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Catalog of American Portraits

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William Stephens Smith

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1794
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Timothy Pitkin

Reuben Moulthrop
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Three Figures

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1785-86
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sally Chew Elliot O'Donnell

Sally Chew Elliot O'Donnell

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1787
Owner: Chrysler Museum of Art

Marquis De Lafayette

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780-81
Owner: Washington & Lee University

John Greenwood

William Lovett
Painting
c. 1790-95
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Charles Callis Western and Shirley Western

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1783
Owner: Huntington Library Art Collections and Botanical Gardens

Sarah Mills Olcott

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Dartmouth College

Archibald Bulloch, Governor of Georgia

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Richard Kempenfelt

Richard Kempenfelt

Ralph Earl
Painting
1783
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Bradford Hubbard

Reuben Moulthrop
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: New Haven Museum

Ann Spotswood Payne

Payne Limner
Painting
c. 1791
Owner: James Madison Museum of Orange County Heritage

John Redman

Joseph Sansom
Silhouette
1789
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Hugh Hill Ober

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: Beverly Historical Society and Museum

Mrs. Quakenbush

Winthrop Chandler
Painting
1780-90
Owner: de Young Museum
Elizabeth Maynard Denny

Elizabeth Maynard Denny

James Peale
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Unidentified Man

Ralph Earl
Painting
1785-1801
Owner: Saint Louis Art Museum

Duke de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

James Sharples
Painting
1780-1811
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Frances Blair Peirce

Jacob Eichholtz
Painting
before 1842
Owner: Private Collection

Samuel Haven

Joseph Steward
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society
Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry

Marianne Celeste Dragon Dimitry

José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Louisiana State Museum

Mrs. Brown

James Sharples
Painting
1780-1811
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Elizabeth Hubbard Stiles

St. John Honeywood
Drawing
1781
Owner: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Unidentified Man

Unidentified Man

Walter Robertson
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: UNLOCATED

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