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The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Lewis Cass

The National Plumbeotype Gallery - Lewis Cass

John Plumbe
Print
1847
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: James K. Polk Memorial Association
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Print
c. 1843
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Dr. Fred W. Hicks, III

Armestead Terrell Townes

A. G. Poindexter
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Gloria Thames Bottom
General Andrew Jackson

General Andrew Jackson

John Wood Dodge
Painting
1842-43
Owner: Art Institute of Chicago

Asher Phillips

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835-40
Owner: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania

William Henry Harrison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art

Harrison Gray Otis

Shobal Vail Clevenger
Sculpture
c. 1830-40
Owner: Historic New England
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

George Augustus Baker Jr.
Painting
1844
Owner: Walters Art Museum

Charles Lynde Frothingham

Charles Osgood
Painting
1849?
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Captain Allen A. Rabineau

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1835
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Bernardo de Galvez

Aline Alaux
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: New-York Historical Society

General John Bullene

Unidentified Artist
Painting
October 1848
Owner: Private Collection

Corbin Braxton

William James Hubard
Painting
c. 1845-53
Owner: Virginia Military Institute
General Alexander Macomb

General Alexander Macomb

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1840
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.

Col. William Christy

Phineas Staunton
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: UNLOCATED

William Berry Prince, Jr.

Thomas Cantwell Healy
Painting
c. 1854
Owner: Mrs. F. M. Southworth Jr.
John Charles Fremont

John Charles Fremont

J. H. Bufford Lithography Company
Print
c. 1854-64
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

Painting
c. 1839-40
Owner: The White House
Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815-45
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Edward Anthony & Co.
Photograph
1845
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
George Washington (Porthole type)

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1853
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of an anonymous donor
William Robertson

William Robertson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1846
Owner: Jasper Newton Dorsey
David Crockett

David Crockett

Asher Brown Durand
Print
c. 1835
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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