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John Adams

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
1823-24
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
John Adams

John Adams

Nicolas Eustache Maurin
Print
c. 1828
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Charles Turner
Print
1825
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Edward Everett

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1828
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin

Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin

Frank William Wilkin
Painting
c. 1820
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Mabel Wiles, 1948
James Monroe

James Monroe

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Horatio Greenough
Sculpture
c. 1830
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1824
Owner: New-York Historical Society
John Wesley Jarvis

John Wesley Jarvis

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1821
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Isaac Danforth

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

John Adams

John Doggett
Painting
1821
Owner: [Destroyed]
James Gibson

James Gibson

Benjamin Trott
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: UNLOCATED

Benjamin I. Cohen

Joseph Wood
Painting
c. 1818
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Nicolas Eustache Maurin
Print
c. 1828
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Junius Brutus Booth as Brutus in "Brutus" by John Payne

John B. Neagle
Painting
1827
Owner: Museum of the City of New York, Theatre Collection
George Washington (Porthole type)

George Washington (Porthole type)

Porumidi
Painting
c. 1825-1900
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Benjamin West

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Thomas Alston

Louis Antoine Collas
Painting
c. 1816
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art
Southworth Allen Howland

Southworth Allen Howland

Charles Curtis
Painting
1825
Owner: Old Sturbridge Village
William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount
Painting
1828
Owner: Long Island Museum

John Brown Copp

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1800-1820
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Elizabeth Mosby Valentine and Two Children

Elizabeth Mosby Valentine and Two Children

George Cooke
Painting
1825
Owner: Valentine Museum

John Gadsby, Jr.

Anson Dickinson
Painting
c. 1829
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

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