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Andy Warhol
Print
1986
Owner: Revolver Gallery of Beverly Hills

Clark Churchill

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: The Arizona Museum

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
1871
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
John Newland Maffitt

John Newland Maffitt

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mary Hamilton Thorndike Fenno

Katherine Arthur Behenna
Painting
c. 1890
Owner: New-York Historical Society

William Henry Hunt

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
1882
Owner: Naval Historical Center
Lydia Thompson

Lydia Thompson

José María Mora
Photograph
c. 1892
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Francis A. DiMauro

Dennis Dozier Ferebee

Lewis Towson Voigt
Painting
c. 1850

Anna Moody Carter

George Sutton Upp
Painting
1889
Owner: Private collection

Samuel H. Tagart

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Boy in Blue

James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Painting
c. 1885
Owner: Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Lotus Lilies

Charles Courtney Curran
Painting
1888
Owner: Terra Foundation for American Art

Thomas Edward Greenfield Ransom

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1861-85
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Butler Anderson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1870-80
Owner: Tennessee State Museum
Allen

Allen

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
date unknown
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Study of Head of Man with Glasses on Forehead

Frederick William MacMonnies
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elizabeth Hawley De Groot

Elizabeth King Hawley De Groot
Drawing
c. 1878
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Caroline Chrysler Lee

Caroline Chrysler Lee

John Horsburgh
Painting
1889
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert Lee Morris, Jr. and Frances Mathews Morris

Study of a Standing Male Nude

Frederick William MacMonnies
Drawing
1885
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unidentified Man

Frank Duveneck
Painting
c. 1879
Owner: Hyde Collection

Nude Model with Blue and Red Skirt

Robert Henri
Drawing
n.d.a.
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Edmund Alexander De Schweinitz, Sr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1880-87
Owner: Moravian Historical Society
Eunice Bullard Beecher

Eunice Bullard Beecher

George Gardner Rockwood
Photograph
c. 1885
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Paul Katz

The Sisters

Abbott Handerson Thayer
Painting
1884
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

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