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Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Frannie Dickinson
Decorative Arts
mid 19th century
Owner: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College

Joseph Todhunter

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

George Washington

Jane Stuart
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private Collection
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1823-80
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

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

William Bentley

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-82
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Jane Stuart
Painting
19th century
Owner: U.S. Department of State

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

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

John Penn

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1823-88
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia

John Durand, III

Asher Brown Durand
Painting
early 19th-late 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Joel Hawes

Joel Hawes

Crow
Print
c. 1825-75
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Isaac Halsted Williamson

Isaac Halsted Williamson

Edward Ludlow Mooney
Painting
c. 1823-87
Owner: Princeton University

Joseph O. V. S. Archambault

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

Frances A. Blake

Jeremiah Pearson Hardy
Painting
c. 1820-88
Owner: Bowdoin College

Bartholomew Gosnold and Native Americans

William Allen Wall
Painting
c. 1825-85
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum

Franklin Buchanan

Joseph Wood
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Unidentified Man

Jeremiah Pearson Hardy
Painting
c. 1820-80
Owner: Colby College Museum of Art

Unidentified Woman and Child

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1820-1885
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Fitz-randolph

John Gadsby Chapman
Painting
c. 1827-89

Ophelia (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hemingway Children

Jeremiah Pearson Hardy
Painting
c. 1820-80
Owner: Colby College Museum of Art

Sarah May Holland

George Harvey
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert Patterson

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Private Collection

Conway Robinson

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1825-84
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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