. Davis
Painting
mid 19th century

Frederic Perry Stanton

Horatio Stone
Sculpture
19th century
Owner: Kansas Museum of History

Portrait Miniature of an Elderly Woman Wearing a Blue Dress and a Lacy White Bonnett

James Sanford Ellsworth
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Skinner, Inc.

Catherine Christine

Sarah Lockhart Allen
Painting
c. 1820-77
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Frederick Frelinghuysen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-76
Owner: Rutgers University

Hale Children

Unidentified Artist
Painting
Mid 19th century
Owner: Donald H. Laidlaw Owner: Robby Laidlaw

Frank Peck

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Portrait of a Boy

James Sanford Ellsworth
Painting
1822-74
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Isaac McKeever

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1820-78
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

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