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Adeline Foster Bain

Ira Chaffee Goodell
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: Columbia County Historical Society, Inc.

Elizabeth Beale Bordley, Mrs. James Gibson

Thomas Sully
Painting
1822
Owner: Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen, PhD, Foundation

Catharine Meyers Eichholtz

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
c. 1819
Owner: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Woman to left (Mrs. M. Paget)

William James Hubard
Silhouette
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Lady with a Letter

Leopold Paul Unger
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Allen Trimble

Matthew Harris Jouett
Painting
c. 1819
Owner: Ohio Historical Society

Vredenberg Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1825-35
Owner: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Judge George Mathews, Jr. (1774-1836)

Painting
c. 1834
Owner: Unknown Owner

Mrs. George Gardom

Abraham B. Rockey
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Juliet Paradise

John Paradise
Painting
c. 1815-1820
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Oliver Pierce

Painting
1826
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Children in the Park

Henry Inman
Painting
1824
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Susan Scott Price

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: College of William & Mary

Benjamin Smith Rotch

Peale's Museum Silhouette
Silhouette
1825
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum
Letter from John Vaughan to Jeremiah W. Bronaugh concerning 1817 James Monroe peace medals

Letter from John Vaughan to Jeremiah W. Bronaugh concerning 1817 James Monroe peace medals

Document
February 11, 1823
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Betty A. and Lloyd G. Schermer

Edward Archer

Jacob W. Franck
Painting
c. 1810-25

Edward Osborne Friend

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1820-38
Owner: Valentine Museum

Daniel Graham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Tennessee State Museum

John Kennedy

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Smith College Museum of Art

John Haslett

Eliab Metcalf
Painting
c. 1823
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Miss Wheeler

O. I. Bear
Painting
c. 1810-20

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Medal
1824
Owner: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

Unidentified Woman

Borden Limner
Painting
c. 1830

Mrs. Joseph D. Hunt

Ammi Phillips
Painting
1828?

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