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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Robert Feke
Painting
c. 1746
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Alexander Fraser

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1755-70
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Benjamin Pickman

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1758-61
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

John Dies

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Mead Art Museum, Amherst College

Hugh Hall

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1758
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Wilson
Painting
1759
Owner: The White House

Charles Norris

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1750-1900
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Mason Chamberlin
Painting
c. 1754
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

John Custis, IV

John Hesselius
Painting
c. 1750-78
Owner: Tudor Place Foundation, Inc.

Samuel Richardson

Mason Chamberlin
Painting
before 1754
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London
James Pitts

James Pitts

Joseph Blackburn
Painting
1757
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Thomas Bartow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1750?
Owner: Woodmere Art Museum

Nathaniel Marston

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1751
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
William Walton

William Walton

Thomas McIlworth
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Sir William Penn

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1750-1800
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

John Beale Bordley

Dr. Alexander Hamilton
Drawing
c. 1745-55
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Peter Manigault and Friends

George Roupell
Drawing
c. 1760
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Jonathan Mayhew

John Greenwood
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Congregational House, Boston

Thomas Prince

Joseph Badger
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: American Antiquarian Society
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Wilson
Painting
1758
Owner: U.S. Department of State

Philip Livingston

Thomas McIlworth
Painting
c. 1764
Owner: Brooklyn Historical Society

Robert Carter, III

Thomas Hudson
Painting
c. 1750
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Philip Livingston

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1755-65

Isaac Winslow and his Family

Joseph Blackburn
Painting
1755
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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