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Retrato de las señoritas Doña Juana y Doña Maria Josefa de Lafore Gay y Arce

Retrato de las señoritas Doña Juana y Doña Maria Josefa de Lafore Gay y Arce

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1775
Owner: Sr. Daniel Liebsohn

Unidentified Man

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1785
Owner: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution

Portrait of Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1792
Owner: Unknown Owner
Reverend Benjamin DuBois

Reverend Benjamin DuBois

Unidentified Artist
Painting
late 18th-early 19th century
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum

Lady Said to be Catherine Scott Brown

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1778
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver

Unidentified Artist
Silhouette
c. 1780-90
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Benjamin Ledyard

William Verstille
Painting
1780
Owner: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Captain Samuel Goldsbury

James Earl
Painting
1785-90
Owner: Janet L. Baker

Richard Yeadon

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Thomas Dering

Unidentified Artist
Drawing
c. 1775
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ebenezer Alden

Sarah Bushnell Perkins
Painting
c. 1794

John Eager Howard

Robert Edge Pine
Painting
1788
Owner: Chester County Historical Society
Mrs. William Woods

Mrs. William Woods

Charles Peale Polk
Painting
c. 1793
Owner: Cincinnati Art Museum
Letter from George Washington to Mrs. Penn regarding

Letter from George Washington to Mrs. Penn regarding "The Vision of Columbus"

Document
September 18, 1787
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barlow

Thomas Benbury

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Private Collection

Key to "The Sortie of the Garrison of Gibraltar"

John Trumbull
Drawing
1781
Owner: Yale University Art Gallery

Thomas Wigfall

Henry Benbridge
Painting
c. 1790
Owner: Gibbes Museum of Art

Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Second Earl of Moira and First Marquess of Hastings

Joshua Reynolds
Painting
1789-90
Owner: Royal Collection Trust

Captain John Linzee

George Chalmers
Painting
1782
Owner: Private collection
Josiah Barker

Josiah Barker

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Old Dartmouth Historical Society /New Bedford Whaling Museum
Jannetje Varlett Herrman

Jannetje Varlett Herrman

William Clarke
Painting
1788
Owner: Maryland Historical Society

Study for Charles I Demanding in the House of Commons the Five Impeached Members

John Singleton Copley
Drawing
1782-94
Owner: British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings

John Musters

Joshua Reynolds
Painting
1777-c. 1780
Owner: National Gallery of Art

William Laight

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: Museum of the City of New York

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