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John Adams

John Adams

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Adams National Historical Park

Dr. John Collins Warren

James Frothingham
Painting
c. 1846
Owner: Private collection
Dolley Madison

Dolley Madison

Aline Alaux
Painting
mid 19th-mid 20th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

William Matthew Prior
Painting
c. 1860
Owner: de Young Museum

George Washington

William Matthew Prior
Painting
mid 19th-late 19th century
Owner: New-York Historical Society

George Washington (Vaughan type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Haverhill Historical Society
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

William Matthew Prior
Painting
c. 1860s
Owner: American Folk Art Museum

Washington Sitting for His Portrait to Gilbert Stuart

Karl Heinrich Schmolze
Painting
1858
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Gilbert Stuart

Salathiel Ellis
Sculpture
c. 1848
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Gilbert Stuart's Portrait of George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
1850-59
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Robert R. Livingston

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1847-50
Owner: Private collection
George Washington

George Washington

Southworth & Hawes
Photograph
c. 1851
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Joan Murray. Conservation made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian's Collections Care and Preservation Fund

John Gore

Henry Greenough
Painting
1844
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Marchioness d'Yrujo

Unidentified Artist
Print
1855
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Snuff Box Owned by Gilbert Stuart

Decorative Arts
1850
Owner: Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent
George Washington

George Washington

William Matthew Prior
Painting
c. 1862
Owner: New Hampshire Historical Society
George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

Jane Stuart
Painting
1854
Owner: George Washington University
James Madison

James Madison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1805-50
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Washington at Dorchester Heights

Washington at Dorchester Heights

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1861
Owner: State of Rhode Island
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
George Washington (Lansdowne Type)

George Washington (Lansdowne Type)

James Warrell
Painting
c. 1810-54
Owner: City of Richmond
George Washington

George Washington

John Haslem
Painting
1852
Owner: U.S. Department of State

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