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Henry Alexander Wise

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1830-35
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
George Washington (Porthole type)

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1835-60
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Nathaniel Barnwell Heyward

Charles Fraser
Painting
1839
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

William Bentley

Charlotte W. Gilbert
Painting
c. 1830-60
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Edwin Forrest

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: The Players

George Washington as the Young Surveyor

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

James Frothingham
Painting
c. 1830-64
Owner: Brooklyn Museum
Samuel Henry Early

Samuel Henry Early

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1830-1975
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

William Matthew Prior
Painting
c. 1830-60
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

George Washington (Athenaeum Type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private collection

Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen

Aramenta Dianthe Vail
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection
Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster

Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
early 19th-mid 19th century
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Studies, with Washington's Head

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Drawing
1831-1868
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

John Durrie

Nathaniel Jocelyn
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

Family of Mrs. John Augustine Washington of Mount Vernon

John Gadsby Chapman
Painting
c. 1835
Owner: George Washington Masonic Memorial

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

John Ericsson

Horace Kneeland
Sculpture
c. 1830-60
Owner: National Museum, Stockholm

Inventor John Ericsson

Horace Kneeland
Sculpture
c. 1830-60
Owner: National Museum, Stockholm

Portrait of John Durrie

George Henry Durrie
Painting
mid 19th century

WInfield Scott

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
Child in Red Dress

Child in Red Dress

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1831-60
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Basmath Gould Negus

Caroline Negus Hildreth
Painting
c. 1835-67
Owner: Petersham Historical Society

Elizabeth Phillips Stanford

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-60
Owner: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

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