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Portrait of a Man

Painting
c. 1775
Owner: National Gallery of Art

David Hartley the Younger

James Walker
Print
1784
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings
Russell's American Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1790

Russell's American Almanack for the Year of our Redemption, 1790

Unidentified Artist
Print
c. 1779
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

George Washington

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1777
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Washington at the Battle of Princeton

Pierre Augustin Thomire
Painting
1780?
Owner: Union Club

Robert R. Livingston, Jr.

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: U.S. Department of State

John Adams

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1792-93
Owner: The White House

Albert Gallatin

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

George Washington

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Washington (Trenton type)

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1782
Owner: Private Collection

Roger Sherman

Ralph Earl
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Colonel Marinus Willett

Ralph Earl
Painting
c. 1791
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

James Madison

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Private collection

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Joseph Bowring
Painting
c. 1785
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

Robert Goldsborough Family

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
1789
Owner: Private Collection

Benjamin Franklin and Louis XVI

Lemire
Sculpture
c. 1785
Owner: Providence Athenaeum

Chancellor Robert R. Livingston

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

George Washington at the Battle of Trenton

John Trumbull
Painting
c. 1792-94
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Adams

John Trumbull
Painting
1787
Owner: Helen Clay Frick

Study for John Adams

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1783
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis XVI and Benjamin Franklin

Charles Gabriel Sauvage Lemire
Sculpture
1780-85
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut

James Peale
Painting
c. 1792
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

General Washington at Princeton

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: National Gallery of Art

Portrait de George Washington en Costume de Général Américain

Samuel King
Painting
c. 1775-83
Owner: Musée National de la Cooperation Franco-Américain du Château de Blérancourt

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    • United States. Army  512
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    • Washington, George  219
    • Stuart, Gilbert  165
    • Copley, John Singleton  142
    • Franklin, Benjamin  106
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    • Brown, Mather  43
    • Savage, Edward  39
    • Wright, Joseph  38
    • Benbridge, Henry  36
    • Jones, John Paul  36
    • Lafayette  35
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    • Du Simitiere, Pierre Eugene  31
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    • Dunkerley, Joseph  29
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    • Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de  27
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    • Moulthrop, Reuben  17
    • Multiple Portraits  17
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    • Wedgwood and Sons  17
    • Williams, William Joseph  16
    • Sansom, Joseph  15
    • Norman, John  14
    • Beardsley Limner  13
    • Chandler, Winthrop  13
    • Ellis, B. B.  13
    • Pratt, Matthew  13
    • Unidentified Group  13
    • Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis  13
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    • Ceracchi, Giuseppe  11
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    • Warren, Joseph  7
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    • 1800s  104
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    • 1840s  10
    • 1850s  12
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    • Paintings  2050
    • Miniatures  523
    • Exterior views  221
    • Sculpture  185
    • Drawings  176
    • Prints  165
    • Silhouettes  66
    • Medals  25
    • Maps  16
    • Decorative arts  9
    • Sheet music  7
    • Books  3
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