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David Camden Deleon

David Camden Deleon

Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Painting
1849
Owner: The Jewish Museum

Seth Turner

William Rimmer
Painting
c. 1840-79
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Joseph Warren Revere

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Joseph O. V. S. Archambault

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1821-41
Owner: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society
Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

William Sanford Rogers

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1840-72
Owner: Newport Historical Society

Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Robert Davis Early and Brother William Early

Robert Davis Early and Brother William Early

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Mary Frances Hastings Parker

Mary Frances Hastings Parker

John Pope
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Elizabeth R. Close

Joseph Gilbert Totten

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
c. 1840-60
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
Charles Wynn Thurston

Charles Wynn Thurston

John Beale Bordley
Painting
c. 1843
Owner: Julia Booker Howard

Elias Durand

David Benjamin Bechtel
Painting
c. 1840-74
Owner: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

General John Charles Fremont

Thomas Hicks
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Henry Flad

Henry Flad

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1846
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Seated Study of M.D.

Eastman Johnson
Drawing
1840-70
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Willard Hall

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-73
Owner: Historical Society of Delaware

Thomas James Churchill

Henry Byrd
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Arkansas Arts Center

Nancy Griswold English

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: New Haven Museum

Seth Perkins Staples

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1849-73
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Benjamin Gratz Brown

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Liberty Hall Museum

Italian Boy

William Morris Hunt
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Peter Fritz

O. S. Freeland
Painting
c. 1840-55
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Doctor Benjamin Bruno Poellnitz

Doctor Benjamin Bruno Poellnitz

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1844
Owner: Private collection

Unidentified Man

Edward J. Kuntze
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

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