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Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen

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

Josiah Quincy

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt as an Infant

Mary Stevenson Cassatt
Drawing
c. 1839-41
Owner: Musée du Louvre

Colonel Sessums and Colonel James Spencer Bailey

Silhouette
c. 1843-57
Owner: Sally Stone Trotter

Self Portrait at Easel

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

Sarah Josepha Hale

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1835-40
Owner: Richards Free Library

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1846
Owner: Schwarz Gallery

Portrait of George Washington

Rembrandt Peale
Drawing
c. 1838
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

Francis James Child, Edward Tyrell Channing, and an Unidentified Woman

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
1845-61
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington

Ferdinand Pettrich
Sculpture
c. 1840-41

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre

Charles Richard Meade
Photograph
1848
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

James Kent

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
1848
Owner: Public Design Commission of the City of New York

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1847-48

George Washington (Porthole)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Dallas Museum of Art

Self-Portrait as a Young Woman

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Senator John Heinz History Center

Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (Mrs. Seba Smith)

John Wesley Paradise
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: National Gallery of Art

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: UNLOCATED

George Washington (Athenaeum Type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: The Westwood Historical Society, Inc.

J. Pierpont Morgan

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1854
Owner: The Morgan Library & Museum

Daniel Webster

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1838
Owner: Dartmouth College

Lamp with bust of George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
c. 1850
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century

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    • Miniatures  1305
    • Photographs  584
    • Exterior views  559
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    • Drawings  539
    • Sculpture  457
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