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Moody Kent

Edwin Tryon Billings
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society

Kitty Pruyn

Erastus Dow Palmer
Sculpture
1859
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

John Morgan Timmons

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Private collection
John Henry Martindale

John Henry Martindale

Mathew B. Brady
Photograph
c. 1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. F.B. Wilde

Rosa Catharine Muhlenberg Nicolls

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Private Collection

Eliza Toland Hommell and George Washington Hommell

John Vanderlyn
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Michael Edgar Shawe

Frederick E. Cohen
Painting
1847-53
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Unidentified Woman

Sturtevant J. Hamblin
Painting
c. 1840s

Diademia Knowlton Camp

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Unknown Owner

Luther Campbell Wilson

Phineas Staunton
Painting
1855
Owner: UNLOCATED

Morris Hunt

William Morris Hunt
Painting
1857
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Elizabeth Mead Soule

Charles Soule
Painting
1855-65
Owner: Dayton Art Institute

Henry Stevens Wadsworth

Henry Inman
Painting
c. 1850-60
Owner: New Jersey State Museum

Henry Clay

Thomas Ball
Sculpture
1858
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bettie Wayles Peterson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1855-70

James Innerarity Minor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1854

Lucretia Randolph Garfield

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: Private collection

Charles A. Poulson

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1856
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Mrs. Joseph Kelly

Charles Backofen
Painting
1850
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Dr. Caleb Green

Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Painting
c. 1845-50
Owner: Homer Central School District

Polly Ware Howland

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-55
Owner: Historic Deerfield

Mary Williams Burke

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1850-60
Andrews Children

Andrews Children

William Matthew Prior
Painting
1852
Owner: Dietrich Brothers Americana Corporation
Patent Office

Patent Office

Print
c. 1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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    • Paintings  6519
    • Photographs  1386
    • Drawings  868
    • Sculpture  619
    • Miniatures  567
    • Exterior views  489
    • Prints  472
    • Silhouettes  114
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