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Sarah Morris Fish Webster

Carl Weidner
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Richard Snowden Andrews

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1885-95
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

John Lourie Beveridge

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1885-95
Owner: State of Illinois-Secretary of State

Michael Accolti

Ernest Pierre De Saisset
Painting
c. 1885-99
Owner: de Saisset Museum

Mary Gertrude Mead Abbey

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculpture
1889-90
Owner: Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, National Park Service

Unidentified Woman

Abbott Handerson Thayer
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: Denver Art Museum
Alice Sistare Larkin Toulmin

Alice Sistare Larkin Toulmin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1885
Owner: California Department of Parks and Recreation

Helen Corson Hovenden

Thomas Hovenden
Drawing
c. 1880-95
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art
Portrait of Mrs. H.

Portrait of Mrs. H.

Gari Melchers
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Fraad, Jr.
Thomas Henry Carter

Thomas Henry Carter

Cornelius Haly Hankins
Painting
1861-99
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Woman holding a Rose

William H. Crane
Painting
c. 1885
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
William G. Linen

William G. Linen

Oscar Pierre Havens
Photograph
c. 1891
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Sally Adler with heartfelt gratitude to Emma Joy Linen Dana, George L. Linen’s great-granddaughter, and her four devoted sons, Richard, John, Andrew, and Gordon

The Pink Dress

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Painting
c. 1894
Owner: Dallas Museum of Art

Mary Thayer

Abbott Handerson Thayer
Painting
c. 1889
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wiiliam Frederick Hewer

John Singer Sargent
Painting
c. 1893
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Mary Martin Warriner Weaver

E. Reynolds
Painting
c. 1888
Owner: Margaret Virginia Weaver Williams

Mother and Child

Julian Alden Weir
Drawing
1884-92
Owner: Private Collection
John R. Linen

John R. Linen

Hall & Co.
Photograph
c. 1889
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Sally Adler with heartfelt gratitude to Emma Joy Linen Dana, George L. Linen’s great-granddaughter, and her four devoted sons, Richard, John, Andrew, and Gordon

Anna Maria Cohen Minis

Rita V.
Painting
c. 1881-91
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith

T. B. Latchmore
Photograph
c. 1885
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

William Booth Taliaferro

William Ludwell Sheppard
Painting
1899
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Judge Warren Cowan

William Bienville Rhodes
Painting
c. 1892
Owner: Old Court House Museum

In the Orchard

John Singer Sargent
Drawing
c. 1886
Owner: Private Collection

George De Benneville Keim, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery

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