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Thomas Fenwick Drayton

Henry Inman
Painting
1828
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

James Barbour

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Virginia State Library

George Washington (Atheneum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-65
Owner: Private Collection

Catlin Dining with Mah-to-toh-pa (Four Bears), Mandan Chief, July 1832, at the Mandan Village, Upper Missouri

George Catlin
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: State Historical Society of North Dakota

Pamelia J. Smith Barlow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

Donald McKenzie

George Catlin
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Robert Hull Fleming Museum of the University of Vermont
Rembrandt Peale's easel

Rembrandt Peale's easel

Art Implement
mid 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; anonymous gift in memory of Edgar Lawrence Smith

Mrs. Huldah Ellsworth

James Sanford Ellsworth
Painting
mid 19th century

Infant with Rattle

William Matthew Prior
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Portrait Miniature of a Woman in Blue Holding a Book

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

George Cadwalader

Thomas Sully
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection
Portrait of Major David E. A. Strong

Portrait of Major David E. A. Strong

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830s
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Portrait of a Young Woman

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

Poblana con Ramito de Rosas

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico

Portrait Miniature of Isabell Watkins Lampshear

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

Benjamin Brown French

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Thomas Hughes

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Thomas R. Hughes

Portrait Miniature of a Boy

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

James Walker Fannin, Jr.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
c. 1825-72
Owner: Dallas Historical Society

General Luis G. Osollo

José Agustín Arrieta
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico

Charles Kanaina

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: State of Hawaii
Lafayette in Prison at Olmutz

Lafayette in Prison at Olmutz

Tompkins Harrison Matteson
Painting
19th century
Owner: Lafayette College

John Clifford Pemberton

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1825-35
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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