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Beverly Allen

Louis Schultze
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Mr. Charles Crocker

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th-late 19th century
Owner: California Railroad Museum
Benjamin Gratz Brown

Benjamin Gratz Brown

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Liberty Hall Museum
Gideon Johnson Pillow

Gideon Johnson Pillow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: James K. Polk Memorial Association

Herbert A. Claiborne

James Westhall Ford
Painting
c. 1840-50

Nathaniel Thayer

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1840-88

Stephen Codman

Alvan Clark
Painting
c. 1840-87
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of Major David E. A. Strong

Portrait of Major David E. A. Strong

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1830s
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

The Artist's Wife

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

Rebecca Ann Reger Seay

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1846-81
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Henry W. Slocum

Henry W. Slocum

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Charles Old

James Westhall Ford
Painting
1840-50
Owner: Valentine Museum

David Camden De Leon

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
1848
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Stanley B. Burns, MD & The Burns Archive
Henry Clay

Henry Clay

John Sartain
Drawing
c. 1840-80
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Franklin Buchanan

Franklin Buchanan

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Louis Capellino

Unidentified Girl

George Fuller
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Addison Gallery of American Art
Martin J. Crawford

Martin J. Crawford

Edward Ludlow Mooney
Painting
c. 1845-50
Owner: Augusta Crawford Burgard

John Buchanan Floyd

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1845-50
Owner: Private collection
David Dixon Porter

David Dixon Porter

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
c. 1841
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mrs. Millard Fillmore

Augustus Rockwell
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

General John Ellis Wool

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
1845-61
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Col. William T. Minter of the County of Dallas and His Lady Susan Bell

Col. William T. Minter of the County of Dallas and His Lady Susan Bell

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1845
Owner: Private collection
Joseph Washington Anderson

Joseph Washington Anderson

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

Thomas William Sweeny

Leonardo Barbieri
Painting
1848?
Owner: San Diego Historical Society

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