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Asa Gray

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
late 19th century
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Robert E. Lee

Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Sculpture
c. 1886
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

William Sprague

Nicholas Richard Brewer
Painting
1899
Owner: State of Rhode Island
William McKinley

William McKinley

August Benziger
Painting
1897
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Miss Marieli Benziger
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Franklin Simmons
Sculpture
1894
Owner: Portland Museum of Art
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

James M. Kershaw
Sculpture
c. 1885
Owner: Chicago History Museum

William Polk Hardeman

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
1893
Owner: Elisabet Ney Museum
Nathaniel Harrison Harris

Nathaniel Harrison Harris

Bessie A. Catlin
Painting
1898
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
George Washington

George Washington

Jean Aubery
Painting
c. 1875-93
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz

Winifred Holt
Sculpture
c. 1896-1906
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Edward Collins Knight

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1872-92
Owner: Union League of Philadelphia
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
1899
Owner: Kentucky Museum
Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Achille Perelli
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: New Orleans Museum of Art

Theodore Robinson

Theodore Robinson
Painting
c. 1884-87
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ulysses S. Grant

John Wood Dodge
Painting
1891
Owner: Bortman-Larus Collection
John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders

John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders

Samuel Hoffman
Painting
1864-99
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Thomas Jonathan Jackson

Thomas Jonathan Jackson

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1880-90
Owner: Valentine Museum
Waller Tazewell Patton

Waller Tazewell Patton

Mary R. Gilmer
Painting
c. 1901
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Thomas McCarthy

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1860
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

Temperance Orwig Butler

Eugene Alonzo Poole
Painting
c. 1875-95
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art
Jubal Anderson Early

Jubal Anderson Early

John P. Walker
Painting
1898
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Two Sketches: A Profile (Unidentified Woman) and Knitting Hands

Enoch Wood Perry
Drawing
1870-90
Owner: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

Portrait of J.E.B. Stuart

John Adams Elder
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Commonwealth Club

Mary Backus Lever

J. S. Campeon
Painting
c. 1870-90
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

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