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The Funeral of General Fraser, who was shot after the Action at Saratoga, October 7th, 1777

John Graham
Painting
c. 1785

James Meredith with James McShane and John Doar

Charles Moore
Photograph
October 1, 1962
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Timothy Pickering

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
1814
Owner: Private collection
John Ford

John Ford

Roman Freulich
Photograph
c. 1944
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Norman and Joan Abramson

Dr. Richard Wilmot Hall

Gennaro Persico
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Washington

Ferdinand Pettrich
Sculpture
c. 1840-41

General George Washington on His Charger

Emma E. Martin
Painting
mid 19th century
Owner: Peter Tillou Collection

John Bacon Pearce

Thomas Cromwell Corner
Painting
c. 1900
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

David Howe

Samuel Wallin
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
William Austin Wadsworth, Herbert Wadsworth, and Livingston Wadsworth

William Austin Wadsworth, Herbert Wadsworth, and Livingston Wadsworth

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg
Painting
1863
Owner: William Austin Wadsworth II
General Colin Powell

General Colin Powell

Ronald N. Sherr
Painting
2012
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; supported by a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and by the Marc Pachter Commissioning Fund

Edward Butler

Thomas Nast
Drawing
late 19th century
Owner: Private collection

George Washington

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1788-90
Owner: Private collection

Governor Gabriel Slaughter

Ferdinand Graham Walker
Painting
c. 1908
Owner: Kentucky Historical Society

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 20th-late 20th century
Owner: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library-Museum
George Watson

George Watson

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1768
Owner: Private Collection

Robert Edward Lee

Thomas B. Welch
Painting
Owner: Private Collection

Thomas Carter

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 17th century
Owner: [Destroyed]

John George Archer, M.B.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: John Erwin Archer

Signing of the First Treaty of Peace with Great Britain

Constantino Brumidi
Painting
c. 1874
Owner: U.S. Senate
Myron Holley Clark

Myron Holley Clark

Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Painting
1866
Owner: Public Design Commission of the City of New York

John Bacon Pearce

Thomas C. Corner
Painting
c. 1830-40
Owner: Private Collection

Vincent Sheean as a Mandarin Colonel

Leon Gerardo Luis Quintanilla
Painting
mid 20th century
Owner: Private Collection

Pierce Mason Butler

William Harrison Scarborough
Painting
1853
Owner: South Carolina State Museum

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