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Robert Brodnax

Painting
c. 1765
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Abigail Smith Adams

Abigail Smith Adams

Benjamin Blyth
Painting
1766
Owner: Massachusetts Historical Society

Stephen Van Rensselaer II

Thomas McIlworth
Painting
c. 1765-70
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Jonathan Simpson

Joseph Blackburn
Painting
c. 1758
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Matthias and Thomas Bordley

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1767
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
David Hall

David Hall

William Williams
Painting
1766
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Edward Savage and Family

Edward Savage
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Worcester Art Museum
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Edward Fisher
Print
1763
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

John Lovell

Nathaniel Smibert
Painting
c. 1757
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

John Bours

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1758-61
Owner: Worcester Art Museum

Edward Allen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1765-75
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Henry Benbridge

Henry Benbridge

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1765
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts
Thomas V. Mumford

Thomas V. Mumford

William Johnston
Painting
1763
Owner: Brooklyn Museum
Two Lovers

Two Lovers

Charles Willson Peale
Drawing
c. 1767
Owner: American Philosophical Society

John Erving

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1772
Owner: Smith College Museum of Art
Two Lovers

Two Lovers

Charles Willson Peale
Drawing
c. 1767
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Joseph Barrell

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1767
Owner: Worcester Art Museum
Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1767
Owner: Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

Nicholas Boylston

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1769
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

James Skirving, Jr.

Jeremiah Theus
Painting
c. 1766
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art
Thomas Hancock

Thomas Hancock

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1758
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Conserved with funds from the Smithsonian Women's Committee

Samuel Verplanck

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Ross

John Ross

Cosmo John Alexander
Painting
1766
Owner: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

Peyton Randolph

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1760-70
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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