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William Lloyd Garrison with Wendell Phillips and George Thompson

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1850-51
Owner: Boston Public Library
Joseph Hopkinson

Joseph Hopkinson

Albert Newsam
Print
1842
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

John Pope
Painting
c. 1840-61
Owner: City of Boston
Samuel Lewis Southard

Samuel Lewis Southard

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
Edward Harrison May

Edward Harrison May

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1849
Owner: National Academy of Design
Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1845
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Edith Cole Silberstein
John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy

Leopold Grozelier
Print
c. 1850-53
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
The Daguerreotypist

The Daguerreotypist

Unidentified Artist
Print
1849
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

John Putnam Andrews

Samuel Ropes Curwen
Drawing
c. 1845-55
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

General George Washington at the Battle of Trenton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795-c. 1840
Owner: Denver Art Museum
Benjamin Tappan and Mary Tappan Wright

Benjamin Tappan and Mary Tappan Wright

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1854
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mary Louise and Benjamin Wright

Francis Cabot

Henry Sargent
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Elisha Bartlett

Silhouette
1842
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine

George Washington Greene

Thomas Crawford
Sculpture
1840
Owner: Bowdoin College

Albert Van Beest

Albert van Beest
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum
James Hamilton Shegogue

James Hamilton Shegogue

James Hamilton Shegogue
Painting
c. 1841
Owner: National Academy of Design

James Ward

Liberato Cardella
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

William Elliott

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
c. 1838
Owner: Dallas Museum of Art

Capt. Benjamin Franklin Elliott

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Kathryn Sanders

Hugh McCulloh Birckhead

Henry Bebie
Painting
c. 1845-55
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Edmund Dwight

Chester Harding
Painting
1835-45
Owner: Historic New England

Francis Watts Chadbourne

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Brick Store Museum

Charles H. Peck

Manuel Joachim de Franca
Painting
1847
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Self-Portrait

George Hewitt Cushman
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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