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Alexander Macomb

Alexander Macomb

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Print
1809
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
John Winterberry

John Winterberry

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Print
1805
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Major Anthony Toomer

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: Private collection

Lewis Johnson Costigan

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-95
Owner: New-York Historical Society

George Clinton

Ezra Ames
Painting
1805-12
Owner: City of Albany, New York

James Oglethorpe aide Prince Eugene

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: University of Georgia

Miniature of General Macpherson

Benjamin Trott
Painting
c. 1808
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

William Spaulding, Jr.

Ezra Ames
Painting
1800-1900

Captain James Gilmore

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Horatio Gates

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-50
Owner: Chicago History Museum
Anne Louis De Tousard

Anne Louis De Tousard

Edward Greene Malbone
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Marquis de Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania

John Neilson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-15
Owner: Rutgers University

Nathaniel Coffin

William Jennys
Painting
c. 1807
Owner: Smith College Museum of Art

Major General James Wilkinson

John Wesley Jarvis
Painting
c. 1813
Owner: Historic New Orleans Collection
Hugh McCall

Hugh McCall

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1812
Owner: Georgia Historical Society
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: Lafayette College
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Alexander Anderson
Print
c. 1801
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
John Davenport

John Davenport

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Print
1806
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
William Moultrie

William Moultrie

Charles Fraser
Drawing
1802
Owner: Walters Art Museum

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1775-1800
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Richard Varick

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1800-10
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1800-83
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Samuel Wyllys Possibly

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

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