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Alpheus Starkey Williams

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1847-57
Owner: Detroit Historical Museum

Mrs. Charles Hamlin / Huibertje Lansing Pruyn ?

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1880
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Studies of Mr. W. Amory and Thomas A. Scott

Daniel Huntington
Drawing
1881
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

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
John A. Dix

John A. Dix

Mathew Brady Studio
Photographic Negative
1861
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Frederick Hill Meserve Collection
John White Stevenson

John White Stevenson

W. V. Johann
Painting
c. 1875-85
Owner: Kentucky Historical Society

Standing Man

William Henry Philip
Drawing
c. 1850-82
Owner: American University

Mrs. Frederick J. Kingsbury, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
1888
Owner: Mattatuck Museum of the Mattatuck Historical Society
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

McClees & Vannerson
Photograph
c. 1859
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries; gift of Roger F. Shultis, 1986

Margaret Annette Ward Dunsmore

John Ward Dunsmore
Painting
1881
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Unidentified Woman

Abbott Handerson Thayer
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: Denver Art Museum

Ronald Vickers

John Singer Sargent
Painting
c. 1882-84
Owner: Private Collection

Ethel Page as Undine

Cecilia Beaux
Painting
1885
Owner: Private collection
Alice Sistare Larkin Toulmin

Alice Sistare Larkin Toulmin

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

Blue Medicine

Rosa Bonheur
Drawing
after 1876

Sky-se-ro-ka

Rosa Bonheur
Drawing
after 1876

Miss Freed

Daniel Huntington
Drawing
1887
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
William Hugh Young

William Hugh Young

Ellis Meyer Silvette
Painting
1900-40
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Sterling Price

Sterling Price

Daniel T. Cowell
Photograph
1862
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Robert Edwin Peary

Robert Edwin Peary

Antonio Cassinelli
Photograph
1884-85
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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    • Photographs  1231
    • Sculpture  1032
    • Drawings  917
    • Prints  590
    • Exterior views  471
    • Miniatures  188
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