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Washington Allston 1841 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
The Misses Case about 1864 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Susan Rivington Stuyvesant (Mrs. Gerard Stuyvesant) 1858 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Sec. William A. Richardson 1880 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Previously Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary George S. Boutwell, President Grant promoted William A. Richardson (1821 - 1896) to Secretary when Boutwell resigned. The postwar economy had expanded so quickly that commercial banks became nervous and began calling in their loans. As a result, in the summer of 1873 the money supply... | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Sec. Oliver Wolcott, Jr. 1880 U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. | Beginning in 1789, Oliver Wolcott Jr. (b.1760 - 1833) played an important role in the organization of the nascent Treasury Department. First, as Auditor, he established its clerical forms and methods, and two years later, as Comptroller, he was instrumental in establishing the branches of Secretary Alexander Hamilton's First Bank of the United States. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Mrs. Stephen Jones Bowles (Elizabeth Thorndike) 1848 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. George Henry Loring (Amalia Heredia) 1849 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Francis Schroeder (Caroline Seaton) ca. 1849 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Caroline Seaton Schroeder was the daughter of William Seaton, the owner of the newspaper the National Intelligencer, mayor of Washington, D.C., and a regent of the Smithsonian. The pencil outline of Mrs. Schroeders dress makes her portrait appear unfinished, as the lower portion of her dress is without color. Richard Morell Staigg used a similar... | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Mrs. Christopher Grant Perry (Frances Sargeant) ca. 1840 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Mrs. Charles Thurston (Rachel Hall Pitman) ca. 1840 Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC | Unrated | Anonymous |
- Richard Morrell Staigg