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Richard Varick

Henry Inman
Painting
1829-31
Owner: Morristown National Historic Park, National Park Service
Mrs. Nolan

Mrs. Nolan

Nathaniel Rogers
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: UNLOCATED
Octavine Le Blanc Jarreau

Octavine Le Blanc Jarreau

Louis Antoine Collas
Painting
1826
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Portrait of Boy (Augustus Hubbard)

Ruth Henshaw Miles Bascom
Drawing
c. 1830
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Indians Lamenting the Approach of the White Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)

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

Sarah Cusap

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-1820
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Maria Curtis Hoag

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1824
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum

Heman Hosford

Benjamin Franklin Mason
Painting
1825

Daniel Arnold

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Private Collection

Hylah Bevier Hasbrouck

Ammi Phillips
Painting
1821-25
Owner: Huguenot Historical Society

John* Nice

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1810-25
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Gen. Jacob Jennings Brown

Anson Dickinson
Painting
December 20, 1826

Unidentified Woman Wearing White Veil from the Middleton Watercolor Album

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Edward Carrington, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Ambrose Marechal

Philip Thomas Coke Tilyard
Painting
1818-28
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Eliza Astor Rumpff

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Aldrich Collection ("Rokeby")
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Thomas Gimbrede
Print
1826
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Frederick Gore King

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
c. 1827
Owner: National Academy of Design
William Allen

William Allen

Thomas Badger
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Bowdoin College

David Hunter

Ammi Phillips
Painting
c. 1820
Samuel Brooks

Samuel Brooks

William Brown Cooper
Painting
1825-35
Owner: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Jeremiah Smith

William Jennys
Painting
1815-25
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

Man Reading by Candlelight

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1818-1828
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Margaret Burr Burnham

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1830
Owner: Portland Museum of Art

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