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Raphael Semmes

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-60
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Benson Heighe Blake

Benson Heighe Blake

Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Stanley C. Schuler

Thomas Fenwick Drayton

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1835-43
Owner: Museum of the Confederacy
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Mr. Brinari
Painting
indeterminable
Owner: U.S. Department of State
The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Henry W. Hilliard

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Henry W. Hilliard

John Plumbe
Print
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Henry Alexander Wise

Henry Alexander Wise

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
Cornelius Felton and Alfred Hennen

Cornelius Felton and Alfred Hennen

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Winfield Scott and John Ellis Wool

Winfield Scott and John Ellis Wool

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Henry Alexander Wise

Henry Alexander Wise

Charles Fenderich
Print
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Library of Congress

William Franklin Switzler

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
1849
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Achille Perelli
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: New Orleans Museum of Art
David Camden Deleon

David Camden Deleon

Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Painting
1849
Owner: The Jewish Museum

Joseph Warren Revere

Jared Bradley Flagg
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Joseph O. V. S. Archambault

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1821-41
Owner: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society
Robert Anderson

Robert Anderson

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
Robert Davis Early and Brother William Early

Robert Davis Early and Brother William Early

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Joseph Gilbert Totten

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
c. 1840-60
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
Charles Wynn Thurston

Charles Wynn Thurston

John Beale Bordley
Painting
c. 1843
Owner: Julia Booker Howard

General John Charles Fremont

Thomas Hicks
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Henry Flad

Henry Flad

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1846
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Thomas James Churchill

Henry Byrd
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Arkansas Arts Center
Benjamin Gratz Brown

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Liberty Hall Museum

Peter Fritz

O. S. Freeland
Painting
c. 1840-55
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Doctor Benjamin Bruno Poellnitz

Doctor Benjamin Bruno Poellnitz

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1844
Owner: Private collection

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