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Anthony Armstrong Jones, Lord Snowdon

Tuesday, November 16, 1965

Professional photographer; husband of Britain's Princess Margaret.

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Ferdinand Richardt

Ferdinand Richardt

1858

In 1858, Ferdinand Richardt, a 19th-century Danish-American painter and lithographer, visited Mount Vernon.

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Louis Remy Mignot

Louis Remy Mignot

Circa 1858-59

Louis Rémy Mignot was a 19th-century American painter best known for his landscapes of the American South and South America.

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Jean-Antoine Houdon

October 1785

The accomplished and renowned sculptor was sent from Paris to create a statue of George Washington.

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