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Thomas Hart Benton

Sarah Miriam Peale
Painting
c. 1842
Owner: Missouri Historical Society

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840-50
Owner: Dartmouth College

Bernard Peyton

William Garl Browne Jr.
Painting
c. 1846-56
Owner: Virginia Military Institute
George Washington

George Washington

Ferdinand Pettrich
Sculpture
1841
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
William Robertson

William Robertson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1846
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Sculpture
1844
Owner: Longfellow National Historic Site
George Washington

George Washington

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company
Silhouette
1844
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

Armistead Lindsay Long

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1845-91
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Stephen Van Rensselaer

Chester Harding
Drawing
c. 1830-40
Owner: Deerfield Academy
George Washington

George Washington

James Berry
Painting
1840
Owner: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
George Washington and His Dog

George Washington and His Dog

Alexandre Carzain
Painting
c. 1850-1909
Owner: Private Collection
George Washington Whistler and Lady Whistler Haden

George Washington Whistler and Lady Whistler Haden

Auguste Edouart
Silhouette
1842
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

Francis D'Avignon
Painting
c. 1847
Owner: Private collection
General Winfield Scott

General Winfield Scott

Charles Saint-Priest
Painting
c. 1845
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

General George Washington at the Battle of Trenton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1795-c. 1840
Owner: Denver Art Museum

James Ward

Liberato Cardella
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum
Where's My Thunder

Where's My Thunder

David Claypoole Johnston
Print
c. 1850
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Thomas Hart Benton

George Caleb Bingham
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Missouri Historical Society
Winifield Scott

Winifield Scott

Mathew Brady Studio
Photograph
c. 1849
Owner: Library of Congress
George Washington

George Washington

Clark Mills
Sculpture
1848

George Washington

William P. Babcock
Painting
1846-83
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Gallaher

Unidentified Artist
Photograph
c. 1845
Owner: Mary G. Leigh
George Washington

George Washington

Horatio Greenough
Sculpture
1840
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Agrippa Hull

Agrippa Hull

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1848
Owner: Stockbridge Library Association

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