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Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ole Peter Hansen Balling
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The White House
General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

Thomas Dow Jones
Sculpture
mid-late 19th century
Owner: New Jersey Historical Society
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-80
Owner: American Antiquarian Society
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Robert Patterson

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Robert Patterson

John Plumbe
Print
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Thomas Bayley Lawson
Painting
c. 1844-88
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Ver Planck Van Antwerp

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Private Collection

Peter Cooper

George Augustus Baker Jr.
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Dr. John Warren

John Pope
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: Boston Medical Library

Armistead Lindsay Long

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1845-91
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

George Washington

William P. Babcock
Painting
1846-83
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Thomas Bayley Lawson
Painting
c. 1844-88
Owner: The Bostonian Society - Old State House
George Washington

George Washington

Clark Mills
Sculpture
c. 1849-80
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Virgil Nahl at Easel

Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen

Aramenta Dianthe Vail
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

George Cooke
Painting
before 1849
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Self Portrait at Easel

Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

John C. Breckinridge

John R. Johnston
Painting
before 1895
Owner: UNLOCATED

Jefferson Davis

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Beauvoir

Augustus Henry Hayden

Charles Fraser
Painting
1844
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Robert E. Lee

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1846-1848
Owner: Private Collection

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Benjamin Franklin Reinhardt
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Gouverneur Kemble Warren

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by the photography acquisitions endowment established by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation

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