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Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Head of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

George Augustus Baker Jr.
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joseph Warren Revere

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

Lucy Ainsworth Cooke

T. H. Badger
Painting
c. 1840-82
Owner: Vermont Historical Society

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

Girondole candlestick

Decorative Arts
mid-late 19th century
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Estate of William Woodville, VIII

The Mower

Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Drawing
1842-1888
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Horace Wells

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-80
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

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
Anthony Wayne

Anthony Wayne

Moses Billings
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: Erie Historical Museum and Planetarium
Burrell Thomas Boatwright

Burrell Thomas Boatwright

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1840-88
Owner: Private collection
James Robert Powell

James Robert Powell

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Alabama Department of Archives and History

Unidentified Child

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
c. 1840-80
Owner: Milwaukee Public Library

John Callender

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1840-88
Owner: Redwood Library & Athenaeum

Nathaniel Thayer

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1840-88
Owner: First Church of Christ

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