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Unidentified Sea Captain

Isaac Sheffield
Painting
c. 1840-45
Owner: Joan R. Brownstein / American Folk Paintings

Frederick A. Douglass

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
mid 1840s
Owner: Chester County Historical Society

Sarah Goodridge

Sarah Goodridge
Painting
c. 1840-45
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

James Ronaldson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-50
Owner: Franklin Institute Science Museum
Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate

Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: University of Michigan Museum of Art

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-45
Owner: Edward Howell Reynolds

George Pope Morris

Charles Loring Elliott
Painting
c. 1842-1845
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Samuel Vaughan Merrick

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-55
Owner: Franklin Institute Science Museum

William A. Smith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-50
Owner: Randolph-Macon College

Reverend William White

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-50
Owner: Independence National Historical Park
George Washington

George Washington

James Frothingham
Painting
c. 1830-58
Owner: City of Boston

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-57
Owner: Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia

John Caldwell Calhoun

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
modeled 1835, carved 1859
Owner: North Carolina Museum of Art

Mark Hopkins

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-45
Owner: Williams College Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

Albert Gallatin Hoit
Painting
c. 1830-50
Owner: Sandwich (NH) Historical Society

George Perkins Marsh, Caroline Crane Marsh and unidentified woman

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1843-49
Owner: Library of Congress
Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison

Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts
Drawing
c. 1840-45
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1835-50
Owner: Chrysler Museum of Art

James Neilson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-50
Owner: Rutgers University

John Trumbull

Charles Cushing Wright
Medal
c. 1834-54
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

William Burgess Smith

Master Hankes
Silhouette
c. 1830-50
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
George Peter Alexander Healy

George Peter Alexander Healy

Savinien Edme Dubourjal
Painting
c. 1839-50

Jones Very

Samuel Ropes Curwen
Drawing
c. 1835-50
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Alfred Kelley

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1839-59
Owner: Ohio Historical Society

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