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Jack-o-pa (The Six)

by Charles Bird King

1862
oil on wood
17 3/4 x 14 1/8 in. (45.2 x 36.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

King, Charles Bird 
Jagged Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

watercolor
no dimensions available

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Fuertes, Louis Agassiz 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

by Alice Pike Barney

1898
Pastel on paperboard
19 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. (49.0 x 49.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Barney, Alice Pike 
James Buchanan

by Jacob Eichholtz

1834
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28 1/4 in. (91.7 x 71.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Eichholtz, Jacob 
James Buchanan

by John Henry Brown

ca. 1865
watercolor on ivory
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (14.0 x 10.8 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Brown, John Henrynotes
John Henry Brown chose to paint this miniature from a daguerreotype he made of United States president James Buchanan (1791-1868), and took great satisfaction in the likeness. James Buchanan Henry, the presidents nephew and ward, later wrote a biography of his uncle, commenting that The best likeness of him is a miniature portrait on ivory, by Brown...
James Buchanan Johnston

by Harper Pennington

1881
oil on fabric: canvas mounted on fiberboard
29 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (75.5 x 47.6 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Pennington, Harper 
James Morris

by Henry Colton Shumway

ca. 1845
watercolor on ivory
sight 4 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (11.7 x 8.9 cm) rectangle

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Shumway, Henry Coltonnotes
Henry Colton Shumway painted these portraits of Mr. and Mrs. James Morris around 1845. There are several men by the name of James Morris living in New York at this time, so without further information it is difficult to establish the identity of these sitters. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are shown seated on red chairs in identical poses, their bodies held...
James Suydam

by John Carlin

1859
watercolor on ivory
4 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (11.1 x 9.2 cm) oval

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Carlin, Johnnotes
James Augustus Suydam (1819-1865) was an artist and collector associated with the Hudson River school of landscape painting, and part of the sociable group of artists and patrons who spent the summer months in New Hampshire. His sudden death at the age of forty-six caught the art world by surprise.
Jane

by Louis John Rhead

1897
Color lithograph
image: 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. (35.0 x 21.5 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Rhead, Louis John 
Jane Evans Tevis

by Jacob Eichholtz

1827
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Eichholtz, Jacob 
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