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Mrs. James Bowdoin, Bradlee

Francis Alexander
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Historic New England

Poole Family Portrait

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Twelve Plaster Casts of Cameos of Gentlemen

Erastus Dow Palmer
Sculpture
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mrs. Charles James Steadman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1845-52
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

Thomas W. Olcott

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Charles Volkmar

Charles Volkmar
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Elizabeth Routh

Justin Sancan
Painting
c. 1853
Owner: Pilgrimage Garden Club

Joseph Tryon

Alvan Clark
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ephraim Buck

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Boston Medical Library

Caroline Pepoon Olcott

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Albany County Historical Society

Martha Jarvis Morris

A. G. Poindexter
Painting
c. 1851
Owner: William Hebron Morris Owner: Dean Morris Alexander Owner: Joseph Morris

Franklin Pierce

Photograph
c. 1852
Owner: Chicago History Museum
William Stuart Parrott

William Stuart Parrott

Charles Fenderich
Print
c. 1845-46
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Library of Congress

Robert Hopkins Hatton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Tennessee State Museum
Mary Hobson Lyons

Mary Hobson Lyons

Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume
Painting
1840-50
Owner: Valentine Museum

William Henry Harrison

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Edith Dean Wyatt Stetson

Edith Dean Wyatt Stetson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Eugenia Alberta Coleman
Charles Harris

Charles Harris

Francis Alexander
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
William E. Carswell

William E. Carswell

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: Mrs. Rufus Carswell Sr.

John Kennett Clay and Henry de Boisfeuillet Clay

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1843
Owner: Mrs. Roy T. Edwards

Portrait of George Rex Graham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Swope Art Museum

Eliza Welch Stone

Thomas Skynner
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Sarah Childress Polk

Sarah Childress Polk

John Sartain
Print
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

John McClellan

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

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