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Thomas Sully

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1848-72
Owner: Library Company of Philadelphia

Bela Peck

Alexander Hamilton Emmons
Painting
c. 1840-70
Owner: Slater Memorial Museum

Ver Planck Van Antwerp

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Private Collection
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck

John Vanderlyn
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Rutgers University

Armistead Lindsay Long

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1845-91
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

John James Audubon

Charles Henry Granger
Painting
c. 1840-74
Owner: Saco Museum
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
c. 1840-70
Owner: Union League Club of Chicago

Martha Washington

William Matthew Prior
Painting
c. 1850-1870
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen

Aramenta Dianthe Vail
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

George Cooke
Painting
before 1849
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

James Guthrie

John Mix Stanley
Unknown
before 1872
Owner: U.S. Department of Treasury

John C. Breckinridge

John R. Johnston
Painting
before 1895
Owner: UNLOCATED

Roswell Farnham ?

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection
Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
mid 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Augustus Henry Hayden

Charles Fraser
Painting
1844
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Robert E. Lee

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1846-1848
Owner: Private Collection

John Wilkens

Unidentified Artist
(not assigned)
c. 1850-70
Owner: Private collection

Philander Chase

Stephen Olmstead Day
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Kenyon College

The Founding Fathers Cup and Saucer

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
1840-75
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Gannaway Brownlow

William Gannaway Brownlow

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
mid 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Friedrich Carl Gröger

Henry Gerhard Fette
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck

John Vanderlyn
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Rutgers University

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