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Stephen Andrew Florentine Peletier

Eastman Johnson
Drawing
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Newark Museum

Dr. Bruno B. Poellnitz

P. Romer
Painting
c. 1852
Owner: Mr. & Mrs. John Ashcraft
General Stonewall Jackson

General Stonewall Jackson

Aurelius O. Revenaugh
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: J. B. Speed Art Museum
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

Nahum Ball Onthank
Painting
1845-88
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

John Quincy Adams

Edward Dalton Marchant
Painting
after 1840
Owner: Mrs. Thomas Nelson Perkins

A Girl with a Doll

George Fuller
Painting
1847-84
Owner: Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Walter Gwynn

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-65
Owner: Museum of the Confederacy

Girondole candlestick

Decorative Arts
mid-late 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Estate of William Woodville, VIII

William Bradford

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-60
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Alpheus Starkey Williams

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1847-57
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Pickering Dodge Allen

David A. Putnam
Painting
1840?
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Samuel Wethered

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Keziah Harwood (mother)

Burt Harwood
Painting
19th century
Owner: Mrs. Earl E. Worth

John Ellis Wool

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-45
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Daniel Gano

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Cincinnati Historical Society

David Glasgow Farragut

William Henry Philip
Sculpture
c. 1849-82
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Charles Lynde Frothingham

Charles Osgood
Painting
1849?
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

The Reverend Mr. Porteus of Brooklyn, New York

William Henry Philip
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
John Charles Fremont

John Charles Fremont

J. H. Bufford Lithography Company
Print
c. 1854-64
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Washington at Dorchester Heights

Washington at Dorchester Heights

Jane Stuart
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House

Caspar Wistar

Samuel Bell Waugh
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: University of Pennsylvania

Rachel as Lady Macbeth

Jane Stuart
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: The Players

Ambrose Everett Burnside

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Raleigh Colston

Raleigh Colston

Thomas Sully
Painting
1845-55
Owner: Private Collection

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