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Adam Beauchamp

Jeremiah Theus
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Hannah Callowhill Penn

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1742
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Henry I. Lee

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1730-45
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Elias Boudinot, III

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1735-45
Owner: Princeton University

Lynde Minshall Walter

Alvan Clark
Painting
c. 1730-40
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Philip Livingston

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1735-45
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
John Potter and Family

John Potter and Family

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Newport Historical Society

Jacob Franks

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1735
Owner: Alice L. Walton

Samuel Doty

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1735
Owner: Shelburne Museum

Eunice Turner Browne Balston

John Smibert
Painting
c. 1730-40
Owner: Colby College Museum of Art

Franks Children with Lamb

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1735
Owner: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Jacobus Van Rensselaer

John Watson
Painting
c. 1735-45
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Sarah Hall Harrison

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Unidentified Woman

Charles Bridges
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Milwaukee Art Museum

Unidentified Man

Van Rensselaer Limner
Painting
c. 1735-40
Owner: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elizabeth Blair Bolling

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
c. 1735-40
Owner: College of William & Mary

Joseph Sewall

John Smibert
Painting
c. 1735
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Mary Kennon Bolling

Mary Kennon Bolling

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
c. 1735-40
Owner: College of William & Mary
Peter Faneuil

Peter Faneuil

John Smibert
Painting
c. 1742
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund and through the gift of Orme Wilson) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.

Charles Pinckney

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1740
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Unidentified Boy

Joseph Badger
Painting
c. 1735
Owner: Historic Deerfield
Lydia Addison Hesselius

Lydia Addison Hesselius

Gustavus Hesselius
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Richard Checkley

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1730-40
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Unidentified Colonial Gentleman

Charles Bridges
Painting
c. 1740
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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