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Samuel Appleton

Horatio Greenough
Sculpture
c. 1825-40
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Bird King
Painting
c. 1820-40
Owner: Redwood Library & Athenaeum

Fanny Morey Wheaton

Eunice Makepeace Towle
Painting
c. 1825-40
Owner: Wheaton College

John Moss

William Henry Brown
Silhouette
c. 1828-47
Owner: Dr. & Mrs. Roger W. Moss
James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper

Amélie Kautz De Lacepede
Print
c. 1830-40
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Edward Everett

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1825-40
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Edwin Forrest

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-40
Owner: Harvard University Theatre Collection
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Charles Bird King
Painting
c. 1820-40
Owner: Redwood Library & Athenaeum

Thomas Dean

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-42

Ver Planck Van Antwerp

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Private Collection
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-40
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Charles Kemble

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1824-46
Owner: New-York Historical Society
James Madison

James Madison

Painting
c. 1828-40
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg
George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1830-40
Owner: State Historical Society of Missouri

Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel de Tocqueville

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Private collection

John Caldwell Calhoun

Washington Blanchard
Painting
c. 1830-1835
Owner: New-York Historical Society
John F. Darby

John F. Darby

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1828-49
Owner: Boston Athenaeum

Edwin Forrest

G. Addis
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Harvard University Theatre Collection

John James Audubon

Adolph D. Rinck
Painting
c. 1830-5
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Louisa C. Strobel (self-portrait)

Louisa Catherine Strobel
Painting
before 1840
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art
Mr. Sully Watson

Mr. Sully Watson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
before 1840

Charles Willson Peale (Possibly)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-49
Owner: Private collection

Willard Family Portrait

John S. Blunt
Painting
c. 1834-35

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