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Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton

Elizabeth Emmet
Painting
c. 1815
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Benjamin West

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painting
c. 1820-21
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum

Benjamin West

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Dartmouth College

Benjamin West

Edward F. Peticolas
Drawing
c. 1816
Owner: Valentine Museum
Benjamin West

Benjamin West

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Painting
c. 1810-16
Owner: National Academy of Design
Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin

Benjamin West, Frank Wilkin and Henry Wilkin

Frank William Wilkin
Painting
c. 1820
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Mabel Wiles, 1948

Benjamin West

Sir Thomas Lawrence
Painting
c. 1820
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Benjamin West

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1825-1940
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Benjamin West

James Green
Painting
1818
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman and Girl at a Writing Desk

Benjamin West
Drawing
c. 1800-20
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

Benjamin West

Washington Allston
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Addison Gallery of American Art
Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1818
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Charles Willson Peale

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1815 after 1767 original
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Bessie Womer

Benjamin West

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-1820
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin West

Benjamin West

William Behnes
Sculpture
1820
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Benjamin West

James Green
Painting
c. 1792-1820
Owner: Delaware Art Museum

Benjamin West

Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey
Sculpture
c. 1831
Owner: Pennsylvania Hospital

Benjamin West

John Lane
Painting
c. 1810-20
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Benjamin West

Benjamin West

Charles Etienne Pierre Motte
Print
1827
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Milton and Ingrid Rose

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1816
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Benjamin West

Charles Muss
Drawing
c. 1811-24
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Auto Portrait

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1800-20
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

Portrait of a Woman

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1800-20
Owner: de Young Museum
Mrs. Hamilton

Mrs. Hamilton

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1758-1820
Owner: Franklin and Marshall College

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