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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | Young Woodchopper by George Whiting Flagg ca. 1835 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Flagg, George Whiting | |
 | Witch Hill (Salem Martyr) by Thomas S. Noble 1869 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Noble, Thomas S. | |
 | William Walton Woolsey by William Dunlap ca. 1812 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Dunlap, William | |
 | William Sidney Mount by Francis B. Carpenter 1851 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Carpenter, Francis B. | |
 | William Robertson by Archibald Robertson ca. 1800 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Robertson, Archibald | |
 | William R. Symons by James Van Dyck ca. 1830-35 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Van Dyck, James |  The subject is believed to be William R. Symons of Savannah, Georgia, who married Sarah Ann Burr (d. 1814) of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the 1830s. This miniature descended to their only son, Frederick W. Symons, and remained in the family until acquired by the Society in 1957 from Mrs. Lillian Sturtevant Pingry, the subject's great-granddaughter. |
 | William M. S. Doyle by William M. S. Doyle 1803 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Doyle, William M. S. | |
 | William Leete Stone, Sr. by Nathaniel Rogers ca. 1825-1830 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Rogers, Nathaniel | The subject was born in New Paltz, New York, the son of the Rev. William and Tamson (Graves) Stone. From 1821 to 1844 he was one of the owners of the New York "Commercial Advertiser," and used that position to advance several causes in which he took a special interest, among them the Federalist party, the Erie Canal, and congressional emancipation of... |
 | William Irvine by Robert Edge Pine oil on canvas New York Historical Society New York, NY | Pine, Robert Edge | Irvine was a delegate to the Continental Congress which met in New York in 1786-88. While there his portrait was painted by Robert Edge Pine, who had come to America from England in 1784. Lambdin, one of the popular portraitists of Philadelphia between ca. 1840 and 1870, based his portrait of Irvine on Pine's late eighteenth-century work. Irvine is... |
 | William Evans Burton by Henry Peters Gray ca. 1850-1855 New York Historical Society New York, NY | Gray, Henry Peters | A native of London, William Evans Burton first traveled to the U.S. in 1834 to perform as an actor at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. In 1848 he established himself in New York as a manager, and at a theater in Chambers Street gained distinction for his dramatic productions. In 1856 he opened the Metropolitan Theatre, which eventually became... |
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