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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Charles Le Vasseur
Print
1778
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Antoine Houdon
Sculpture
1778
Owner: New-York Historical Society
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Decorative Arts
1778
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Self Portrait

John Trumbull
Painting
1777
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Robert Rogers

Robert Rogers

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1780
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Samuel Smedley

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1776-78
Owner: Connecticut Historical Society

Portrait of Samuel Fraunces

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-85
Owner: Fraunces Tavern Museum
Henry Fitzhugh

Henry Fitzhugh

John Hesselius
Painting
1771
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

Benedict Arnold

Unidentified Artist
Print
1776
Owner: Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey

Matthew Pratt
Painting
c. 1772
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

David Garrick

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
1772?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Catherine Macaulay

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1770
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

William Beekman

Abraham Delanoy
Painting
c. 1767
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Robert R. Livingston

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1760-70
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

William Temple Franklin

Wedgwood and Sons
Sculpture
c. 1783
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Matthew Clarkson

Walter Robertson
Painting
n.d.a.
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Benjamin Franklin

Wedgwood & Bentley
Sculpture
1775-77
Owner: Buten Museum of Wedgwood (closed 1988)

Ralph Izard and Wife, Alice

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1775
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Charlotte Sophia

Charlotte Sophia

Benjamin West
Painting
1777
Owner: Yale Center for British Art

Benjamin Franklin

Jean-Baptiste Nini
Sculpture
1778
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

James Peale
Painting
after 1779
Owner: U.S. Department of State

Robert Burton

John Ramage
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Lewes Historical Society

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Paul Jerome de Brea
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Elizabeth Shewell and Raphael Lamar West

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Cleveland Museum of Art

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    • Miniatures  331
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    • Silhouettes  32
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