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Adna Tenney
Painting
c. 1830-70
Owner: Dartmouth College
Washington at Dorchester Heights

Washington at Dorchester Heights

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1830-70
Owner: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

Ver Planck Van Antwerp

John L. Harding
Painting
1836
Owner: Private Collection

Henry Philip Tappan

Alvah Bradish
Sculpture
c. 1830-70
Owner: University of Michigan

Thomas Fenwick Drayton

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1835-43
Owner: Museum of the Confederacy

Robert and Elizabeth Gilchrist

George Cooke
Painting
1836
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

George Washington

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
c. 1834-73
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy
George Washington

George Washington

Walter Ingalls
Painting
c. 1830-70
Owner: State of New Hampshire

Dewitt Clinton Thompson

William Smith Jewett
Painting
c. 1835-73
Owner: California Department of Parks and Recreation

Dyer Lathrop

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-75
Owner: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
George Washington

George Washington

Jean Alexandre Remy Couder
Painting
c. 1835-75
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830

George Catlin
Painting
1829-30
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

William Edward West
Painting
1838
Owner: Washington & Lee University

William Gray

Henry Dexter
Sculpture
1835-76
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

William Augustus Muhlenberg

Henry Colton Shumway
Painting
1830-70
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Charles Treadwell

George Southward
Painting
1835-75
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
J. D. Edwards

J. D. Edwards

J. B. Harrison
Painting
1833
Owner: Beverly Historical Society and Museum

Benjamin West

Edward Dalton Marchant
Painting
c. 1830-78
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Capt. Joseph Reddeford Walker

Capt. Joseph Reddeford Walker

Alfred Jacob Miller
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Joslyn Art Museum

Levi Woodbury

Thomas Bayley Lawson
Painting
c. 1830-70
Owner: State of New Hampshire

Joseph Warren Revere

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

The Honorable Charles Bridges

Augustus Fuller
Painting
1830-73
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three Children

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1835-70
Owner: Longwood College
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Ferdinand Pettrich
Sculpture
c. 1836-72
Owner: United Daughters of the Confederacy

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