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(1656 of 1912)

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James Hopkinson

James Hopkinson

Francis Hopkinson
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes, Conde de Campomanes

Francisco Bayeu
Painting
1777
Owner: Royal Academy of History

James Diman Possibly

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1750-70
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Mrs. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (Sarah Middleton)

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1774
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art
Thomas Savage

Thomas Savage

Jeremiah Theus
Painting
c. 1770
Owner: Mrs. Harben Daniel

William Samuel Moorehouse

Benjamin Blyth
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Shelburne Museum

Comte De Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Rochambeau

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1783
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Anna Maria Tilghman possibly

Anna Maria Tilghman possibly

John Hesselius
Painting
mid 18th century
Owner: Mount Clare Museum House

Portrait of a Lady

Walter Robertson
Painting
1770-1800
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Major Edmund Massingberd Hyrne

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1780s
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Reverend Ebenezer Devotion

Winthrop Chandler
Painting
1770
Owner: Brookline Historical Society

Major Benjamin Huger

Henry Benbridge
Painting
1779
Owner: Mr. Edmond R. du Pont

Mrs. Ebenezer Devotion

Winthrop Chandler
Painting
1770
Owner: Brookline Historical Society

Sarah Bogart Ray

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

Phineas Bond

Unidentified Artist (Forger)
Silhouette
1778?
Owner: Winterthur Museum

Portrait of a Lady

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1771
Owner: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Sarah Mitchell Sayward

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: Historic New England

Woman of Oonalashka

John Webber
Drawing
1778?
Owner: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Rescue Group

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1777/1778
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

William Johnson

Matthew Pratt
Painting
c. 1772
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Mrs. Caldwell Alleged

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-88

Ezekiel Goldthwait

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1771?
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Charles Lee

Charles Lee

Unidentified Artist
Print
1775
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Mary Miles Rice

John Durand
Painting
c. 1772
Owner: New Haven Museum

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