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Marquis De Lafayette

Marquis De Lafayette

Johann Ernst Heinsius
Painting
c. 1780-1800
Owner: Toledo Museum of Art

Joseph Cabot

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1785-1800
Owner: Peabody Essex Museum
Martha Jefferson Randolph

Martha Jefferson Randolph

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1785-1805
Owner: Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation

David Noble

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-1800
Owner: Williams College Museum of Art

John Hancock

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
c. 1780-1800
Owner: Wadsworth Atheneum
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1780-1805
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Alexander Hamilton

Giuseppe Ceracchi
Sculpture
c. 1791
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

Archibald Robertson

Archibald Robertson
Painting
c. 1790-95
Owner: New-York Historical Society
James Monore

James Monore

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th century
Owner: James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1780-1805
Owner: American Philosophical Society

Samuel Folwell

Samuel Folwell
Painting
c. 1790-95
Owner: New-York Historical Society

John Witherspoon

Thomas Gibson
Painting
c. 1793-1800
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780-1800
Owner: Mütter Museum, College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Nathaniel Balch

Edward Savage
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Siffred Duplessis
Painting
1785-1800
Owner: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.

William Beckford

George Romney
Painting
late 18th century
Owner: Private collection

William Woollett

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
late 18th century
Owner: Silverman Galleries, Inc.
Thomas McKean

Thomas McKean

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
after 1787
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of the collection of George Buchanan Coale, 1926

William Williamson

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1785-1800
Owner: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art

Samuel Bradhurst

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790-1800

Obidiah Johnson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1785-1800
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Marquis De Lafayette

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780-1800
Owner: Carnegie Museum of Art

George Henry Remsen

William Verstille
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Obidiah Johnson

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1785-1800
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

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