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Martin Van Buren

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Artist: Eunice Makepeace Towle, 1807 - 1894
Sitter: Martin Van Buren, 5 Dec 1782 - 24 Jul 1862

Date: c. 1837

Type: Painting

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 61cm x 50.8cm (24" x 20"); No frame

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Place: United States\District of Columbia\Washington

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Restrictions & Rights: CC0

Object number: NPG.94.90

Provenance: (Northeast Auctions, Hampton, N. H., 5 &6 November 1994, no. 704; purchased 1994 by NPG

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery