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De Peyster Boy With a Dog

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1730-1734
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Abigail Davison Fitch

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1720-30
Owner: Fitchburg Historical Society

Portrait of Thomas Lawrence as a Child

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1730
Owner: Robert Hull Fleming Museum of the University of Vermont
Johannes Ten Broeck

Johannes Ten Broeck

Nehemiah Partridge
Painting
1720
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Margaret Savage

Savage Limner
Painting
c. 1720-30

Mary Browne Lynde

Sir Godfrey Kneller
Painting
c. 1700-20
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Benjamin Ellery, Jr.

Nehemiah Partridge
Painting
c. 1717
Owner: Newport Historical Society

John Lowell

Nathaniel Emmons
Painting
1728
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

The Arrival of the Turkish Ambassador, Méhémet Effendi, at the Tuileries, March 21, 1721

Charles Parrocel
Painting
1723
Owner: Musée National du Château de Versailles

Portrait of Unknown Man

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1730
Owner: Historical Society of Berks County

George I

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1718
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Tryntje Otten Veeder

Schuyler Limner
Painting
1720-25
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Daniel Dulany the Elder

Daniel Dulany the Elder

Unidentified Artist
Painting
18th century
Owner: Dr. Archibald Cary Randolph

William Burnet

John Watson
Painting
c. 1726
Owner: Colby College Museum of Art

Richard Ward

Nehemiah Partridge
Painting
c. 1720-40
Owner: Redwood Library & Athenaeum

Elihu Yale and His Black Servant

James Worsdale
Painting
c. 1715
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Frances Parke Custis Winch

Frances Parke Custis Winch

Nehemiah Partridge
Painting
1723
Owner: Washington & Lee University

Andrew Oliver

Nathaniel Emmons
Painting
1728
Owner: Oliver Family

Boy with a Fawn

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1720
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Benjamin Harrison 1726-1821

Unidentified Artist
Painting
after 1726
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Mr. Willson

Schuyler Limner
Painting
1720
Owner: National Gallery of Art
Peter Thacher

Peter Thacher

Peter Pelham
Painting
1729
Owner: Deerfield Academy

De Peyster Twins

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1728
Owner: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center

Elizabeth Lindall Pitts

John Smibert
Painting
1735
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

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