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George Washington

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
after 1785
Owner: National Museum, Stockholm

Washington before Yorktown

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
1823

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
after 1794
Owner: University of Kentucky Art Museum

Mantel Clock (George Washington)

Louis Mallet
Decorative Arts
c. 1816
Owner: The White House

George Washington

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
after 1795

George Washington

Antonio Canova
Sculpture
c. 1817-20
Owner: Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova

George Washington (Munro-Lenox type)

Cornelius T. Hinckley
Painting
c. 1825-28
Owner: Washington's Headquarters
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Painting
c. 1828-38
Owner: Historic Deerfield
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Thomas Harrison

Zedekiah Belknap
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Robert Archer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1814-24

General Edmund Pendleton Gaines

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1816
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Andrew Jackson

Matthew Harris Jouett
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

John Neilson

James Hamilton Shegogue
Painting
c. 1825-70
Owner: State House Fine Arts Collection

William Jennings Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: Private Collection
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Ary Scheffer
Painting
1825?
Owner: Chicago History Museum

Benjamin Tallmadge

Ezra Ames
Painting
c. 1820-26
Owner: Litchfield Historical Society and Museum

Marquis De Lafayette

Francois Augustin Caunois
Medal
1824
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joseph O. V. S. Archambault

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1821-41
Owner: Mercer Museum of the Bucks County Historical Society
William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-30
Owner: Indiana Historical Society

Unfinished Portrait of General Dearborn

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private collection
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Bass Otis
Painting
c. 1824-61
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

General Reinhard Otto Friedrich August von Schöler from the Middleton Watercolor Album

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1820-34
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Masonic Temple, Grand Lodge F. & A. M. of Pennsylvania

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