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Results for "George Washington"8 records

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George Washington at Princeton by Charles Willson Peale, The Cleveland Museum of Art

George Washington at Princeton

Charles Willson Peale (d. 1827)

c. 1779 · Painting, oil on canvas

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George Washington by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

George Washington

Unrecorded maker

c. 1790s · Painting, oil on canvas

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Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason by Gilbert Stuart, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Elizabeth Beltzhoover Mason

Gilbert Stuart (d. 1828)

c. 1803–5 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Portrait of George Washington by William Russell Birch, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of George Washington

William Russell Birch (d. 1834)

c. 1790s · Portrait Miniature, enamel

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Senator George Ellis Pugh of Ohio by Whitehurst Studio, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Senator George Ellis Pugh of Ohio

Whitehurst Studio

c.1857 · Photograph, salted paper print from wet collodion negative

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Portrait of Georges Arnold Fitzwilliam by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Georges Arnold Fitzwilliam

Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (d. 1852)

c. 1790–1852 · Drawing, Black and white chalk on buff paper with pink wash in original frame

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George Washington by Edward Savage, The Cleveland Museum of Art

George Washington

Edward Savage (d. 1817)

1793 · Print, mezzotint with line engraving

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Head of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of George Washington

Rembrandt Peale (d. 1860)

1856 · Print, lithograph

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