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John Bolling, Sr.

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
1700-25
Owner: College of William & Mary

John Winthrop

Unidentified Artist
Painting
18th-early 19th century
Owner: American Antiquarian Society

Hannah Harrison Ludwell

School of Godfrey Kneller
Painting
c. 1700
Owner: Stratford Hall Plantation

"Nouveau Theatre d'Italie" - plate XLII

Print
1704
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Victor Proetz

Increase Mather, frontispiece to "The Blessed Hope"

Thomas Emmes
Print
1702
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Lady

Gerrit Duyckinck
Painting
c. 1710
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Byrd II

Painting
1700-04
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

Sarah Shackmaple Gidley

Unidentified Artist
Painting
18th century
Owner: Private collection

"Nouveau Theatre d'Italie" - title page

Document
1704
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Victor Proetz

Elizabetha

Unidentified Artist
Painting
18th century
Owner: San Diego Museum of Art
The Little Ancestor

The Little Ancestor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
early 18th century
Owner: Mrs. Nightingale McKinnon

Wait Still Winthrop

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1700
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Abiah Franklin

Painting
1707?

William Byrd II

Sir Godfrey Kneller
Painting
c. 1704
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Sarah Willet Hooker Buckingham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1700
Owner: First Congregational Church, Norwalk, Connecticut

"Nouveau Theatre d'Italie" - plate LII

Print
1704
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; bequest of Victor Proetz

Paul Dudley

Jeremiah Dummer
Painting
c. 1703-14
Owner: Boston Athenaeum

Surveyor

Unidentified Artist
Painting
18th century
Owner: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Stephen Buckingham

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1700
Owner: First Congregational Church, Norwalk, Connecticut

Samuel Vetch

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1703
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Robert Auchmuty

John Smibert
Painting
18th century
Owner: Private Collection

Daniel Parke II

Sir Godfrey Kneller
Painting
c. 1704
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

John Winthrop

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1707
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Daniel Dulany the Elder

Justus Engelhardt Kuhn
Painting
early 18th century
Owner: Maryland State Art Collection

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