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Watson Van Benthuysen II and Thomas Van Benthuysen

Aramenta Dianthe Vail
Painting
c. 1837
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Unknown Owner

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Medal
c. 1825
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

George Washington (Athenaeum Type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1830s?
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1800-1830
Owner: Private Collection

James Monroe

John Paradise
Painting
1830
Owner: New York Public Library

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Private collection
Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster

Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
early 19th-mid 19th century
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Encounter between a Corncracker and an Eelskin

Unidentified Artist
Print
1837
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Studies, with Washington's Head

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze
Drawing
1831-1868
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henry Knox

Henry Knox

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th-early 20th century
Owner: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30

George Catlin
Painting
1830
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Gen. William Lindsay Brandon

Theodore Sydney Moise
Painting
c. 1842
Owner: Mrs. William Wall Brandon

Portrait of George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Portland Art Museum

Portrait of George Washington

Horatio Greenough
Sculpture
c. 1828-30
Owner: Daniel Wolf Owner: Mathew Wolf

Davy Crockett

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1835
Owner: University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: Private collection

Portrait of George Washington

Rembrandt Peale
Drawing
c. 1838
Owner: Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

Colonel Thomas Taylor and a Grandchild

James Deveaux
Painting
c. 1830
Owner: Private collection

Cast of Face from Portrait of George Washington by Houdon

Hiram Powers
Sculpture
c. 1838-44
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

Battle of Bexar--Heroism of Colonel Crockett

Unidentified Artist
Print
1837
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
early 19th century

James Monroe

Louis Lemet
Print
1830
Owner: James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

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