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Portrait Of A Young Man
Abraham Lincoln’s Physician
Eliza Teackle Montgomery
A Man In Spectacles
Elliott Tole Lane
Mrs. Belle Cohen
A Seated Man
Portrait Of A Man
Elizbeth Hoofnagle Markley
Catharine Hatz Eichholtz
Anna Maria Eichholtz
Judge John Todd
Cape Henlopen
Dorothea
Mrs. George Musser
Portrait Of A Woman
unknown woman
Margaret Hager Hoff
John George Hoff, Jr.
Benjamin Schaum
Maria Schaum
Portrait Of A Lady
Mother And Daughter
Eliza Jacob
Mrs. James Patriot Wilson jr.
Mrs. Muhlenberg (courtesy of Mr. Keith Coppola)
AMERICAN GALLERY - 19th Century 
Nubile “Dorothea” stands out like a sore thumb in this array of staid, prim and proper portraiture! I would love to know what the story was with her. Alas, we will never know. 🙂
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We do instead! 🙂 Dorothea is inspired by a character in Miguel de Cervantes’s “Don Quixote de la Mancha”. Initially, she is mistaken for a man because she’s wearing a man’s clothes. After she is seduced through trickery and abandoned by a man who’s already married, she runs off into the wilderness out of shame…and that’s why she sticks out like a sore thumb!
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Suzay, you are amazing at times.
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