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Elias Howe

Elias Howe

Salathiel Ellis
Medal
c. 1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Marvin Sadik
George Washington Whistler

George Washington Whistler

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

John Fisk Allen

D. D'Estrada
Sculpture
c. 1830-40
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Elisha Buchanan

Isaac Sheffield
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Jonathan Adams Bartlett

Jonathan Adams Bartlett
Painting
c. 1841
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Jane Cooper Sully Darley

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1835
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Francois Pettipain

Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe

William Edward West
Painting
1837-41
Owner: Circut Court for Baltimore City

Andrew Kingsbury

William Henry Brown
Silhouette
c. 1831-43
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Bezaleel Smith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn

Thomas Badger
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Maine Historical Society

Benjamin Berry Kercheval

Unidentified Artist
Unknown
c. 1830-40
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

William Brown

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association

Sir William Penn

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1837-45
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia

Hollingsworth Family

George Hollingsworth
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Robert Maitland

Edward Ludlow Mooney
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: New-York Historical Society

William Giles Goddard

Jean Paul Selinger
Painting
1836-46
Owner: Brown University

William Howe Church

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Bristol Historical and Preservation Society

Thomas Sully

E. Henry Darley
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: National Academy of Design

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph Ropes
Drawing
c. 1830-40
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

Abraham Gulielmus Dominy Tuthill

Abraham Gulielmus Dominy Tuthill
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Shelburne Museum
David Ramsay

David Ramsay

Charles Fraser
Drawing
c. 1835
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Daniel Wadsworth

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1835-45
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Newton Simeon Hubbard

Deacon Robert Peckham
Painting
c. 1842
Owner: Old Sturbridge Village

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