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James McClurg

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
1901
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Artemas Ward

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
1909
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Auguste De La Motte

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
c. 1903
Owner: State Museum of Pennsylvania
George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.

George Lewis Gillespie, Jr.

Robert Hinckley
Painting
1907
Owner: U.S. Military Academy

John Stark

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
1906
Owner: Independence National Historical Park
Philip Henry Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan

John Quincy Adams Ward
Sculpture
c. 1900-10
Owner: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Theodore Clement Steele
Painting
1901
Owner: Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site

Anthony Walton White

Albert Rosenthal
Drawing
c. 1907
Adna Romanza Chaffee

Adna Romanza Chaffee

Pirie MacDonald
Photograph
1905
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Marie Martin
James Edward Oglethorpe

James Edward Oglethorpe

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Oglethorpe University

Edward Aylesworth Perry

John P. Walker
Painting
1900
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Alessandro O'Reilly

Andres Molinary
Painting
c. 1910
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Thomas Smith

William Ludwell Sheppard
Painting
1861-1900
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

General Fremont at Sonoma 1846

Julius Ludovici
Painting
c. 1870-1906
Owner: UNLOCATED

Alexander McDougall

Edgar Brown Smith
Painting
c. 1911

Charles Devens

Daniel Chester French
Sculpture
1904
Owner: Chesterwood
Richard Griffith

Richard Griffith

Emma Morehead Whitfield
Painting
1905
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

David Dawson Mitchell

Charles Chambers
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

John Brown Gordon

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1898
Owner: Museum of the Confederacy

Andrew Atkinson Humphreys

Julius Augustus Beck
Painting
c. 1865-1906
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Walter Stewart

Albert Rosenthal
Painting
1907
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Peyton Conway March

Francis Davis Millet
Painting
1908?
Owner: U.S. Military Academy
James Alexander Walker

James Alexander Walker

John P. Walker
Painting
1902
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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