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Philip Barton Key

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Robert Hanson Harrison

John Trumbull
Drawing
c. 1786-97
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Nathaniel Taylor

Ralph Earl
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Addison Gallery of American Art

William Ely

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

John Sullivan

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

Mary Kimberly Thomas Reynolds

Reuben Moulthrop
Painting
c. 1788
Owner: American Folk Art Museum

William Strutt

James Sharples
Painting
1780-1811
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

John Paine

Winthrop Chandler
Painting
c. 1786
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Elizabeth Milward

Benjamin West
Painting
c. 1765-80
Owner: Philbrook Museum of Art

John Caldwell

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1780
Owner: City of Liverpool Museums

Catherine Harrison Murchie

John Durand
Painting
1782-90
Owner: Valentine Museum

Samuel Adams

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: Kenneth Rapoport
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

Augustin Dupre
Painting
c. 1789
Owner: U.S. Naval Academy

John Macpherson

John Trumbull
Drawing
1785?
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery
Mary Claypoole Peale

Mary Claypoole Peale

James Peale
Painting
1783
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Milcah Anne* Page

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-80
Owner: The Henry Ford
Winifred Striker and Sister, Ann Striker

Winifred Striker and Sister, Ann Striker

Ralph Earl
Painting
1787
Owner: The Butler Institute of American Art
Sarah Fishbourne Bordley

Sarah Fishbourne Bordley

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1788
Owner: Montclair Art Museum

Peter Labilliere

Henry Kingsbury
Painting
1780
Owner: National Portrait Gallery, London

Elizabeth Clarke Copley Greene

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1786
Owner: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Eliza Parke Custis

Eliza Parke Custis

Unidentified Artist
Painting
1785-1890
Owner: Virginia Museum of History and Culture

A Boston Gentleman

Christian Gullager
Painting
c. 1789
Owner: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

John Rogers

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780-1819
Owner: American Antiquarian Society

Dr. Hawes

James Sharples
Painting
1780-1811
Owner: City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

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