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Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1865-1965
Owner: Valentine Museum
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1880-1960
Owner: Harvard University/ Houghton Library

Richard Strauss

Charles Andrew Hafner
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

Hands of Lucrezia Bori

Maryla Lednicka
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

Lillian Nordica as Brunhilda

Samuel Burtis Baker
Painting
20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

John Marshall Harlan, Sr.

Phillip Ratner
Drawing
c. 1963
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States

John W. McLane

Moses Billings
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Erie Historical Museum and Planetarium

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Lewis E. Thompson
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Clarence Morgan

William James
Painting
20th century
Owner: Phillips Academy

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Phillip Ratner
Drawing
c. 1963
Owner: Supreme Court of the United States
Robert Edward Lee

Robert Edward Lee

David Silvette
Painting
1961
Owner: Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home

Lucretia Bori as Statuette of Violetta

Rosario Murabito
Sculpture
20th century
Owner: Metropolitan Opera Association

John Greenleaf Whittier

J. Giles
Painting
c. 1884-1960
Owner: University of Virginia

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Thomas Hudson Jones
Sculpture
1964
Owner: National Academy of Design
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1865-1965
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

William Tecumseh Sherman

James Reid Lambdin
Painting
c. 1968
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia

Portrait of Martha Reed

Leon Shulman Gaspard
Drawing
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Kit Carson Historic Museums - Ernest Blumenschein House
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

Leonard Baskin
Print
1969
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Alan M. Fern

Harriette Lake

James Montgomery Flagg
Drawing
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Illustration House, Inc.

Carl Sadakichi Hartmann

Ejnar Hansen
Painting
late 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: Laguna Art Museum

Ole Peter Hansen Balling

Ole Peter Hansen Balling
Painting
late 1960s
Owner: Private collection

Anna Hyatt Huntington and Alfred Goldsborough Mayor

Harriet Randolph Hyatt Mayor
Sculpture
before 1960
Owner: Private Collection

Ulysses S. Grant

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: Colorado History Museum

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