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Lafayette at Yorktown

Jean Baptiste Le Paon
Painting
c. 1783-85
Owner: Lafayette College

William Goddard

Benjamin Blyth
Painting
c. 1780-85
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Wright
Painting
after 1782
Owner: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Jacques Caffieri
Sculpture
c. 1777-90
Owner: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Jacques Caffieri
Sculpture
c. 1777-92
Owner: Detroit Institute of Arts

Benjamin Franklin

Charles Paul Jerome de Brea
Painting
c. 1780
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Sculpture
1776-96
Owner: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adolph Ulrich Wertmuller

Adolph Ulrich Wertmuller

Adolph Ulrich Wertmüller
Painting
c. 1775-90
Owner: Private Collection

Jacob* Graybell

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1775-95
George Washington

George Washington

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1776-90
Owner: Rhode Island Historical Society

Benjamin Franklin

Joseph Siffred Duplessis
Painting
c. 1780-c. 1790
Owner: R. W. Norton Art Gallery
Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Jacques Caffieri
Sculpture
c. 1777-90
Owner: Nantucket Historical Association
Jonah Barrington

Jonah Barrington

Gilbert Stuart
Painting
c. 1775-93
Owner: Indianapolis Museum of Art
George Washington

George Washington

Justus Chevillet
Print
c. 1775-90
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Sir Benjamin West

John Downman
Drawing
c. 1775-95
Owner: Musée du Louvre

Unidentified Man

Unidentified Artist
Painting
c. 1770-90
Unidentified Woman

Unidentified Woman

Letitia ("Hetty") Sage Benbridge
Painting
c. 1770-90
Owner: Private collection

Egbert Benson

John Trumbull
Painting
late 18th century
Owner: UNLOCATED

Samuel Powel

Angelica Kauffmann
Painting
c. 1770-90
Owner: Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture

Unidentified Man Formerly Alleged Robert McKean

James Peale
Painting
c. 1775-95
Owner: Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Timothy Matlack

Charles Willson Peale
Painting
c. 1780-90
Owner: Saint Louis Art Museum

Portrait of a Late 18th Century Man

Benjamin Blyth
Painting
late 18th century
Owner: Skinner, Inc.

Unidentified Man

John Singleton Copley
Painting
c. 1775-90
Owner: Yale Center for British Art
Mary Bringhurst Foulke

Mary Bringhurst Foulke

John Foulke
Painting
c. 1776-96
Owner: Germantown Historical Society

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    • United States. Army  16
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    • Peale, Charles Willson  9
    • Stuart, Gilbert  7
    • Caffieri, Jean Jacques  6
    • Washington, George  6
    • Benbridge, Henry  3
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    • Lafayette  3
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    • Wright, Joseph  3
    • Bounieu, Michel Honore  2
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    • Pratt, Matthew  2
    • Ramage, John  2
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    • Bisse  1
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    • Earl, Ralph  1
    • Foulke, John  1
    • Foulke, Mary Bringhurst  1
    • Fraunces, Samuel  1
    • Gaillard, John  1
    • Gaillard, Theodore  1
    • Glentworth, Elizabeth Graisbury  1
    • Glentworth, James  1
    • Goddard, William  1
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    • Greuze, Jean-Baptiste  1
    • Hesilrige, Robert  1
    • Hopkinson, Mary Johnson  1
    • Houdon, Jean-Antoine  1
    • Hughes, Washington  1
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    • Lafayette, James  1
    • Le Paon, Jean Baptiste  1
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    • Van Loo, Charles Amedee Philippe  1
    • Waterhouse, Benjamin  1
    • West, Elizabeth Shewell  1
    • Williams, Hannah Chandler  1
    • de Brea, Charles Paul Jerome  1
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    • Paintings  66
    • Miniatures  25
    • Sculpture  9
    • Exterior views  6
    • Drawings  3
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