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John Singleton Mosby

Louis Mathieu Didier Guillaume
Painting
mid-late 19th century
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

David Benjamin Bechtel
Painting
1891
Owner: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Philadelphia
Is it Only a Shadow?

Is it Only a Shadow?

Grant E. Hamilton
Print
published October 29, 1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
William McKinley

William McKinley

Emily Drayton Taylor
Painting
1899
Owner: The White House
William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman

Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Sculpture
1891?
Owner: Princeton University
Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Pach Brothers Studio
Photograph
c. 1898
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Joanna Sturm
Robertson Taylor

Robertson Taylor

Cornelius Haly Hankins
Painting
1897
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Robert E. Lee

Sir Moses Jacob Ezekiel
Sculpture
c. 1886
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

William Sprague

Nicholas Richard Brewer
Painting
1899
Owner: State of Rhode Island
William McKinley

William McKinley

August Benziger
Painting
1897
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Miss Marieli Benziger
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

Franklin Simmons
Sculpture
1894
Owner: Portland Museum of Art
Ulysses Simpson Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant

James M. Kershaw
Sculpture
c. 1885
Owner: Chicago History Museum

William Polk Hardeman

Elisabet Ney
Sculpture
1893
Owner: Elisabet Ney Museum
George Washington

George Washington

William Wetmore Story
Sculpture
mid-late 19th century
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Nathaniel Harrison Harris

Nathaniel Harrison Harris

Bessie A. Catlin
Painting
1898
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture
George Washington

George Washington

Jean Aubery
Painting
c. 1875-93
Owner: Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
Carl Schurz

Carl Schurz

Winifred Holt
Sculpture
c. 1896-1906
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Fredricks Knickerbocker Studio
Photograph
c. 1888
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington (Athenaeum type)

Frost
Painting
19th century

Portrait of Washington at Trenton

Unidentified Artist
Painting
19th century
Owner: Cowan's Historic Americana Auctions
John Cabell Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge

Eliphalet Frazer Andrews
Painting
1899
Owner: Kentucky Museum
Col W. F. Cody

Col W. F. Cody

Anton Friedrich Scholl
Sculpture
1891
Owner: Whitney Western Art Museum

George Washington (Lansdowne type)

Franklin R. Street
Painting
before 1894
Owner: Private Collection
Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Achille Perelli
Sculpture
mid 19th century
Owner: New Orleans Museum of Art

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