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Rene Auguste Chouteau

Rene Auguste Chouteau

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1815-20
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1795-1822
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
James Monroe

James Monroe

Thomas Sully
Painting
c. 1829
Owner: U.S. Department of State
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private Collection
George Washington (Porthole type)

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
after 1823
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum

Maunsel White

John Vanderlyn
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Timothy Pickering

James Frothingham
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Henry Rice

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

Samuel P. Howes
Painting
c. 1829-60
Owner: City of Lowell

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1821
Owner: National Gallery of Art
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1823
Owner: Morristown National Historic Park, National Park Service

Thomas Taylor

James Deveaux
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Dr. Edmund Taylor
Moses Seymour

Moses Seymour

Anson Dickinson
Painting
December 3, 1825
Owner: Litchfield Historical Society and Museum
George Washington

George Washington

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

James Monroe

Chester Harding
Painting
1829

Henry Knox

Elkanah Tisdale
Painting
c. 1825-35
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1796-1820
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
James Monroe

James Monroe

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
1819-20
Owner: Charleston City Hall

Matthew Clarkson

Samuel Lovett Waldo
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Clermont State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Samuel Smith

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1817
Owner: Maryland Historical Society
George Washington

George Washington

Asher Brown Durand
Painting
c. 1826
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Gideon Fairman

Thomas Sully
Painting
1824?
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
George Washington (Athenaeum type)

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Jane Stuart
Painting
c. 1830-80
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Meriwether Lewis Clark

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1827
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

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