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Robert J. Arundel

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
c. 1825
Owner: Private Collection

Pedro Alcántara de Toledo y Salm-Salm, XIII Duque del Infantado

Vicente López
Painting
c. 1827
Owner: Iñigo de Arteaga Martín, Duque del Infantado

William Seabury

William Sidney Mount
Drawing
1825
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Robert Gilmor

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1826
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jesse Bushyhead

Charles Bird King
Painting
1828
Owner: Anschutz Collection

Mrs. Selah Tucker

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1830
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Triple Portrait

J. A. Davis
Painting
mid 19th century

John McNairy

John C. Grimes
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Tennessee State Museum

Daniel Stewart Macauley

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
1824
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Leonard Gansevoort

Ezra Ames
Painting
c. 1816
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

James Colles

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
1822
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

N. S. N. Allen

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1810-20
Owner: Newport Historical Society

Mrs. Strong

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
mid 18th-early 19th century
Owner: [Destroyed]
John C. Tillinghast

John C. Tillinghast

Thomas Sully
Painting
1820
Owner: Private collection

Benjamin Cooley Nuttman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-27
Owner: New Jersey Historical Society

Charles Calvert

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1820-50
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Mrs. George Hume Steuart

Anna Claypoole Peale
Painting
1826
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
John Rathbone, Sr.

John Rathbone, Sr.

Henry Inman
Painting
late 1820s
Owner: Columbia University, Art Properties

I. P. Todd

Peale Museum Philadelphia
Silhouette
c. 1810-20
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

William Hale

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Worthington Johnson

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1823-27
Owner: Historical Society of Frederick County, Inc.

John Sullivan Pierce

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1824
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

George Baxley

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1810-25
Owner: Private Collection

Frederic Perry Stanton

Horatio Stone
Sculpture
19th century
Owner: Kansas Museum of History

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