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Charles Augustus Dewey, Probably

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1835-45
Owner: Williams College Museum of Art

Henry Morgan

Rosa Bacigalupi
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Beverly Historical Society and Museum
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Robert Ball Hughes
Sculpture
c. 1832
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

William H. Clark

Henry F. Prime
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Columbia County Historical Society, Inc.

William Wirt

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1833
Owner: Boston Athenaeum
Gilbert Stuart

Gilbert Stuart

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1825
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee

Isaac Lawrence

Nathaniel Rogers
Painting
c. 1834-44
Owner: Unknown Owner
Henry Laurens

Henry Laurens

William G. Armstrong
Drawing
c. 1835
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Edwin Forrest

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1832
Owner: Edwin Forrest Home for Retired Actors (closed)

William Campbell Preston

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
1837
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Mathew Marvin

Asher Brown Durand
Painting
c. 1825-30
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

Fanny Kemble as Julia

Thomas Sully
Painting
1833
Owner: Rosenbach Museum & Library

John Paradise

John Paradise
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Samuel Appleton

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
1835-45
Owner: Boston Athenaeum

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Norton

Samuel Stillman Osgood
Painting
1839
Owner: New-York Historical Society

E. H. Fisher

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1835-45
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Drawing
c. 1835-68
Owner: Mr. & Mrs. James R. Leutze
George Washington

George Washington

Asher Brown Durand
Painting
1835
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

Washington Irving

Robert Ball Hughes
Sculpture
1836
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Washington and Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
1824-30
Owner: Litchfield Historical Society and Museum

Self-portrait of Phineas Staunton

Phineas Staunton
Painting
1844?
Owner: UNLOCATED

Thomas Nevins

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1805-39
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Major George Tisdale Hodges

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 1830s
Owner: Private collection
Edwin Forrest

Edwin Forrest

Unidentified Artist
Print
1839
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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