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  | Artist | Notes |
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 | Mrs. John Watson (Matilda) by Sarah Goodridge ca. 1825 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Goodridge, Sarah | |
 | Mrs. John Willis Ellis (Mary White) by John Henry Brown 1846 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Brown, John Henry |  Mrs. Ellis was the wife of the North Carolina governor who signed the secession order aligning North Carolina with the Confederacy. The governor died in office on July 7, 1861. |
 | Mrs. Joseph Wright by Ralph Earl 1792 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Earl, Ralph | |
 | Mrs. Peter Van Dyke by Margaret Bogardus ca. 1835 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Bogardus, Margaret | These portraits were painted while Margaret Maclay Bogardus was in New York. We do not know much about Peter Van Dyke and his wife, previously known as Susan Ann (Hickson) Lansing, but his name suggests he was a descendant of the earliest Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, now New York. |
 | Mrs. Richard Alsop by Ralph Earl 1792 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Earl, Ralph | |
 | Mrs. Richard Brown by John Hesselius ca. 1760 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Hesselius, John | |
 | Mrs. Thomas Lee Shippen by Hugh Bridport ca. 1816 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Bridport, Hugh | |
 | Mrs. William T. Evans and Her Son by Henry Oliver Walker 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Walker, Henry Oliver | This painting shows the wife and son of William Thomas Evans, a businessman and art collector who donated a large number of paintings to this museum in 1915. Henry Oliver Walker chose to portray Mrs. Evans reading a book to her son, emphasizing that she was raising the child with a classical education in literature. Light bounces off the ornate... |
 | Music by Thomas Wilmer Dewing ca. 1895 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Dewing, Thomas Wilmer | |
 | My Children (Mary, Gerald, And Gladys Thayer) by Abbott Handerson Thayer ca. 1897 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Thayer, Abbott Handerson |
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