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William Randolph, III

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1755
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

Elizabeth Calvert

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1754
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art

Daniel Jenifer

John Hesselius
Painting
1752

Eleanor Wyer Foster (Mrs. Isaac Foster)

Joseph Badger
Painting
1755
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Mary Winthrop Wanton

Robert Feke
Painting
1740-50
Owner: Redwood Library & Athenaeum

Ann Curtis Clay and Her Daughter Mary

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1759
Owner: Schwarz Gallery
Portrait of Governor Fauquier

Portrait of Governor Fauquier

Richard Wilson
Painting
c. 1757
Owner: Thomas Coram Foundation for Children
Robert Monckton

Robert Monckton

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1761-70
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Elizabeth Campbell Foye

Joseph Badger
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Rebecca Calvert

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1754
Owner: Baltimore Museum of Art

Mrs. James Smith

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

John Rogers

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1759
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Margaret Cabot Gerrish

John Greenwood
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Walter Hanson

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: Historical Society of Charles County

William B. Hare

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
18th century
Owner: Richmond Academy of Medicine

August Vallette

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1749-52
Owner: Allentown Art Museum

Rebecca DeGarmo

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1740s
Owner: Private collection
Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1745
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Lady of the Russell Family (?)

Joseph Blackburn
Painting
1754-64
Owner: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Sir James Wright

Sir James Wright

Andrea Soldi
Painting
c. 1760-71
Owner: Private Collection

Mary Breintnall Peters

Robert Feke
Painting
c. 1749
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Unidentified Man

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1763
Owner: Colby College Museum of Art

Judith Walker Browne Lewis ?

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1755-60
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

John Robinson

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1754
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

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