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Mrs. Alvan Clark (Maria Pease)

Alvan Clark
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Frances Blair Peirce

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
before 1842
Owner: Private Collection

Mary Inman

Henry Inman
Painting
1845
Owner: Private collection

Unidentified Man

Susan C. Waters
Painting
c. 1835-40
Owner: New York State Historical Association

William Kidd

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Fannie Phelps Pettibone

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Simsbury Historical Society

Martha Warren Southworth

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1840s
Owner: Private collection

Frances Adelia Chaffin

Deacon Robert Peckham
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Skinner, Inc.

Mother

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

Edmund March Blunt

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Mystic Seaport, Inc.

The Nellis Children of Sherburne, New York

Calvin Balis
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Wa-ta-we-huch-a-nah (Le général commandant), Ioway

George Catlin
Painting
1845-46
Owner: Musee de l'Homme
Charles L. Schlatter

Charles L. Schlatter

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1842
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Chapman Johnson

James Westhall Ford
Painting
c. 1829-49
Owner: University of Virginia

Alexander Scammel Wadsworth

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1830-40
Owner: Maine Historical Society

Sophia Walker Silver Williams

Frederick Styles Agate
Painting
c. 1835-44
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

James Norris

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-40
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Suzannah Crosby Morton

Manuel Joachim de Franca
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Ellen Morton Baily Brown

Repulsion of the British at Fort Erie, 15th August 1814

E. C. Watmough
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Henry Clay

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Ackland Art Museum

John Marshall Krum

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Tah-col-o-quoit

Tah-col-o-quoit

George Cooke
Print
1842
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Betty A. and Lloyd G. Schermer

James Youngs Smith

J. H. Gillespie
Painting
c. 1834-40
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Osceola, War Chief of the Seminoles

Robert John Curtis
Painting
c. 1838

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    • Miniatures  1305
    • Photographs  584
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