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Sketch of Mrs. Tiffanny (verso)

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
mid 19th-early 20th century
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unidentified Woman

Hermenegildo Bustos
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Museo de Historia Mexicana

Catherine Jane Eliot Norton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Alexander William Doniphan

Unidentified Artist
Painting
before 1904
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Herbert Augustine Claiborne

Flavius James Fisher
Drawing
1855-1905

John Halstead

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1851-1900
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

James W. Robinson

Henry Arthur McArdle
Painting
c. 1855-1908
Owner: Daughters of Republic Texas at Alamo Library

Leah Abrans Whitlock

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
late 19th century
Owner: Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives Trust
Mrs. Bushrod Taylor

Mrs. Bushrod Taylor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

James B. Finley

William J. Hinchey
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Head of a Boy

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary Fyler

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Henry Clay

Henry Clay

Charles F. Berger
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Dr. A. Rottanzi

Dr. A. Rottanzi

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1855-1900
Owner: de Young Museum
Catherine Owen Ready Baird

Catherine Owen Ready Baird

William Brown Cooper
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Thomas Dent Mutter

Peter C. Reniers
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Bust of Man

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Drawing
1850-1903
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unidentified Man

Thomas Ball
Sculpture
c. 1850-1900
Owner: University Art Museum, Arizona State University
Richard Ogden Driving Tandem

Richard Ogden Driving Tandem

Thomas Hill
Painting
1855-1905
Owner: de Young Museum

George Steers

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

Campbell, Clergyman and Servant of the Estate of Allan Pinkerton

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
late 19th century
Owner: New York State Historical Association

Zachary Taylor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 19th century

By Candlelight

Charlotte Gebhardt Morse
Painting
c. 1850-1907
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Judah Philip Benjamin

Judah Philip Benjamin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850-1900
Owner: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

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