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(1728 of 1912)

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Portrait of Don Juan Bautista De Anza

Portrait of Don Juan Bautista De Anza

Fray Orci
Painting
1774
Owner: Palace of the Governors, New Mexico History Museum

Sawbridge, John, ESQ., Citizen and Alderman of London

Thomas Watson
Print
1772
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London Trustees

Edward Antill III

Painting
c. 1765
Owner: Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec

Charles Pinckney

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1773

Lt. Col. Delancey

George Engleheart
Painting
c. 1783
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

12th Earl of Eglinton Hugh Montgomerie

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Head of George III

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1770
Owner: McCord Museum of Canadian History

Mrs. Warner Lewis, Jr.

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
Probably 1772-75
Owner: Colonial Williamsburg

Peyton Randolph

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1782
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Charles Dewitt

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1770-80
Owner: New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Man in a Green Coat

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1779-85
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Priscilla Hill Montfort

Priscilla Hill Montfort

John Durand
Painting
c. 1770-1885
Owner: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Nathaniel Whitaker

Mason Chamberlin
Painting
c. 1767
Owner: Dartmouth College

Major David Lennox

John Ramage
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Susannah Maybank Bond Carne

Jeremiah Theus
Painting
c. 1765
Owner: New-York Historical Society

James Rice

John Durand
Painting
c. 1772
Owner: New Haven Museum
Unidentified Man

Unidentified Man

Edward Miles
Painting
1770
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jane Cutler Doane

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

Patrick Henry

John Trumbull
Drawing
1776
Owner: Private collection

Sarah Brown Bowen

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1771-74

Rachel Brewer Peale

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1769
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones

Samuel King
Painting
1771
Owner: Historic New England

Mary McIntosh Williams Sargent

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1784
Owner: Private Collection

Study for Death of Major Peirson

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
c. 1783
Owner: Tate Gallery

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