Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (December 10, 1850 – August 5, 1936) was an American painter, designer, etcher, commercial artist and illustrator. Brownscombe studied art for years in the United States and in Paris. She was a founding member, student and teacher at the

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. She made genre paintings, including revolutionary and

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n history, most notably ''The First Thanksgiving'' held at

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in Plymouth, Massachusetts. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 paintings, and images of her work have appeared on prints, calendars and greeting cards. Her works are in many public collections and museums. In 1899 she was described by ''

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'' as "one of America's best artists."

Personal life

Brownscombe was born December 10, 1850"Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta (1850–1936)."
Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Gale. January 1, 2007. February 10, 2014. Accessed via HighBeam Research, a subscription required service. in a -story farmhouse near Irving Cliff in

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, the only child of a farmer from Devonshire, England, William Brownscombe, and American Elvira Kennedy Brownscombe. Her father is believed to have immigrated to the United States about 1840Kent Ahrens
"Jennie Brownscombe: American History Painter."
''Woman's Art Journal'' Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn, 1980 – Winter, 1981), pp. 25–29. Accessed via JSTOR, a subscription required service. and built the home she was born and raised in. Her mother, Elvira Kennedy Brownscombe, was a descendant of a Mayflower passenger and

Isaac Stearns Isaac Stearns (February 25, 1598 – June 19, 1671) was an English emigrant who, on April 8, 1630, embarked from Yarmouth, England, aboard the ship ''Arbella''. He was among the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Stearns was born ...

who arrived in the colonies in 1630. During her life, Jennie Brownscombe was an active member of the

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, the Mayflower Descendants and the Historic and Scenic Preservation Society. Her mother, a talented writer and artist, fostered Brownscombe's interest in poetry and art. She won awards at the Wayne County Fair for her work when she was a high school student.''Jennie Brownscombe: Wayne County's Own''
. Wayne County Historical Society. Retrieved February 10, 2014. After her father's death in 1868, Brownscombe earned a living teaching high school in Honesdale
Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary
'. Third ed. St. Clair Shores, Michigan: Somerset Publishers; . p. 159–160. and creating book and magazine illustrations,Jennie Augusta Brownscombe.
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved February 9, 2014.Jennie Augusta Brownscombe.
CLARA Database of Women Artists. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved February 9, 2014. which were inspired by the streams and fields around her home and nearby Irving Cliff. She was described as "slender, with a thin face in which large brown eyes and a dimpled chin were distinctive, and reserved in manner. She lived simply with one companion or servant. Brownscombe studied art in New York and then in Paris in 1882. She returned to the United States and an eye injury prevented her from painting until 1884 when she worked in a New York City studio. She often visited her mother in Honesdale, until her death in 1891. George Henry Hall - self-portrait - 1845 - Brooklyn Museum of Art

George Henry Hall - self-portrait - 1845 - Brooklyn Museum of Art

Between 1885 and 1896 Brownscombe spent the winters in Rome Italy, where she met artist George Henry Hall with who was her companion and mentor. In the summers they shared a studio in

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in the New York Catskill Mountains from about 1908 until Hall died in 1913. Hall "deeply influenced Brownscombe's sense of style, color and craftsmanship."Carol Kort; Liz Sonneborn.
A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts
'. Infobase Publishing; 1 January 2002. . p. 36. When he died, Hall left his home and property in the Catskills to Brownscombe, including the painting "Danaë and the Golden Shower" by

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. Its location was unknown as of 1969. After Hall's death, Brownscombe spent the winters in Bayside and New York City and the summer in the Catskills. She donated a wide range of works of art to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. By 1912 she had donated a self-portrait made by George Henry Hall, a watercolor painting made by Hall of a

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ian fresco, 18th-century brocades, and a sketchbook of

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. By 1917 she had donated other textiles, a silver filigree brooch, and a 17th-century Flemish tapestry that depicted the marriage of

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and

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. She also donated a George Henry Hall sketchbook, a 15th-century textile, and a pair of Etruscan earrings.

Education

In 1871, she went to New York City, studied under

Victor Nehlig Victor Nehlig (1830, Paris – 1909, New York City) was a French-American painter. Life Born in Paris in 1830, Nehlig studied painting under Léon Cogniet and Abel de Pujol. In 1850, he moved to the United States, where he would live and wor ...

Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer.
Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary
'. Harvard University Press; 1 January 1971. . pp. 258–259. and graduated from the Cooper Institute School of Design for Women in 1872. She studied at the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...

for a couple of years under

Lemuel Wilmarth Lemuel Everett Wilmarth (November 11, 1835 – July 27, 1918) was an American painter. He was a founder of the Art Students League of New York and a member of the National Academy of Design. He was professor in charge of the schools of the Nation ...

until she became a founding member and student of the

. She made illustrations, wrote short pieces about art for the newspapers, and taught art classes at the Art Students League to defray tuition and other expenses and studied there until 1878, when she continued her studies at the National Academy of Design until 1881. At the Academy Brownscombe won honorable mention, the first prize Elliott Medal in the Antique School and the first prize Suydam Medal in the Life studies school. After completing her studies at the Academy, she traveled to Europe and studied in Paris under

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, a genre painter in his Brittany and Paris studios.

Career

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850-1935) The Homecoming 1885

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Love’s Young Dream, 1887

Jennie Brownscombe - Washington Greeting Lafayette at Mount Vernon

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe - Sunday Mornging in Sleepy Hollow - by 1902

Jennie Augusta Brownscombe - Detail image of The First Thanksgiving - 1914

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Jennie Brownscombe - The Landing of the Pilgrims - ca

Overview

Brownscome worked as a water color and oil painter, illustrator, etcher, designer and commercial artist. She made portraits and genre paintings. Art historian

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said that Brownscombe had a "penchant for narrative painting rendered with realism." Her paintings, which depicted both emotional scenes and historical ones, were exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and London. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 of her works, which were produced for greeting cards, calendars and prints in the late 19th century.Carol Kort; Liz Sonneborn.
A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts
'. Infobase Publishing; 1 January 2002. . p. 35. Some of her popular paintings are the "idealized vision of traditional rural life and family" in ''Love's Young Dream (1887)''''Love's Young Dream.''
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved February 10, 2014. and ''The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth (1914)'', in the collection of the

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at Plymouth, Massachusetts.Marge Hook, Sally Eno Soden, Gloria McCullough, and Ann O'Hara
''Jennie Brownscombe's Homestead''
. Wayne County Historical Society. Retrieved February 10, 2014. In 1899 she was described by ''

'' as "one of America's best artists.""Governor Rendell, Pennsylvania Commission for Women Launch Northeast Mountains Region 'Legendary Ladies' Guide."
US Fed News Service, Including US State News. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. April 24, 2008. February 10, 2014. Accessed via HighBeam Research, a subscription required service. She was a member of the New York Women Painters Society,

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, and the

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Genre paintings

Her first sold painting was ''Grandmother's Treasures,'' made in 1876. Exhibited in the 1876 National Academy of Design show, it was described as a "large and cleverly painted interior... with figures." The painting she made in 1879, ''The New Scholar,'' is listed in the book, ''Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A Guide to Pictures Occurring in More Than Eight Hundred Books''. Although she primarily made genre paintings, she also made portraits and experimented with Impressionism, such as in the 1885 painting, ''Apple Orchards in May'' where she dotted green and white paint "to give the impression of the wispy, lovely bloom of apple trees in springtime."

"New Woman" illustrator

As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "

New Woman The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century. In 1894, Irish writer Sarah Grand (1854–1943) used the term "new woman" in an influential article, to refer to ...

". Artists "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplyfying this emerging type through their own lives." In the late 19th century and early 20th century about 88% of the subscribers of 11,000 magazines and periodicals were women. As women entered the artist community, publishers hired women to create illustrations that depict the world through a woman's perspective. Brownscombe's work expressed a sentimental viewpoint, as in ''Love's Young Dream'' and a feminine perspective is evident in ''The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth'' which depicts a woman in the foreground with her two children. Other successful illustrators were

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Elizabeth Shippen Green Elizabeth Shippen Green (September 1, 1871 – May 29, 1954) was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for publications such as ''The Ladies' Home Journal'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Harper's Magazine''. ...

, and

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. She sold the reproduction rights to more than 100 of her works, which were produced for greeting cards, calendars and prints in the late 19th century. About 1882 reproductions of her paintings became popular and printers sought out Brownscombe for her paintings, which were well-made but also became "stilted and repetitious". In ''Love's Young Dream,'' Brownscombe depicts a mother looking on with fond interest at a woman whose attention is transfixed towards an approaching man on horseback, her father intent on his reading. "Brownscombe contrasts the right-hand side of the picture, where all three figures have been placed, with the left, where an unencumbered view of the landscape stretches back to mist-shrouded hills." Washington Post art critic Paul Richard commented that the 1887 painting of a young woman, with childhood behind her, yearns for making a home with a man, rather than a career. He said, "It is not easy to imagine – harem scenes aside – a less liberated picture."

Colonial Revival

Brownscombe was among a group of artists of the

Colonial Revival Movement The Colonial Revival movement was a national expression of early North American culture, primarily the built and artistic environments of the Colonial Coast, east coast colonies. The Colonial Revival is generally associated with the eighteenth-cent ...

that admired colonial heroes like George Washington and colonial history, inspired by the 1876 centennial. Other artists included

Howard Pyle Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. He was a native of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894, he began ...

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 8, 1863 – March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled ''The Pageant of a Nation'', the largest series of American historical paintings by a sin ...

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Edward Percy Moran Edward Percy Moran (1862–1935), sometimes known as Percy Moran, was an American artist known for his scenes of American history. Early life He was born in Philadelphia on July 29, 1862, to Edward Moran, a notable artist who emigrated from En ...

and John Ward Dunsmore. Their works, inspired by earlier artwork and George Washington biographies, were publicized in color in books, magazines, calendars and other commercial products, utilizing contemporary advances in lithographic printing. Many were also sold into private collections. She was also becoming more aware of the colonial roots of her mother's family. Of the paintings she made of historic figures, she made 20 or more paintings of George Washington, some of which were reproduced by Gerlach Barklow Company, including ''the Marriage of George and Martha Washington'' and ''The First Meeting of Colonel Washington and Mrs. Curtis'', which were purchased from Brownscombe in 1919 and 1920.Barbara J. Mitnick.
George Washington: American Symbol
'. Hudson Hills; 1999. . pp. 18, 118. She made paintings of other colonial scenes in the 1890s; Between 1895 and 1897 she made ''The Peace Ball'' which depicted Washington introducing his mother to

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and

Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, 1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807, was a French nobleman and general whose army played the decisive role in helping the United States defeat the British army at Yorktown in 1781 during the ...

. She painted scenes of

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hosting a ball, the

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being rung by a man, and

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sewing the American flag. Thanksgiving at Plymouth, 1925, Brownscombe

''The First Thanksgiving'',1914, depicts the historic event when colonialists and Native Americans, led by

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, gathered in 1621 to celebrate the bounty of their first harvest in accordance with an English tradition. That 1914 Thanksgiving painting has a few historical inaccuracies: the Native Americans are dressed as Plains Indians and the presence of the log cabin.Robert Tracy McKenzie.
The First Thanksgiving: What the Real Story Tells Us About Loving God and Learning from History
'. InterVarsity Press; 20 May 2013. . p. 97. Pointedly, the anachronistic Plains Indians headdresses depicted in her 1914 painting were not repeated when Brownscombe recreated the First Thanksgiving scene in her 1925 painting “Thanksgiving at Plymouth.”“Thanksgiving at Plymouth”
National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved December 14, 2018. She made a painting of the landing at

Plymouth Rock Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known writt ...

about 1920 entitled ''Landing of the Pilgrims'' with a woman of "

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quality" as the central figure in a pyramid shaped composition. According to author and historian John D. Seelye, "Hers is a tender presence guarded by the advancing figures of

Miles Standish Myles Standish (c. 1584 – October 3, 1656) was an English military officer and colonizer. He was hired as military adviser for Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States by the Pilgrims. Standish accompanied the Pilgrims on ...

with

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and sword and a

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(probably John Carver) with a blunderbuss, but it reminds us that by the

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year women in America were gathering political strength."John D. Seelye.
Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock: The Place of Plymouth Rock
'. Univ of North Carolina Press; 1998. . pp. 17–20, 386.

Portraits

In the 1920s she made portraits of federal Circuit Court of Appeals judges,

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trustee William Hopkins Leupp and

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physician and distant relative Dr. Charles Story. Brownscombe created illustrations for ''

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'',

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and Pauline Bouvé's ''Tales of the Mayflower Children'', which was published in 1927.

Later years

She completed ''Children Playing in the Orchard'' for Lincoln School in Honesdale in 1932 after having a stroke. Brownscombe painted until 1934 when she was 84 years of age. She died August 5, 1936 in

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and was buried in the

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in Honesdale next to her parents. She had never married or had any children.

Legacy

Her works continued to be sold successfully in the United States and Europe during the

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. In 1982, she was among the "Legendary Ladies" of the Northeast Mountains Region, a program sponsored by Pennsylvania

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. The women included in this group are described as follows: "Throughout the commonwealth, there are hundreds of places where women have made history--women who have fought against stereotypes, prejudice and an abundance of obstacles, becoming a part of Pennsylvania's heritage." The Wayne County Historical Society in Honesdale, Pennsylvania held a retrospective exhibit of her works in 1996. In early 2011 a solo exhibition of her work was held at the Hope Horn Gallery in

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. Some of the paintings from the exhibit came from the collection of the Wayne County Historical Society, Pennsylvania. On loan from the Pilgrim Hall was ''The First Thanksgiving'' and the

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loaned ''Love's Young Dream.''''Press Release: Jennie Brownscombe Exhibition in Scranton and more in 2011''
Wayne County Historical Society. Retrieved February 10, 2014.

Collections

Brownscombe's works are in the collections of: * Cornell Fine Arts Museum,

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, Winter Park, Florida *

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, Franklin Square, New York *

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, Easton, Pennsylvania * Lincoln School, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * Museum of Art,

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, Waterville, Maine * National Museum of Women in the Arts *

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, New Jersey * Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth * Wayne County Historical Society. * Library of Congress, Washington

Works

* ''A Frolic'', watercolor painting, by 1876American Society of Painters in Water Colors Exhibition held at the Galleries of the National Academy of Design, 187
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''A Rest by the Way'', black and white, by 1879 * ''A Spring Day'', painting * ''A Walk in the Woods'', paintingUtica Art Association Exhibition

Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''A Welcome Step'', by 1902 * ''An Argument'', oil painting * ''Apple Orchards in May'', oil painting, Museum of Art,

, Waterville, Maine * ''At the County Fair'', crayon drawing, by 1875Louisville Industrial Exposition Catalogue of Paintings, Natural History, and Ladies' Department. 1875
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Awaiting the Victor'', by 1892 * ''Berry Pickers'', oil painting, Private Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, sold at Bonhams May 3, 2017 * ''Blossom Time'', painting, 1888 * ''Child with Flowers in Apron (Mrs. Bud Dodge)'', watercolor, late 19th century, Wayne County Historical Society * ''Colonial Children and School'', oil painting, early 20th century * ''Cora Sears at Age Five,'' oil painting, c. 1875, Wayne County Historical Society, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''Crown, Scepter, and Kingdom'', watercolor painting, by 1875American Society of Painters in Water Colors, held at the Galleries of the National Academy of Design, 1875

Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Dawn's Early Light, Francis Scott Key, Baltimore Harbor'', oil painting, early 20th century * ''Day-dreams'', painting, by 1874 * ''Dr. O.W. Holmes' "

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"'', painting * ''Easter Morn'', oil paintingArt Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''First Thanksgiving at Plymouth'' (study), c. 1910 * ''First Thanksgiving at Plymouth'', 1914, Pilgrim Hall Museum * ''George Hall-Brownscombe Studio'', watercolor, c. 1912, Wayne County Historical Society * ''Girl in Wheat'', oil painting, before 1898, Wayne County Historical Society, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''Goose Girl'', oil painting, 1882, Lincoln School, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''Grecian Artist'', by 1894 * ''Guinevere at Camelot'', watercolor, Raydon Gallery, New York New York * ''Happy Childhood'', painting, by 1878Louisville Industrial Exposition. Catalogue of Paintings and Statuary 1878

Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Homecoming'', oil painting, 1885 * ''In an Art Gallery'', oil painting, late 19th century, Lincoln School, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''In Anticipation of the Invitation,'' 1888 * ''In the Garden'', oil painting, sold at Sotheby's 1980 * ''Joy of Their Old Age'', oil painting, before 1885 * ''Love Letter'', painting, sold at Christie's 1982 * ''Love's Young Dream'', oil on canvas, 1887, National Museum of Women in the Arts * ''Marriage of George and Martha Washington'' * ''Materfamilias'', watercolor, by 1875 * ''Maternal Admonitions'', watercolor painting, by 1876 * ''May Day'', watercolor, 1896,

, New Jersey * ''Medication'', by 1901 * ''Minute Men Called to Arms'', oil painting, c. 1912 * ''Papa's Come Home!'', paintingSouthern Exposition at Louisville, KY, 1886
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Peaceful Mount Vernon'', oil painting, c. 1905 * ''Portrait of a Young Lady, Kate Miner'', oil painting, late 19th century, Wayne County Historical Society * ''Scenes from Honesdale, Pennsylvania''m oil painting, c. 1900 * ''Songs of Love'', by 1892 * ''Story of the Battle'', by 1894 * ''Summer Flowers'', watercolor, by 1879American Water Color Society, held at the Galleries of the National Academy of Design, 1879

Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Sunday Morning in Sleepy Hollow'', by 1902 * ''Sunday Morning'', oil painting, 1882, Wayne County Historical Society, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''The Choir Boys'', oil painting, Cornell Fine Arts Museum,

, Winter Park, Florida * ''The Coquette'', oil painting, sold at Sotheby's 1984 * ''The Event of the Season, Elsie Venner, Chap. 19'', painting, by 1874 * ''The First Meeting of Colonel Washington and Mrs. Curtis,'' four-color print made from a c. 1919 painting, Gerlach Barklow Company, Joliet Illinois * ''The Gleaners'', by 1902 * ''The Great Convention'', oil painting, c. 1910,

, Franklin Square, New York * ''The Last Look'', painting, by 1884Southern Exposition at Louisville, KY, 1884
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''The New Scholar'', oil on canvas, 1897, Gilcrease Museum,

''On Common Ground.''
''The New Scholar'' (GM 0126.1213) Gilcrease Museum,

. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''The Parson's Bride'' * ''The Peace Ball'', oil on canvas, 1897, Newark Museum, New Jersey * ''Venus Mirror'', by 1892 * ''Washington Bidding Farewell to His Generals''Archives and Special Collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''Washington Greeting Lafayette at Mount Vernon'', oil painting, early 20th century,

, Easton, Pennsylvania * ''Washington Taking Leave of his Officers'', oil painting, early 20th century, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania * ''Washingtons at Monticello'', oil painting, early 20th century. Mary and George Washington with Thomas Jefferson, Wayne County Historical Society, Honesdale, Pennsylvania * ''Washington's Home Life at Newbergh Headquarters'', oil painting, early 20th century * ''Woman at Spinning Wheel'', painting * ''Yes Mother, in a minute!'', painting, by 1874American Society of Painters in Water Colors held at the galleries of the National Academy of Design, 1874
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Collections Research Center. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved February 10, 2014. * ''You Can't Go'', black and white, by 1879

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