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Charles Henry Augustus Carter

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-35
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Andrew Jackson, Jr.

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: The Hermitage: Home of President Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay

Henry Clay

George Cooke
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Ezra Ames Mulford

Ezra Ames
Painting
c. 1819
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Ann Alexander Henry

Ezra Ames
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Dorothy Waltz Kerner

Aaron Houghton Corwine
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: Filson Historical Society

Unidentified Woman

Sarah Lockhart Allen
Painting
c. 1827
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Fannie K. Michler

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection
DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton

George Catlin
Print
c. 1825
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Eliza Shaw Compton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820

Woman in Red Shawl

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Cornell University

Paul Beck

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Henry Marback

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
Richard Varick

Richard Varick

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1831
Owner: Currier Gallery of Art

Hermanas Alricks

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Nathaniel Shaw Perkins

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1815-25
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Margaret Babcock

Margaret Babcock

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1822
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Sarah Ann Sleight Dewitt

Ammi Phillips
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Mrs. William Hunter

Nathaniel Rogers
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
John Colley

John Colley

John Brewster
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Dartmouth College

John Watts, Jr.

Henry Inman
Painting
1825-35
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Eleanor Kingsland Field Jay

Giovanni Battista Canevari
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: John Jay Homestead State Historic Site

Frederick Gale

Ammi Phillips
Painting
1815
Owner: Peter Tillou Collection

Sarah Maynard Wetherbee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-25
Owner: American Antiquarian Society

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