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Alexander Hamilton

Edward Savage
Painting
Before 1804
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington

Ellen Wallace Sharples
Painting
1786

Alexander Hamilton

John Trumbull
Painting
1806
Owner: UNLOCATED

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
1796-1803

George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
c. 1776-1801
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

George Washington Is My Name

Unidentified Artist
Painting
First quarter 19th century
Owner: National Gallery of Art
George Washington

George Washington

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1807-68
Owner: Principia College

George Washington

Drawing
1800
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Portrait of George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century

The Hartford Convention or Leap No Leap

William Charles
Print
c. 1814
Owner: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

Marinus Willet

John Trumbull
Painting
1808
Owner: Public Design Commission of the City of New York

George Washington (Vaughan type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
1795-1800
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

John Ramage
Painting
c. 1800
Owner: North Carolina Museum of Art

George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
dated 1778 but probably made 1800
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

General Francis Marion Inviting A British Officer to Share His Meal or The Swamp Fox

John Blake White
Painting
c. 1810
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

George Washington (Vaughan type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1795
Owner: UNLOCATED
Jacint Laval

Jacint Laval

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

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1796
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the McNeil Americana Collection; conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Thomas Sully
Drawing
19th century

William Augustus Bowles

Thomas Hardy
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1804
Owner: Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc.

George Washington (Vaughan type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private Collection
George Washington

George Washington

R. A. Wood
Sculpture
c. 1755-1800
Owner: Chicago History Museum

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