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Thomas Aston Coffin

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1758
Owner: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Unidentified Woman

F. Lewis
Painting
1761
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

Gertraud Jacke Graff

John Valentine Haidt
Painting
c. 1759-60
Owner: Moravian Archives

Jabez Bowen

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1771-74

Kensey Johns II

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1749-63
Owner: State of Delaware, Bureau of Museums and Historic Sites

Ezekiel Hersey

Benjamin Blyth
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Harvard University Portrait Collection

Woman of Van Rensselaer Family

Thomas McIlworth
Painting
1760?
Owner: Albany Institute of History and Art

Richard Ray

John Durand
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Unidentified Man

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1755-65
Owner: William Benton Museum of Art

Portrait of a Lady

Lawrence Kilburn
Painting
1764
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Elizabeth Apthorpe McEvers

Francis Cotes
Painting
c. 1760-70
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Elizabeth Storer Smith

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1769?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Mary Mazyck

Jeremiah Theus
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

John C. Wiltbank

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1760
Owner: Lewes Historical Society

Unidentified Moravian Girl

John Valentine Haidt
Painting
c. 1755-60
Owner: Moravian Archives

Young Moravian Girl

John Valentine Haidt
Painting
c. 1755-60
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum

John Lothrop

John Durand
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Thomas Cranston

Joseph Blackburn
Painting
c. 1754-55
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Sir Charles Hardy

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1755
Owner: Brooklyn Museum

Portrait of John Gardiner

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1758
Owner: Westmoreland Museum of Art

Richard Ward

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1740-60
Owner: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

Catharine Beekman or Maria Beekman

Abraham Delanoy
Painting
c. 1767
Owner: New-York Historical Society
A Devocion de Don Manuel de Salces y Dona Francisca Infante

A Devocion de Don Manuel de Salces y Dona Francisca Infante

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1767
Owner: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Peyton Randolph

John Wollaston
Painting
c. 1757-67
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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