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Miss Allen

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-80
Owner: Private collection
Mary Cary Ambler

Mary Cary Ambler

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Providence Hext Prioleau

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Portrait Medallion of Captain James Cook

John Flaxman
Sculpture
c. 1775-80
Owner: British Museum
William Frankland

William Frankland

Mather Brown
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Thomas Pinckney

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
c. 1775-85
Owner: The Greenbrier
Sir Hugh Smithson Percy

Sir Hugh Smithson Percy

Robert Pollard
Print
c. 1782
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lord, 7 July 1778

Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lord, 7 July 1778

John Singleton Copley
Painting
1779-81
Owner: Tate Gallery
Samuel Chace, Jr.

Samuel Chace, Jr.

William Blodgett
Painting
c. 1775-80
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Portrait of a Woman

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Henry Bedlow

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: New-York Historical Society

Louis-Guillaume Otto, Comte de Mosloy

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Unidentified Army Officer

Unidentified Army Officer

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1775-78
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum

Thomas Robinson

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1784
Owner: Independence National Historical Park

Rachel Adams Prescott

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-80
Owner: Jaffrey Public Library

John Lowell

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1782
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Study of a Man in Long Robe (left side)

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1779-81
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Adam mirror

Unidentified Maker
Decorative Arts
c. 1780
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchased through generous contributions to the Victor Proetz Memorial Fund

Selina Elizabeth Brooke, Viscountess de Vesci of Abbey Leix

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1776
Owner: Williams College Museum of Art
Adriaan Bancker

Adriaan Bancker

John Durand
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: New-York Historical Society

General Arthur St. Clair

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1779
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Israel Putnam

Israel Putnam

Robert Pollard
Print
c. 1782
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

John Remsen

John Mare
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Museum of the City of New York
A Gentleman

A Gentleman

Joseph Dunkerley
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

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