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No likenesses of Allen made from life have been found, in spite of numerous attempts to locate them.

Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty.

The nearest potential images included one claimed to be by noted Revolutionary War era engraver Pierre Eugene du Simitiere that turned out to be a forgery, and a reference to a portrait possibly by Ralph Earl that has not been found ( as of Stewart Holbrook's writing in 1940 ).

Alexander Graydon, with whom Allen was paroled during his captivity in New York, described him like this: