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Ephraim Whitaker

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1805
Owner: Private collection

John Harrisson

Frederick W. Mayhew
Painting
c. 1823
Owner: National Gallery of Art

The Thorndike-Forbes Portrait of George Washington

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Private Collection

Timothy Pickering

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Private Collection

Portrait of George Washington

Pavel Petrovitch Svin'in
Painting
c. 1811-13
Owner: State Russian Museum

Mantle Clock (George Washington)

Jean Baptiste Dubuc
Decorative Arts
1806-17
Owner: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

George Washington

Léon Cogniet
Painting
19th century

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Arkell Museum at Canajoharie
General William Wadsworth

General William Wadsworth

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1812
Owner: William Austin Wadsworth II

Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

George Cooke
Painting
before 1849
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

George Washington

Antonio Canova
Sculpture
1818
Owner: Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova

James Monroe commemorative jug

Leeds Pottery
Decorative Arts
c. 1820
Owner: James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

Henry Knox

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: UNLOCATED
Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Robert Field
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection

Alexander Hamilton

Ezra Ames
Painting
1810
Owner: Union College, Schenectady, New York

George Washington

Jane Stuart
Painting
19th century

George Washington Clock

Honore Pons
Decorative Arts
c. 1820
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

George Washington

Sculpture
c. 1816
Owner: City of Baltimore

James Monroe

Goodman & Piggot
Print
1818
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Primo Pensiero for George Washington

Antonio Canova
Sculpture
1817
Owner: Museo di Roma

Passage of the Delaware

Thomas Sully
Drawing
c. 1819

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Masonic Lodge

Obverse and Reverse of a Medal in Honor of George Washington

Pavel Petrovitch Svin'in
Painting
c. 1811-13
Owner: State Russian Museum

Winfield Scott

Thomas Sully
Painting
1814
Owner: Private collection

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