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James Valentine Campbell

Alvah Bradish
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Nathan McLean

Elizabeth Peale
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Minnesota Historical Society

Ezekiel Hersey Derby

Charles Osgood
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Salem Maritime National Historic Site

John Beale Bordley

Richard Morell Staigg
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Rufus Choate

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Thompson Bartoll

William Thompson Bartoll
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: The Henry Ford

Robert McCleave and Wife, Eliza Ann Chase McCleave

James S. Hathaway
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association

Charles M. Taft

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1854
Owner: Boston Athenaeum

Lorenzo Papanti

Raffaelle Genovese
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Eastman Johnson Sketching

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Drawing
1849-51
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Thomas William Carpenter

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Mrs. Cummins Rawson

Daniel Webster

Photograph
c. 1850-52
Owner: Dartmouth College

George Washington

Ernst Georg Fischer
Painting
c. 1848-58
Owner: The White House

Robert Oliver

Louise-Adeline Rentier Chouvet
Painting
c. 1845-50
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Lucretia Mott

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Henry Dalton

Henry Dalton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Arizona Historical Society

Samuel Leonard

William Allen Wall
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Old Colony Historical Society

Francis Wayland

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Brown University
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Thomas Bayley Lawson
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Dartmouth College

Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Edward Sheffield Bartholomew
Sculpture
c. 1846
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum
John James Audubon

John James Audubon

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Hart Benton

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1845
Owner: Library of Congress

Thomas Handasyd Perkins

Richard Saltonstall Greenough
Sculpture
c. 1845
Owner: Boston Athenaeum

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