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Battle of La Hogue

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Baptiste Weyler
Jewelry
c. 1782
Owner: Private collection
Benjamin Franklin Cup (Gobelet

Benjamin Franklin Cup (Gobelet "Litron")

Etienne-Henry Le Guay Elder
Decorative Arts
c. 1779
Owner: Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens

Portrait of Colonel James DeLancey

John Durand
Painting
c. 1778-82
Owner: The Society of the Cincinnati

Elisha Doane

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1783
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright
Print
c. 1780
Owner: Brown University, The John Carter Brown Library

The Artist's Mother, Mrs. Charles Peale, with Her Grandchildren

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1783
Owner: Private Collection

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780-82
Owner: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

George Washington

Robert Scott
Print
c. 1780

David Garrick

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Folger Shakespeare Library

George Washington

John Norman
Print
c. 1779
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

John George Archer, M.B.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: John Erwin Archer

Queen Charlotte

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1776
Owner: Barbara Gill
Samuel Blodget

Samuel Blodget

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1784
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin

William Hackwood
Sculpture
c. 1775-80
Owner: Fitzwilliam Museum

John Moultrie III and Family

John Francis Rigaud
Painting
c. 1782
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Catharine Macaulay (née Sawbridge)

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

George Washington (Trenton type)

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1779-82
Owner: The Metropolitan Railway Surplus Lands Co. Ltd.

Thomas Lansdale

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1781
Owner: Mrs. Harold Berry

George Washington (Bust-length of 1779-1783 type)

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1779-80
Owner: Columbia Museum of Art

Robert R. Livingston

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1782

Portrait of John Young in Powdered Wig and Yellow Waistcoat, Circa 1782

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1782

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Siffred Duplessis
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

George Washington (Valley Forge type)

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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