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Major Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

George Cooke
Painting
before 1849
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Colonel Sessums and Colonel James Spencer Bailey

Silhouette
c. 1843-57
Owner: Sally Stone Trotter

George Washington (Porthole type)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1846
Owner: Schwarz Gallery

Thomas Woodfin Keesee

W. B. Cooper
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Charlotte Capers

Marquis de Chastellux

Camille Joseph Etienne Roqueplan
Painting
1842
Owner: Musée National du Château de Versailles

Gen. William Lindsay Brandon

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

Davy Crockett

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

George Washington Whistler

Chester Harding
Painting
c. 1840-42
Owner: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Portrait of George Washington

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

Cast of Face from Portrait of George Washington by Houdon

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

Nathanael Greene

George Peter Alexander Healy
Painting
1846-47
Owner: Musée National du Château de Versailles

The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis

Junius Brutus Stearns
Painting
1849
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

John C. Breckinridge

John R. Johnston
Painting
before 1895
Owner: UNLOCATED

Roswell Farnham ?

Unidentified Artist
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Ferdinand Pettrich
Sculpture
c. 1840-41
George Washington

George Washington

Peale's Museum Silhouette
Silhouette
early 19th century
Owner: Charles J. Reeder

George Washington

Anson Dickinson
Painting
1848
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum
John Dominic Bowling

John Dominic Bowling

Walter Gould
Painting
1846
Owner: Private collection

Battle of Monmouth

George Washington Parke Custis
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Arlington House, Robert E. Lee Memorial, National Park Service

George Washington (Porthole)

Rembrandt Peale
Painting
c. 1850
Owner: Dallas Museum of Art

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1850

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1840
Owner: Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art

Robert E. Lee

Robert Walter Weir
Painting
1846-1848
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 19th century
Owner: UNLOCATED

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